IN MEMORIAM: Al O’Brien, 84; Proprietor Of Cooperstown Motel COOPERSTOWN – Albert K. O’Brien, 84, proprietor of the Cooperstown Motel, died Oct. 23, 2015, after a long battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable adult inherited infirmity. He was born Feb. 12, 1931, in the Methodist-Episcopal Hospital in New York City. He was raised in Springfield Center in the family’s four generation home as well as in several different sections of New York City. While attending high school as a…