Ethel Elmendorf.Here she is again as a young adult Probably at the time of her announcement of her marriage to Claude G. Palen of Marbletown. She was graduate of Kingston High and New Paltz Normal School. Ethel became a teacher after school on Long Island then later Marbletown school. She had been always active in the Church. Her wedding to Claude took place here at the home of her parents. Because of the illness of her grandmother the ceremony was kept private. For their honeymoon they toured in an automobile to upstate New York.. Upon their return the couple came to live in the Elmendorf Homestead here in Hurley.