RICHFIELD SPRINGS—Jim Renckens, beloved husband, father and friend, died surrounded by his family on Sunday, July 13. He was stricken by a fast-moving cancer. Jim was well-known for his caring and humorous personality and will be missed by all who knew him.
Born in 1940 in Dunkirk, New York, Jim attended St. Mary’s Catholic School and Fredonia State College, where he met the love of his life, Polly. They married in 1968 and shortly thereafter visited Cooperstown, where they fell in…