BRENDA L. UTTER, 63, MORRIS
1st Coronavirus Victim
Is Fondly Recalled As
'Good, Kindhearted'
By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
MORRIS – Just a few months ago, Brenda Utter celebrated surviving breast cancer for 5 years.
“She was so ecstatic about making it,” her husband of 44 years, Phillip Utter, said Monday, March 30, just four days after she died of COVID-19.
Brenda Utter, of Morris, was the first person in Otsego County to die of the virus, which had taken 3,578 lives nationally and 1,500 in New York State as of early this week.
In an interview, Phillip Utter said he was still in shock. The illness took his wife within about a week of her first signs of sickness, he said.