B&B Owner Drowns As Car Runs Into Lake 2 Officers Injured In Rescue Attempt By LIBBY CUDMORE • The Freeman’s Journal & Hometown Oneonta COOPERSTOWN – It’s rare, but not unheard of, for a car to end up in a body of water, said Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. after last week’s fatal submersion off the boat ramp into Otsego Lake at the end of Fair Street. “Before I was sheriff, someone drove into the Susquehanna River,” he said. “They were…
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IN MEMORIAM John W. Smirk, Jr., 75; Cooperstown B&B Owner COOPERSTOWN – John W. Smirk Jr., 75, a Navy veteran, manager of New York City skyscapers, and proprietor of the Cooperstown B&B with his late wife Linda, died Thursday, April 11, 2019. Born Jan. 24, 1944, in Long Beach, Calif., John was the son of John W. and Elizabeth (Kirkbride) Smirk. He grew up in Brooklyn and spent summers in Greenwood Lake, N.J. It was there that John’s love of…
IN MEMORIAM: Linda Smirk, 66; Proprietor Of Cooperstown B&B COOPERSTOWN – Linda Graham Smirk, proprietor, with her husband, John, of the Cooperstown B&B on Chestnut Street for 17 years, passed away on Tuesday, March 22, 2016. She was 66. Born in Brooklyn on Sept. 30, 1949, Linda is the daughter of Robert Wesley and Ruth Waide Graham. After spending her early years in Brooklyn, Linda moved with her family to Cooperstown and graduated from Cooperstown Central School in 1967. She…