OHS ALUMNI WEEKEND 2018 Annual Gathering Starts At Oneonta Country Club Some 135 OHS Alumni, top, pose on the Oneonta Country Club’s putting green before this morning’s start of the annual Alumni Golf Tournament, which begins the annual weekend of reunion celebrations. Players have a chance to win loads of prizes including a 2019 Chevy Cruze if they get a hole-in-one! At right, as the sun comes out, Jim Sandoli, ’63, lines up a shot as son Jim Jr., ’02,…
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IN MEMORIAM: Edward J. Rood, 73; Hartwick Town Road Superintendent HARTWICK – The funeral is Friday for Edward J. Rood, 73, former Town of Hartwick highway superintendent, who passed away peacefully at his home surrounded by his loving family on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018. He was born in New Hartford on July 8, 1945, the son of the late Robert Rood Sr and Florence (Mykel) Rood. He married Linda (Armstrong) Rood on Sept. 14, 1968 at the Baptist church in…
IN MEMORIAM Pastor Jeff McLallen, 74; Served In So. Edmeston SOUTH EDMESTON – Pastor John “Jeff” Fritz McLallen, 74, pastor of South Edmeston Community Church for the past 23 years, went home to be with the Lord on Monday Oct. 1, 2018, at his home here. Jeff was born on June 19, 1944 in Phoenix, Ariz., the son of the late Clarence and Ruth Schoonover McLallen. Jeff was a graduate of East High School in Rochester, Roberts Wesleyan College in…
IN MEMORIAM Dorothy ‘Dot’ Smith, 79; Ran Spurbeck’s For 20 Years COOPERSTOWN – Dorothy Marie Vidosić Smith, 79, an accomplished painter and the matriarch of Spurbeck’s Grocery for 20 years, passed from this life on Saturday, Sept. 29. She was born in Atlanta, Ga. on May 5, 1939, the daughter of Joseph Paul Vidosić and Martha Marie Van den Bulck. She attended Georgia Tech and graduated in 1961. On June 16, 1961, she married Roger Smith, and in 1963, they…
Ahead of Athletic Hall Induction, GOHS Honors Carl Delberta…
IN MEMORIAM: Robert W. Huddleston, 87; Career Diplomat To Be Buried In Roseboom ROSEBOOM – Robert Webb Huddleston, 87, a career diplomat who summered here when a teenager with his maternal grandmother, Inez E. Webb, passed away Sept. 11, 2018, in Santa Fe, N.M. A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, in Roseboom Cemetery, with the Rev. Elsie A. Rhodes, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown, officiating. Military honors will be accorded by members…
IN MEMORIAM Maj. Norma Jean Hager, 77; Retired From Salvation Army Since, She Knitted 453 Afghans For Bassett Newborns MILFORD – Maj. Norma Jean Hager, who retired from the Salvation Army after a four-decade career, was promoted to glory on Sept. 18, 2018, in Milford, where she had retired. She was the daughter of Charles & Charlotte (Stilson) Cargill born on Dec. 31, 1940, in Oneonta. Norma attended school in Oneonta and graduated from OHS in June of 1959. In…
Woman Presidential Candidate’s Ephemera Displayed Day-Long Celebration Planned On Museums’ Research Library COOPERSTOWN – A full day of programming, including an introduction of the ephemera collection of Belva Lockwood, first woman to run for president of the United States, is planned Saturday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of Research Library building at The Fenimore & Farmers’ Museums. The daylong open house at the former NYSHA library will include a keynote by retired Library Director Wayne Wright of…
Animal Rescue Saves Dogs From Florence 2 Due To Arrive In Oneonta Saturday SIDNEY – Today, Sidney’s Pibbles & More Animal Rescue (PMAR) announced a partnership with a North Carolina animal shelter that needs to evacuate shelter animals due to impending Hurricane Florence. Saturday, two of the four dogs, Allie and Hobbs, will arrive in New York. They will welcomed by volunteer foster care homes in the Oneonta area. Allie and Hobbs will stay with their foster homes where they…
IN MEMORIAM: Anne Cole, 71, Oneonta; Fox Director Of Materials Management EAST MEREDITH – L. Anne Cole, 71, an Oneonta native and Fox Hospital department head, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018, at her home in East Meredith, surrounded by family. She was born on July 19, 1947, in Oneonta, the daughter of Charles and Lois (Keathley) Bubnell. Anne was employed for more than 30 years at Fox Hospital, starting in the payroll department and worked her way up to…