Patrick Ryan Dunnion, a lifelong area resident, entered into eternal rest at the age of 22. He was born April 10, 2003 at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown. He graduated from Milford Central School and then worked in construction, a job he truly liked and excelled at. Patrick will be remembered for being a very kind person who had an incredible sense of humor. He will be greatly missed by many schoolmates and the friends he made during his brief life.…
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Long-time Cooperstown resident Ann Davis Wager died on March 18, 2025 in a care facility in Pasadena, California from complications of dementia. Ann Davis was born on February 5, 1935 in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania to Frederick Donald Davis and Gertrude (Flowers) Davis. Her father’s work in poultry management and research took the family around the country. Ann graduated high school in Birmingham, Alabama in 1953, and attended Alabama Junior College for Women for one year. When her family moved to San…
Polly Renckens passed away peacefully on Monday, June 2, surrounded by her loving children. She was 81. Born in Syracuse, New York, Polly was the third of four children of Helen and Ray Parrott. A graduate of SUNY Fredonia and Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, she met and married the love of her life, Jim Renckens. Together they raised three children and built community wherever they lived—from running the Hickory Grove Inn in Cooperstown to founding cherished institutions like the Cooperstown…
Sylva Christine Jenkins, 76, of Edmeston passed away on Sunday, May 25, 2025 in Oneonta, New York. Christine was born on August 11, 1948 in Oneonta, New York, the daughter of the late Frederick F. and Sylva J. (Howland) Emhof.…
Mary E Dunkle passed away peacefully on May 23, 2025, just shy of her 96th birthday. She was born on May 30, 1929 to Kenneth Edwards and Mildred Gregg Edwards in Sussex, New Jersey. When Mary turned one, they moved to manage a family farm in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Damascus High School and then from East Stroudsburg State University and became a teacher.…
Marlene J. “Lee” Malone, a longtime Cooperstown resident who was actively involved in many aspects of village life as a business owner and dedicated public servant, passed away Friday evening, May 23, 2025, at Cooperstown Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing. She was 93.…
A funeral service for Constance Wood, who passed away February 12, 2025, will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 31, 2025 at St. James Episcopal Church, 305 Main Street, Oneonta, New York. She was born on May 16, 1931.…
It is with great sadness that we announce that Doris Marie Howard, 88, died on December 3, 2024 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, Doris was the daughter of the late August and Lillian Osterhoudt Eitzen. Doris was raised in Hyde Park, New York and was a graduate of F.D. Roosevelt High School, where she was active in the New York “Yorker Club,” Glee Club, school band and was a pianist for both clubs. She was a graduate of Hartwick College with a bachelor of science in nursing and attended graduate…
Mary Louisa (Cloon) Friedlander passed away peacefully on April 29, 2025 at Little Falls (New York) Hospital Comfort Care, following a brief illness. Mary Lou was born on May 15, 1933 in Ironwood, Michigan to the late Mary Louisa (King) and William Gabriel Cloon, and was very proud of her childhood in the UP. After graduating from Northwestern University and Chicago Wesley Memorial School of Nursing in 1955, Mary Lou worked as a clinical nurse at Chicago Lying-in Hospital, where…
John J. Posh Sr., 80, of Burlington Flats, passed away peacefully on Monday, May 5, 2025 at Chase Memorial Nursing Home in New Berlin, New York. Born on March 18, 1945 in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, New York, John was the son of the late Walter and Claire Anne (Mortimer) Posh. After graduating from Edmeston Central School in 1963, he proudly served in the United States Army from 1963-1969, showing unwavering dedication to his country as a Vietnam…
