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Fran MacEachron, Hastings' First Female Mayor, Dies At Home In Sleepy Hollow
The woman who served as Hastings-on-Hudson's first female mayor has died.
Frances DePuydt MacEachron, mayor of Hastings-on-Hudson from 1980 to 1992, died on Thursday, Aug. 8 at her home in Sleepy Hollow. She was 94.
From 1968 to 1976, she was a member of the Hastings Board of Education, and for two years its president. She had also been active in the Hastings PTA, the Lyndhurst Board, and the Westchester Community College Foundation Board.
A gifted soprano, she sang in the Grace Episcopal Church choir in White Plains, for nearly 30 years, says the obituary.
MacEachron was born in De…
