In Memoriam Mary Teresa Leary, 94 December 31, 1927 – August 28, 2022 COOPERSTOWN – Mary Teresa Leary, 94, resident of Monroe County, was taken by the Lord on Sunday, August 28, 2022, in Rochester. Mary was born on December 31, 1927, in Niagara Falls to Joseph David and Agnes Gertrude Maher. Mary graduated from Nazareth College of Rochester with a nursing degree and worked as a nurse. She married Dr. Herbert J. Leary in Lyons Falls in 1952, and…
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In Memoriam Jean Smullens, 86 August 8, 1935 – November 24, 2021 COOPERSTOWN – Jean Smullens, “Grandma Jean”, 86, passed away peacefully at home in the company of her children late Wednesday night, November 24, 2021. The youngest of three, Jean was born on August 8, 1935, to Walter and Elizabeth (Martzloff) O’Connell in Lowville. She graduated from Lowville Academy and Central School in 1953, where her parents were both teachers. She attended Albany Medical Center School of Nursing, where…
IN APPRECIATION Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Delong 1922-2019 COOPERSTOWN – Mary Elizabeth (Betty) DeLong, who just finishing up her 96th year, has passed away. Born in Bloomsburg, Pa., on May 1, 1922, an only child of Catharine Mason and H. Boyd Hagenbuch, she married Don DeLong and then began her travels around the country with her three children, Doug, Devon and Brian, settling in Silver Spring, Md. She moved to Cooperstown in 2014 to live very happily at the Clara Welch…
IN MEMORIAM: Caroline Sarafin, 74; Farmers’ Wife Active In Richfield Life RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Caroline A. Sarafin, 74, who retired from farming into an active role in community life, passed away peacefully on Wednesday morning Nov. 21, 2018, at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home in Cooperstown. She was born on July 15, 1944 in Herkimer, daughter to the late Frank and Eleanor Kroll. Caroline was raised and educated in Richfield Springs, graduating from Richfield Springs Central School, Class of 1962.…
IN MEMORIAM John Willies Jr., 94; Father, Banker, Friend To Mankind COOPERSTOWN – John Willies Jr., formerly of West Orange, N.J., and most recently The Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home passed peacefully from this life to the next on March 12, 2018. He was 94. He was a much-loved only child, husband, father, uncle, grandpa, great-grandpa and dear friend to many. Born June 28, 1923, in Newark, he was the son of the late John and Helen M. (Burnett) Willies of…
IN MEMORIAM: Ruth Swart, 95, Golfer In N.J.; Thanksgiving Home Resident COOPERSTOWN – Ruth Louise Swart, 95, of Tryon, N.C., an avid and talented golfer in her younger years who later resided at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home, passed away peacefully on Sunday morning Sept. 3, 2017. Born in Orange, N.J., and raised in Hackensack, Ruth was the daughter of Herman Edward Martini and Edith Elizabeth Arliss.…