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Memorial Day Parades In Oneonta, Cooperstown Oneonta’s Memorial Day parade begins at 10 a.m. and proceeds down Main Street to the Veterans’ Memorial at the end of the walkway in Neahwa Park, where a ceremony is planned. Cooperstown’s begins at 11 a.m., from the Vets’ Club up Main Street to the Soldiers & Sailors’ Monument in front of the county office building, where a ceremony is planned.…
COOPERSTOWN—Sophie Rogers, longtime Cooperstown resident, passed away peacefully in the early hours of April 13, 2024, at the Cooperstown Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, where she had been a patient for seven years.
Born June 20, 1926 to Polish immigrants Joseph and Anastasia Bryn, Sophie was the youngest of four daughters. She graduated from Richfield Springs Central School as salutatorian, furthering her education at Utica School of Commerce.…
Waite Hoyt enjoyed an astonishing run: signed at 15 to the New York Giants; three years as a teen in the rough-and-tumble minors; friend and teammate of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig; vaudeville star; undertaker; oil painter; recovering alcoholic; and beloved radio voice of the Cincinnati Reds.…
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…
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.…
In Memoriam Donald E. Howard Jr.1941-2024 COOPERSTOWN—Donald E. Howard Jr., formerly of Cooperstown, died on June 9, 2024 after a brief battle with liver cancer. 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.…
