Obituaries on this page are listed by issue date.
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DECEMBER 21, 2016
Robert J. Heintz, 63, of Mesa, Ariz. and Clinton, died Dec. 3, 2016 at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, AZ.
Clair E Holt, 84, of Waterville, died Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016 at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Utica.
Joan L. Pavlot, 67, of Bridgewater, died Sunday, Dec. 11, 2016.
Helen G. Sykes, 92, of Oriskany Falls, died Friday, Dec. 9, 2016 at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Utica.
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DECEMBER 14, 2016
Mary G. Lloyd, 91, of Deansboro and Waterville, died Dec. 6, 2016.
Jane Pierson died at the Halifax Hospice in Port Orange, FL. Nov. 22, 2016.
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DECEMBER 7, 2016
Thomas E. Drake, 73, of Clark Mills, died Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, at his home.
Charles ‘Chuck’ Edgar Hearty, 84, of Clinton, died Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016 at St. Luke’s Healthcare Center, New Hartford.
Emily M. Phillips, of Franklin Springs, died Nov. 18, 2016 at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital.
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NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Janet E. Bridge, 75, of Deansboro, died Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016 at her home.
Mary Ellen Gates, 89, of Frankfort, died Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2016 at the home of her daughter, Mary, in Pennsylvania.
Betty J. Quinn, 83, of Madison, devoted mother and loving grandmother, died Wednesday, Nov. 16 at the Lutheran Home in Clinton.
Edward C. Windover, 82, of Waterville, died Friday, Nov. 18, 2016 at home.
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NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Janice Marie Loomis died Nov. 8, 2016.
Mary Hazelden Schmitt died in the morning Nov. 13.
Marie E. Sutherland, 96, of Morrisville and formerly of Madison, died Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, at Crouse Community Center.
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NOVEMBER 16, 2016
Susan H. Bishop, 93, of Clinton, died Nov. 10, 2016 at St. Elizabeth Medical Center.
Teresa B. Fuller, 89, of Oriskany Falls, died Nov. 5, 2016, at Waterville Residential Center.
Evelyn P. Paulson, 90, of Waterville, died Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 at her home.
Irene R. Schenk, 83, of Sherrill, died Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, at Faxton-St.Luke’s Medical Center.
William H. VanNort, 54, of Madison died Friday, Oct. 28, 2016 at his home.
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NOVEMBER 9, 2016
Raymond A. Lints, 60, of Deansboro, died Friday, Oct. 28, 2016 at the Waterville Rehabilitation and Nursing Center.
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
Gerard ‘Jerry’ Francis Semchenko, 66, of Clinton, died Oct. 22, 2016.
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OCTOBER 26, 2016
Calvin Coolidge Dickenson, 91, of Waterville, died Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, on his 68th wedding anniversary, at Waterville Residential Care Center (Harding Nursing Home).
Nancy Atkinson Pascoe, 69, died Oct. 18, 2016, in Bullhead City, Ariz.
Carol A. Moore Stockbridge, 85, of Waterville and formerly of Westmoreland, died at home Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016.
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OCTOBER 19, 2016
James N. ‘Jim’ Gwilt, 87, of Edmeston, died Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016 at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown.
Nancy Catherine Langone Michel, 87, of gulfport, Fla, died Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 at her home.
Albert Frederick ‘Fred’ Mosher, 95, of Clinton, died at home Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016.
Arlene C. Vivyan, 91, of Clinton, died at her home Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016.
Loretta L. Witter, 76, of Brookfield, died Oct. 12, 2016.
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OCTOBER 12, 2016
Fay H. Forward, 78, of Bouckville, died Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 at home.
Sewell Spaulding Morgan, 96, died at home on County Highway 18.
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OCTOBER 5, 2016
William E. ‘Bill’ Arthur, 89, of Sauquoit (Town of Paris) died Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016 at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Utica.
Robert F. ‘Brock’ Brockway, 87, a life resident of Oriskany Falls, died Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016, at the VA Medical Center, Syracuse.
Savanna Ruth Crane, 23, of Clinton, died at home Friday, Sept. 23, 2016.
Dorothy A. Kutzuba, 88, formerly of Waterville, died Sept. 26, 2016 at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany.
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016
Carol C. Gilley died on Monday, Sept. 19, 2016 at her home in Deansboro. She was 79.
Donald J. Hammond, 85, of Waterville, died Friday, Sept. 16, 2016 at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Utica.
Bradley J. Hungerford, 33, of Waterville, died Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016 at his home.
Allen J. Jaquays, 78, of Sherrill, a long-time Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Central School mathematics teacher, coach and pioneering computer science teacher, died Sept. 22, 2016.
Ralph O. ‘Otto’ Maine, Jr., 60, of Eaton, died Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016 at his home.
Leslie M. VonDauber, 68, of Earlville, died Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, at Bassett Medical Center.
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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016
Richard G. Gedney, Sr., 70, of Waterville, died Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016 at Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare in New Hartford.
Deacon Robert S. Riggalls, 78, of Waterville, died Friday, Sept. 2, 2016.
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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016
Mary Louise Willett Dempsey of Sherrill died Friday, Sept. 2, 2016.
Fredericka Hawkins Diable, 81, of New Hartford, died Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016.
Earl M. Foley, ‘Red’, 84, of Waterville, died Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016.
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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016
Hubert ‘Bert’ Eastman, 87, of Waterville, died Monday, Aug. 29, 2016 at Harding Nursing Home in Waterville.
Jon K. Martin of Bridgewater and Arizona, died at his home Aug. 17, 2016.
Shirley W. Sollinger, 93, died Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016 at Mesa Vista of Boulder, Co.
AUGUST 31, 2016
David Charles Barney, 79, of Waterville, died Aug. 26, 2016 at his home.
Eleanor Marie Bardello Damico, born in New York City April 10, 1939 to Joseph and Helen Bardello, died Aug. 21, 2016.
Nancy H. Ellis, 66, of Clinton, died Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016 at Harding Nursing Home.
Agatha ‘Aggie’ Mary Lloyd, 69, died Monday, August 8, 2016 at her home in Utica.
Deborah M. Paino, 58, of Waterville, died Sunday, Aug. 21, 2016 at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Utica.
Keith Dale Wright, 63, of Ocala, Fl, died Aug. 18, 2016 in Gainesville, Fla.
AUGUST 24, 2016
The Rev. John Roger Madden, a much loved Roman Catholic priest who came to question the Church’s teachings on several key issues, died Aug. 10, 2016 in Syracuse.
Robert C. Morse, 64, of Marcy, and formerly of the Sauquoit Valley, died Wednesday, July 27, 2016.
AUGUST 17, 2016
Dennis J. Risley, 52, of Deansboro, died at home Sunday, Aug. 7, 2016.
Mary Whitford Streit, nee Mary Lydia Whitford, of Jupiter, FL, and formerly of Bellmore and Brookfield, died July 13, 2016 at Hospice of Palm Beach County.
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AUGUST 10, 2016
Janet E. Blunt, 74, of Westmoreland, died Sunday, July 24, 2016 at her home.
Lawrence J. "Larry" Burns, 80, of New Hartford, died Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016 at the HPCI Siegenthaler Center after a long illness.
Richard Lloyd ‘Butch’ Legacy, 69, of Waterville, died Saturday, July 23, 2016 at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Utica.
Rita G. Miller, 92, of New Hartford, died at the Presbyterian Home for CNY July 29, 2016.
Gladys Moses, 97, of Gulfport, FL. died Monday, Aug. 1, 2016, at the Sieganthaler Center of Hospice Care in New Hartford.
Laura Bosworth Paige, 95, formerly of Oriskany Falls and Waterville, died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016 at the Masonic Care Community in Utica.
AUGUST 3, 2016
Mary Catherine Jones, 62, of Hamilton, died Sunday, July 24, 2016 at her home.
Lawrence F. ‘Lynn’ Pesto, 92 of Waterville, died Friday, July 22, 2016 at Harding Nursing Home.
Longtime professional horsewoman Jean Ann Raposa (Jeannie, Gram) died at Faxton-St. Luke’s Hospital July 22, 2016. She was 73.
Dorothy Waterman, 85, of Oriskany Falls, died at home July 26, 2016.
JULY 27, 2016
Glen James Hance died Monday, July 18, 2016 at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse.
Richard Harold Lloyd, 69, died July 15, 2016.
Jean Russell Ventrone, of Green Valley, AZ, died June 20, 2016.
JULY 20, 2016
Gertrude A. Cass, 81, of Bouckville, died Tuesday, July 5, 2016, at Oneida Healthcare’s Extended Care Center.
Francis Anna Howard Jipson, 95, died Friday, July 8, 2016 at Crouse Comm-unity Center in Morrisville.
Barbara Lee Neidhart, 66, of Waterville, died Friday, July 8, 2016 at her home.
JULY 13, 2016
Lawrence Wesley Andersen (Wes), 91, of Clifton Park, formerly of Saratoga Springs; Fort Myers, FL and Clinton, died Sunday, June 26, 2016.
Robert F. ‘Papa’ Harris, Sr., 84, of Waterville, died Friday, July 1, 2016.
JULY 6, 2016
John R. ‘Jack’ Youngs, 90, of Waterville, died Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at his home.
JUNE 29, 2016
Vincent Nicholas Cognetto Jr., 82, of New Hartford, died Wednesday, June 23, 2016, at his home.
Joanne Kilts Diehl, 53, of Oriskany Falls, died at home June 20, 2016.
Beverly Johnson Mundt (Bev), 88, of Boulder, CO died June 12, 2016.
Esther M. Ward, 90, lifelong Munnsville resident, died Thursday, June 16, 2016 at Harding Nursing Home.
JUNE 22, 2016
John R. ‘Jack’ Pughe, Jr., 63, of Waterville, died Saturday, June 11, 2016 at Bay Health Medical Center in Dover, DE.
JUNE 15, 2016
Marion Frazier Hynes, 74, of Morrisville, died at Crouse Hospital, Syracuse May 4, 2016.
JUNE 8, 2016
Lezime L. ‘Bill’ Furness, 86, of Sangerfield, died Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at his home.
Mary Bishop Steates Gurtowski, 89, longtime resident of Clinton, died June 2, 2016 at the Presbyterian Home.
Henry J. Lopata, 70, of Clinton, died Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, Utica.
JUNE 1, 2016
Margaret B. ‘Peggy’ Myers, 75, of Brookfield, died Wednesday, May 18, 2016, in her home.
Harry W. Smith, Jr., 18, of Madison, died Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at his home.
LaVerne R. Tallman, 92, of Pottsville, Ark., a longtime resident of Oriskany Falls, died May 16, 2016, at the home she shared with her daughter.
MAY 25, 2016
Lyle S. Kerr, 82, formerly of Sauquoit, died May 8, 2016 in Florida.
Ruth Manfredo, 93, died April 3, 2016.
Barbara L. Owens, of Clinton, died Tuesday, May 17, 2016.
Mary M. (Kloster) Stuttard, 69, of Clinton, died Monday, May 16, 2016 at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare Center, New Hartford.
Mary E. Wilson, 83, of Waterville, died Saturday, April 30, 2016 at Harding Nursing Home.
MAY 18, 2016
William ‘Will’ Thomas Bassett, Jr., 14, of Madison, died Thursday, May 5, 2016, at UHS Healthcare, Norwich.
Richard Norman Engle, 70, of Oriskany Falls, died Sunday, May 8, 2016 at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Utica.
Robert L. (Bobby) Kerr, 75, of New Hartford, died Friday, May 6, 2016, at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.
Eugene Kort, 77, a resident of Harding Nursing Home, Waterville, died Saturday, May 7, 2016.
MAY 11, 2016
Wilma M. Lawson, 90, of New Hartford, died May 1, 2016, at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.
MAY 4, 2016
Carol Marie Burdick, 81, died April 26, 2016.
APRIL 27, 2016
Carl W. Chapman, 83, of Jamesville, died April 21, 2016 at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Utica.
Helen Ruth Voll, 94, of Waterville, died Friday, April 15, 2016 at Lutheran Home in Clinton.
APRIL 20, 2016
K. James Ford, 83, of Clinton, died Friday, April 8, 2016 at Crouse Hospital Syracuse.
John J. Wandle, 77, of Clinton, died Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at Harding Nursing Home.
APRIL 13, 2016
Brenda L. Griffiths, 70, of Sherburne, died Saturday, April 2, 2016 at her home.
Laura D. Schindler, 89, of Knoxboro died April 6, 2016 at her home.
Lesley (Scofield) Wood, of Conklin died Friday, Feb. 26, 2016.
APRIL 6, 2016
Sandra J. Davis, 72, of Hubbardsville, died Saturday, March 26, 2016 at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare, New Hartford.
Patricia M. Dugan, 91, formerly of Clinton, died March 31, 2016, at Acacia Village, where she had lived for the past 18 months.
Ethel Howard Schaffer, 82, of Clinton, died March 28, 2016.
Jeffrey M. Schenk, 35, of Hubbardsville, died Wednesday, March 23, 2016 at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse.
Linda J. Sciarretta, 62, of Waterville, died Saturday, March 26, 2016 at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare in New Hartford.
Kathy J. Tompkins, 59, of Hamilton, died Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare Center.
MARCH 30, 2016
Marie L. Bocko, formerly of Deansboro, died at Harding Nursing Home Tuesday, March 22, 2016.
Clare Elizabeth Gaffney, 90, of Syracuse died March 15, 2016.
Jon J. Jacobson, 56, of Waterville, died Monday, March 21, 2016.
Marjorie T. Kervin, 88, a lifelong resident of Clinton, died at Harding Nursing Home March 17, 2016.
Michael L. Natale, 86, of Sauquoit, died Wednesday March 23, 2016 at Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare.
Douglas G. McIntyre Sr. of Preston, Ct. died March 3, 2016 at the age of 87 at his home.
MARCH 23, 2016
David T. Crandall, 61, of Brookfield, died Monday, Feb. 29, 2016 at the Siegenthaler Center.
Mary M. Fallon, 80, of New Jersey, died March 7, 2016 at Bayshore Community Hospital in Holmdel.
Louise M. Isbell, 84, of West Eaton and West Winfield, died March 16, 2016 at Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare in New Hartford.
Wilma Jean (Foster) Ostinett died Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at LutheranCare.
Clesson Myron Smith, 84, of Munnsville died Saturday, March 12, 2016.
Linda M. Wheeler, 57, of Clinton and formerly of Sauquoit died Monday, March 14, 2016 at home.
John F. Zinkovitch, Sr., 53, of Herkimer, died at home Saturday, March 12, 2016.
MARCH 16, 2016
Lindy L. Morgan, 87, of Eaton, died Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at Harding Nursing Home in Waterville where he had been a resident since 2011.
Ann Staley, 87, died at Bangor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Bangor, Me. March 4, 2016.
MARCH 9, 2016
Pamela M. (Schuessler) Cutway, 57, of Hubbardsville, died Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at her home.
MARCH 2, 2016
Stuart S. Anderson, 60, of Deansboro, died Feb. 19, 2016.
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
Dorothy Ann Fradenburgh Ingalls, 81, of Oriskany Falls, died Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2016 at St. Elizabeth Medical in Utica.
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
John Backo, born and raised in Binghamton, died Monday, Feb. 8, 2016 at the age of 76.
Susan “Suzy” M. Brackett, 59, of North Syracuse, died Feb. 10, 2016.
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
Anneliese ‘Anne’ Hoch Castellucci died Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016.
Robert F. DeTraglia, 49, of Waterville, died at home Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016.
Janice M. Durant, 74, of Waterville, died Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016 at her home.
Arthur F. Wheeler, 72, of Marcy, and formerly of Sauquoit, died Friday, Jan. 29, 2016.
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Florence Williams, 95, of Waterville, died Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016.
JANUARY 27, 2016
Suzanne McGowan, 63, of Rome, died Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016 at her home.
Kelli Sue Putnam, 28, of Charlotte, N.C. and formerly of Hubbardsville, died Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016.
JANUARY 20, 2016
Betty Elsenbeck, 86, of Clinton, died Jan. 10, 2016 at St. Elizabeth Medical Center.
Michael J. Hotaling, 71, of Hubbardsville, died Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016 at his home.
Margaret Ingalls, 89, of Oriskany Falls, died Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016 at her home.
Jean Covey Rogers, 75, of Clinton, died at home Friday, Jan. 8, 2016.
JANUARY 13, 2016
Henry (Hank) Deloss Gardner Jr., 80, of Buffalo Junction, Va., died Monday, Nov. 23, 2015.
Graham R. King, 73, of Clinton and formerly of Totton, England, died Jan. 2, 2016.
Dorine I. Larmon, 100, of Oriskany Falls, died on her husband’s birthday, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, at Community Memorial Hospital in Hamilton.
Ella I. Tallman, 85, of Eaton, died Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016 at Faxton-St. Luke’s Health Center in New Hartford.
Linda Grantier Van Dixon died Jan. 4, 2016 at home.
JANUARY 6, 2016
William Burns Sr., 90, died Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015 at Lutheran Care.
Harry F. Cresswell died Jan. 1, 2016 at St. Elizabeth Medical Center.
Bonita ‘Bonnie’ Elaine Culver, 68, of Daytona Beach, Fla., died Dec. 28, 2015.
Alice M. Cushman, 74, of Waterville, died Monday, Dec. 21, 2015 at Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare in New Hartford.
Donald R. Miner, Sr., 79, of Hubbardsville, died Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015 at Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown.
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