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Natural Burial Gaining Countywide Interest

Natural Burial Gaining Countywide Interest By Darla M. Youngs During my father’s last hospital stay, as he was being treated for lung cancer that had spread to the brain, an attending physician asked him, “What’s your life’s plan?” The doctor wanted to talk about brain surgery, and Dad was having none of it. “What’s my life’s plan?” he replied. “Pushing up daisies, that’s my life’s plan.” This was in the spring of 2006, and my father died shortly after. Since…

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Family & Friends Bid Farewell To Bud Pirone

FUNERAL AT BELDEN AUDITORIUM Family, Friends Bid Farewell To Bud Pirone Friends, family, colleagues and students filled the Belden Auditorium at Oneonta High School this afternoon where a service was held celebrating the life of William “Bud” Pirone, a beloved teacher, OHS principal and coach, who passed away on Jan. 13 at age 80. Retired Methodist minister Dick Breuninger gave the sermon, remarking, “If Dick saw paradise as a walk in the woods on a golden afternoon, the best way…

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Memoriam: Gladys ‘Nicky’ Smith, 91; ‘Mom’ To Many Sang Daily

Gladys ‘Nicky’ Smith, 91; ‘Mom’ To Many Sang Daily RICHFIELD SPRINGS – Gladys E. “Nicky” Smith, 91, died Monday, March 18, 2019 at Cooperstown Center surrounded by her loving family. Born May 14, 1927, in Bridgewater, she was raised and lived most of her life in the Bridgewater, Sauquoit, Clayville and Van Hornsville area. She married Leland Smith in December 1944.…