All Obituaries

Delanson_ Gail C. Dykeman, 73, of Salsburg Road passed away peacefully at home on September 14, 2017 surrounded by her beloved family. Gail was born on December 6, 1943. A daughter of the late Edward and Carole Belden Sizter. She was married to her beloved husband, David A. Dykeman for 49 years. She retired from Northeast Parent and Child Society as an Intake Case Aide in 2006 and then again as a secretary in 2011. She had also previous worked for Albany DMV...

  Princetown- Dorothy Ellen “Dori” Doucet, passed away on September 7, 2017, after a long, hard fought battle with brain cancer; she was 59. During her illness, Dori kept a positive attitude as she did with many aspects of her life. Dori was born on July 22, 1958, a daughter of the late Malcolm A. Wilber and Janice M. Hill. She was a graduate of Duanesburg High School and continued her education and received an Associate’s Degree from...

East Durham -Earl D. Vincent, 60, formerly of Duanesburg passed away peacefully on August 26, 2017 at home.  He was born in Niskayuna in 1957 a son of the late Orrin and Esther Knowles Vincent. Earl was a graduate of Duanesburg and a graduate of Clarkson University where he received a Bachelors in Accounting. He was retired from the State of New York for 38 years as Medicare Medicaid Auditor. Earl was an avid NASCAR fan, loved camping, fishing...

Delanson- Elinor G. (Tryon) Beveridge, died at Capital Living Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Schenectady  NY ,  on July 29, 2017 surrounded by her  loving family. Elinor was born in Niskayuna NY on July 25, 1919, the daughter of the late Margaret O’Brien and Roscoe Tryon. Ellie was a graduate of Nott Terrace High School and worked at General Electric before her marriage. She was a communicant of Our Lady of Fatima Church in ...

Barbara Dennison Munson, 89, died on July 4, 2017 from injuries sustained in a fall. She had just returned home after 10 months in a rehabilitation facility recuperating from a broken leg.  Barbara was born on November 22, 1927 in Bradford, England and still maintained her British citizenship. She was an only child. She received her teacher's certificate from Clapham and Streatham Training College in London  after WWII and began her teaching career at Burwell,...

Frostproof  Florida- Harvey A. Swart, 92, passed away peacefully at his home on June 8, 2017 . He was a longtime resident of Frostproof Florida after he and his wife retired there from Schenectady NY. Harvey was born on August 10, 1924 in Duanesburg NY , a son of the late Arthur and Luetta Coton Swart. He was a graduate of Draper High School Schenectady. He also was a graduate of and was a financial contributor to the New York State School of Agriculture SUNY...

Seymour (Seiko a.k.a. “Koos”) VanderVeen, died amidst an enormous embrace of love and prayers from his family & many friends on Saturday, July 8th ending a long & full life spanning 80 years (or “four-score,” as he liked to say.)  Seymour was born in Marum, Groningen of the Netherlands as the third child of Fokko & Pietreke VanderVeen on December 4, 1936.  Through the hard & lean years of the Nazi occupation and the many hardships that followed, his parents...

Duanesburg- Janet P. Ottendorf, 64, passed away at Ellis Hospital on Saturday June 17, 2017 surrounded by her family and friends. She was born in Schenectady on June 26, 1952 daughter of the late David and Theresa (O’Leary) Fisher. She attended Draper High School in Rotterdam, NY until 1969 when the family moved to Williamstown, MA where she was a 1970 graduate of Mt. Greylock Regional High School. Janet was employed by the State of New York in the Corporations Division, and then...

Delanson- Beatrice Konwisarz-Smith, of Rotterdam and formerly of Duanesburg passed away on Sunday June 11, 2017 at home surrounded by her family. She was born in Manhattan, NYC on April 19, 1921 the daughter of the late Anthony and Jenny Lacko Basile. She was educated in the NYC school system. Beatrice came to the local area in 1969.  She owned and operated Kathy’s Restaurant and Motel on Route 20, Duanesburg until 2001 when she retired and moved to Rotterdam. Betty...

Fort Edward- Arline  Phillips Warwavesyn Miller , formerly of Rotterdam, passed away at the Fort Hudson Nursing Home in Fort Edward on June 10, 2017. She was born in Edwardsville Pa on January 23, 1924 a  daughter of the late John and Bertha Wytanis Phillips. After graduating Edwardsville H.S. in 1941 ,Arline moved to Queens NY where she met and married on November 14, 1942 her first husband Peter Warwavesyn who died on April 26 ,1975. They moved to Quaker Street in the...