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IN MEMORIAM:  Kellie Place, Realtor,

Arts Supporter, Town Planning Chair

Updated 1/21/15 10:38am

Kellie Place
Kellie Place

ONEONTA – Kellie Place, a realtor with Century 21 and civic leader, serving as CANO board member and longtime chair of the Town of Oneonta Planning Board, died Sunday, Jan. 18, of complications from pneumonia.

Arrangements are incomplete at this hour.  For full obituary, see this week’s Hometown Oneonta, on newsstands Wednesday afternoon.

She served as the co-founder and director of administration of the  New York Summer Music Festival at SUNY Oneonta, as well as the vice president of the CANO Art Gallery.  After Mayor Miller’s arts summit in 2011, she was named to lead a task force to seek collaborations among city arts groups.

For more than 30 years, she was also chairperson of the Town of Oneonta Planning Board.  She was deputy chair of the town’s Board of Fire Commissioners, and recently was elevated to chair.

Visiting hours will be held 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 22 at Burgess & Tedesco Funeral Homes, Inc., 25 Broad St. in her native Hamilton.  The funeral service will follow at 1 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church, 16 Wylie St., Hamilton, with Fr. Richard Dunn officiating.  Interment will be in St. Joseph’s Cemetery, Utica.

 

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