ROME - Margaret K. " Maggie " Mattis, 80, formerly of New Bremen and Deer River, died on Thursday evening, June 23, 2011 at Walsh ICF, Cypress Street, where she has resided since 2003. Maggie was born in the town of New Bremen on August 18, 1930, the daughter of the late George Arthur and Frances Bailey Mattis. She attended District # 4 rural school on the Mattis Road. She lived with her parents on the family farm on the Mattis Road until her parents retired and moved to Park Avenue in Lowville. She then lived with her care taker Sue Croniser in Deer River until she moved to Rome where she resided at Wheeler IRA. She moved to Walsh ICF in 2003. Maggie enjoyed taken day trips and attended day care while in Rome. When she was younger she was a communicant of St. Peter's Catholic Church, New Bremen, and later at St. Stephen's Catholic Church, Croghan. Surviving are her brother and sister-in-law, Clifford and Sue Mattis of Copenhagen; a sister and brother-in-law, Shirley and Stanley Bush of North Carolina; a sister-in-law, Alice Mattis Jardine of Arizona; several nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her brother Richard J. Mattis. A funeral mass will be said on Monday, June 27, 2011 at 2:00pm at St. Peter's Oratory in New Bremen with Rev. Daniel Chapin, pastor, officiating. A prayer service for family and friends will be held at 1:00pm on Monday at the Sundquist Funeral Home, Lowville. Burial will follow in St. Peter's church cemetery. Memorials in Maggie's memory may be made to Friends of Lewis County Hospice, Inc., P.O. Box 266, Lowville, NY 13367.