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NORFOLK, NE— Christine Nielsen of Norfolk, Nebraska passed away on June 22, 2024. She was born in Wanakena, New York on February 27, 1947, the daughter of Arthur and Kathryn (Colton) Nielsen.
A graduate of nursing school, Chris worked as a nurse in New York State. After a time, she moved to Florida, where she worked in various areas involving medicine and health care.…
HARTWICK—Rev. Evelina Fuller Lincoln, 75, a spiritual counselor, pastor, and storyteller, passed into eternal rest on June 17, 2024 at A.O. Fox Nursing Home in Oneonta, with family by her side.
Born December 27, 1948 in Cooperstown, Evelina Ethel Fuller was the eldest daughter of Henry Eugene and Amelia Rosamond (Huestis) Fuller. Raised in Hartwick in the family home on East Main Street, she attended Cooperstown Central School, graduating with the Class of 1966. She received an associate’s degree from Mohawk…
Peter J. Tavarone passed away at home on June 13, 2024. He was born on September 19, 1947 in Suffern, New York to Peter and Waiva (Townsend) Tavarone.
Peter drove school bus for Oneonta City Schools for 33 years. He loved hunting and flying RC model helicopters and planes. He was a member of the Maryland RC Flyers Club.…
ONEONTA—Ramona Ann Harlem, of Oneonta, New York, passed away on June 4, 2024 at The Pines of Sarasota, Florida. She was born on in September 1928 in Peru, New York to Herwood and Lauretta (Pat) Prevost.
Ramona graduated from St. Mary’s Academy in 1945. Then, she entered nursing school as a cadet nurse in the fall of 1945, graduating in 1948 from Champlain Valley Hospital School of Nursing. In the 1970s, she returned to college and earned her bachelor’s in nursing.…
ONEONTA—Bernice L. “Berni” Nonenmacher, 97, of Oneonta and formerly of Edmeston, passed away unexpectedly on June 4, 2024 in Oneonta, New York.
Bernice was born on February 23, 1927 in Oak Park, Illinois, the daughter of the late Elbert W. and Eleanor F. (Hicks) Larson. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Robert K. Nonenmacher, on September 24, 2022, a daughter, Bobbi Stensland, and her brothers, Leon and Dan Larson.…
BLOOMVILLE—Victor C. Carpenter of Bloomville, New York passed away on June 7, 2024 at Albany Medical Center. Victor was born on December 15, 1961 in Valhalla, New York to Don and Marion Carpenter.
A graduate of Valhalla High School, he was employed by Corning Inc., SUNY Delhi and BOCES at Walton Central School. He was a longtime member and vice president of the Oneonta Sportmen’s Club.…
Don was born in Albany on July 11, 1941, to Donald E. Howard and Ruth Frisbie Howard. He grew up in Schoharie and graduated from Schoharie Central School in 1959. In high school he was a soccer goalie, played basketball and ran track, helping the school win its first team county track title in 1959.…
RALEIGH, NC—John Owen Jr., 64, of Raleigh, North Carolina passed away on Thursday, May 9, 2024 surrounded by family. John was born on January 4, 1960 in Rockville Centre, New York. John spent his childhood on Long Island and in Cooperstown, New York with his siblings and parents.
He graduated from Syracuse University in May 1982 to begin his nearly 40-year career in the cable industry. John cherished his work and made many lifelong friends through his professional pursuits.…
ONEONTA—Celeste Brown Thomas, retired “New York Times” staff editor and Oneonta, New York native, passed away June 20, 2020 in Rochester, New York of complications from uterine serous cancer. She was 61.
She had been treated for the disease, a rare and aggressive cancer, at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and Rochester since May 2017. She died surrounded by family, having been under hospice care at home for several weeks.…
EDMESTON—Marian Lucelia Sprague Pylinski, 90, passed away on April 25, 2024 at Brookview Assisted Living at The Woodland Neighborhood Community in Farmville, Virginia. She was born August 5, 1933 in Woods Corners, New York, the daughter of Mildred Lucelia Chase Sprague and Laurence Reginald Sprague.
She attended her early years of elementary school in Woods Corners, New York until her parents moved the family to New Berlin. She graduated from New Berlin Central School in 1951 and that same summer married…