Obituaries on this page are listed by issue date.
DECEMBER 20, 2017
Lester Murray Cleveland, 78, of Hamilton, died Monday, Dec. 11, 2017 at Community Memorial Hospital in Hamilton.
Marjorie Jane Hammerle, 87, died at 4:31 in the morning Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017 in Boerne, Texas.
Nathan Meyer Jr, 87, of Clinton, died Dec. 14, 2017 at St. Elizabeth Medical Center.
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DECEMBER 13, 2017
On Nov. 30, 2017 at St. Luke’s Hospital, Marco Polo Araujo of Clinton died.
Geoffrey S. Lane, 44, of Clinton, died Tuesday, December 5, 2017 at Faxton-St. Luke’s Health Care Center in New Hartford.
DECEMBER 6, 2017
Esther R. Delaney, 88, lifelong resident of Clinton, died Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017.Fay E. Dye, Sr., 73, of Brookfield, died at his home Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017.
Ralph O. Maine, Sr., 83, a life resident of the Town of Brookfield, died on Thanksgiving evening, Nov. 23, 2017, at Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare Center.
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NOVEMBER 29, 2017
Esther R. Delaney, 88, lifelong resident of Clinton, died Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017.
Patricia Ann Rifenburg Utter, 78, of Eaton, died Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017, at her home.
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NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Fredrick C. Blunt, 74, of Madison, died Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017 at Hamilton’s Community Memorial Hospital.
Robert T. Garrett, 91, of Waterville and The Villages, FL, died Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017.
Richard L. Palaski, 73, of Oriskany Falls, died Friday, Nov. 10, 2017 at Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare Center, New Hartford.
Samuel F. Pellman of Clinton died Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017.
Eleanor F. Rashford, 90, of Clinton, died Nov. 16, 2017 at Waterville Residential Care Center.
James (Jimmy) A. Welch of Oriskany Falls died Nov. 11, 2017.
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NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Adele Chernoff Halligan of Sangerfield died in Fruitland, MD Oct. 31, 2017. Born Adele Kay in 1925, she lived a full life of 92 years.
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NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Mary Alteri Evans, of Clinton, died Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017.
Michael H. Liddle, 35, died Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017, at Upstate Medical Center.
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OCTOBER 25, 2017
Richard F. Blau, 84, of Minoa, died Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017.
Marylou Friers, 75, a resident of the Waterville Residential Care Center, formerly of Oriskany Falls, died Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017 at the home.
Lorraine F. Gallup, 86, of Deansboro, died Friday, Oct. 20, 2017 at Sitrin Health Care Center, New Hartford.
Jeanie Marie Janus, 54, of Deansboro, formerly of the Bronx, died at the Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne.
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Louis A. Ciccone, Jr., 74, of Leland’s Pond, died Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017 at Community Memorial Hospital, Hamilton.
Linda Lynn Holliday Brady, 54, of Waterville, born April 28, 1963, died Sept. 20, 2017.
Jeanette I. Kennard, 89, a lifelong resident of Deansboro, died in the Waterville Residential Care Center Monday, Oct. 16, 2017.
Cindy Lee Mlasgar, 52, of Eaton, died Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017 at Community Memorial Hospital, Hamilton.
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OCTOBER 18, 2017
Donald Clarence Morgan, 77, of Goldendale, Wash., died Sept. 28, 2017 at his home.
Larry A. ‘Hoss’ Winn, Sr., 80, of Augusta, died Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.
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OCTOBER 11, 2017
Gloria Glindmyer (Evans), 87, of Clinton, died Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017 at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Utica.
John (Jack) Harney 84, of Sacramento and Reno, formerly of Knoxboro, died Oct. 4, 2017 at his residence.
Joan E. (Wilson) Larry, 75, of Munford, Tenn. and formerly of Madison, died Sept. 10, 2017.
Malcolm J. ‘Macky’ Spooner, Jr., 39, a life-long resident of Brookfield, died at his home Monday, Oct. 2, 2017.
Constance ‘Connie’ Donato Tuttle, 96, died Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017 in Brooksville, FL.
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OCTOBER 4, 2017
Margaret E. Angell, 78, of Oriskany Falls, died Sept. 24, 2017 at Waterville Residential Care Center.
Arild Dahl, 86, of Westmoreland, died Monday, Sept. 25, 2017 at Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare Center, New Hartford.
Donald ‘Don’ Manson Montana, 91, of New Hartford, died Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017.
Jane Edley Hooper Vivyan, longtime resident of Waterville, died Sept. 25 at Waterville Residential Care Center (formerly Harding Nursing Home) at the age of 98. Jane had lived there since 2006, blessed by the compassionate care of the owners and staff.
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017
Anna C. Bono, 90, of Bouckville, died Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017 at Waterville Residential Care Center.
Lucille A. Bienkowski, 58, of Oriskany Falls, died Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017 at Crouse Hospital, Syracuse.
Joan Ann Krawiec, 82, of Chesapeake, VA, formerly of Waterville, died Sept. 18, 2017.
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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
Margaret J. “Peg” Bridge, 93, of Hamilton, died Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, at Crouse Community Center.
Frederick J. Perry, 77, of Knoxboro, died Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, at Crouse Community Center in Morrisville.
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
Betty Jean Clark, 89, of Clinton, died Sept. 6, 2017.
Fred Schenk, Sr, 92, of Knoxboro, died Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017 at Oneida Healthcare’s ECF.
Norman Vunk, 73, devoted husband, father, grandfather, and friend to many on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., died Aug. 9 at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
George L. Wormuth, Sr., 83, of Oriskany Falls, died Sept. 7, 2017 at Crouse Hospital, Syracuse.
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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
Jessica ‘Jessie’ Hucko Gadziala, 88, of the Southwood at Norwell (Mass.) Nursing Home, died there Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017.
Clarence ‘Mike’ A. Redmond, 89, of Clinton, died Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017 at the Katherine Luther Rehabilitation Center in Clinton.
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AUGUST 30, 2017
Arthur R. Bartlett, 73, of Waterville, formerly of Parishville, died Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017 at Waterville Residential Center.
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AUGUST 23, 2017
Lois P. Jaquays, 88, of Waterville, died Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 at her home.
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AUGUST 16, 2017
​Joan S. Mosher, 87, of Bouckville, died Friday, Aug. 4, 2017 at Crouse Community Center.
Jean G. ‘Pete’ Owen, Sr., 91, died at his home Friday, Aug. 4, 2017.
Paul Swan, 62, of Clinton, died Saturday, July 29, 2017.
Frank E. Urben, 56, of Hamilton, died Monday, Aug. 7, 2017 at his home.
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AUGUST 9, 2017
Jean Williams Ashforth, 91, of Clinton, died July 28, 2017.
Scott Bishopp, 52, of Livonia died July 30, 2017.
Bernard O. “Bernie” Burns of Clinton, former athlete, teacher, coach, Oneida County legislator, and beloved husband and father, died July 25, 2017.
David A. Gaskins, Sr., 80, of Munnsville, died Monday, July 31, 2017, at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.
Martha Jean Oliver, 88, of Madison, died Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at the Waterville Residential Care Center.
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AUGUST 2, 2017
Stephen Bonta of Slingerlands, formerly of Clinton, NY, at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany July 14, 2017.
Frederick J. Bosworth, 87, of Oriskany Falls, formerly of Cazenovia and Bow, NH, died Thursday, July 20, 2017 at his home.
Dorothy Nelson, 70, of New Hartford, died July 25, 2017, at the Abraham House.
Jean M. Reynolds, 72, of Sauquoit, devoted wife, mother and grandmother, died at her home Thursday, July 20, 2017.
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JULY 26, 2017
Thomas J. Bogan, 75, of Waterville, died Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Utica.
Kimberly A. Gagnon, 53, of Deansboro, died Friday, July 14, 2017 at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.
William P. Kervin, 64, of Waterville, died Sunday, July 16, 2017 at his home.
Douglas A. Woolsey, 50, a lifelong resident of Brookfield, died, along with his wife Tari, July 16, 2017 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.
Theresa ‘Tari’ A. Woolsey, 46, a lifelong resident of Brookfield, died Sunday, July 16, 2017 as a result of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.
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JULY 19, 2017
Frederick C. Johnson, 70, of Brookfield, died Sunday, July 9, 2017, at the Waterville Residential Care Center.
Robert D. Kilts “Luke”, 62, of Oriskany Falls, died July 14, 2017 at St. Elizabeth Medical Center.
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JULY 12, 2017
Carol A. (Socha) Aldridge, 68, of Waterville, died at Faxton-St. Luke’s Hospital, July 4, 2017.
Mary Jane Peters Brouillette Turner, 82, of Madison, died Thursday, June 29, 2017.
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JULY 5, 2017
Ethel Planavsky, 90, of Waterville, formerly of Sanitaria Springs, died Friday, June 23, 2017 at Crouse Hospital in Syracuse.
Larry K. Smith, 67, of Brookfield, died Friday, June 23, 2017 at Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare Center.
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JUNE 28, 2017
No obituaries printed in this edition.
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JUNE 21, 2017
Joan B. Brockway, 86, of Rome and Oriskany Falls, died Thursday June 8, 2017, at the home of her daughter, Tammy.
Sidney Francis Fuess, 76, a lifelong resident of Madison, died at home Wednesday, June 14, 2017.
Todd L. Guilmette, 54, of Leland’s Pond, died Saturday, June 10, 2017, at his home.
Timothy J. Lewis, 64, of St. Johnsville, died Monday, June 12, 2017 at Bassett Medical Center in Cooperstown.
Anita M. Peckham, 96, of Madison, died Saturday, June 10, 2017 at the Siegenthaler Hospice Center.
Michael A. Mitchell, 59, of Waterville, died May 30, 2017 in Altoona, PA.
Randolph A. Siedsma, 60, died June 7, 2017.
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JUNE 14, 2017
Francis J. Brennan, 92, of Waterville, in the stillness just before dawn Friday, May 26, 2017, the date of his late beloved wife Marion’s birthday, died at the Waterville Residential Care Center.
Doris Marie (Granville) Comstock, 85, of Clinton, died Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at Lutheran Care in Clinton.
Mary Elizabeth Lally died May 31, 2017.
John ‘Jack’ A. Lane, 66, of Clinton, died Sunday evening, June 4, 2017 at his home.
Fannie May Terrier of Knoxboro died Saturday, June 3, 2017 at Crouse Hospital.
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JUNE 7, 2017
Kenneth J. Batson, Jr., 74, of Utica, formerly of Clayville, died Thursday, May 25, 2017 in the comfort of his home.
Jon Philip ‘Phil’ Bennett, 73, of Waterville, died May 9, 2017.
Diane Burdick, 77, of Cambridge, MA, died Friday, April 21, 2017 at Cambridge Hospital.
Nancy C. Cross, 67, of West Winfield, died Saturday, May 27, 2017 at her home.
Florence A. Ryan, 97, of Malta, died May 25, 2017.
Douglas J. St. Onge, 64, of Hamilton, died Saturday, May 27, 2017 at Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare in New Hartford.
William J. Stewart, Sr., 71, of Vernon, died May 26, 2017.
Michael R. Woods, 67, of Hubbardsville, died Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Utica.
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MAY 31, 2017
Beverly E. Furness, 84, of Oriskany Falls, died Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.
Sally “Sparkles” Humphrey, 87, of Clinton, died Thursday, May 18, 2017, at home.
Ruth E. Januchowski, 69, of Clark Mills, died.
Charlotte Parks, 85, a longtime resident of Waterville and Brookfield, died Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at Brookdale Westlake Village in Westlake, Ohio.
Glenn F. Skinner, 87, of Lairdsville, died May 19, 2017 at St. Luke's Hospital, Utica.
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MAY 24, 2017
No obituaries printed in this edition.
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MAY 17, 2017
Grace Mary Burton, 90, a resident of the Presbyterian Home for CNY, died Friday, May 5, 2017, at the home.
Catherine Convery Heston, 77, formerly of Clinton, died Thursday, March 23, 2017 in Savannah, GA.
Leon ‘Metzy’ J. Metz Sr., 70, of Oriskany Falls and formerly of Vernon, died Monday, May 8, 2017 at Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown.
Laverne Douglas Reeves, 66, of Madison, died Thursday, April 6, 2017.
Beatrice Luretta (Pudney) (Abrams) Tuttle of Brookfield, died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, at the home of her daughter Tamara Ione Freshour, in Evans, W.V.
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MAY 10, 2017
Robert Bradley Dubach of Norwich died April 24, 2017.
Frederick J. Simmons, 68, a life resident of Brookfield, died Thursday, April 27, 2017, at Mohawk Valley Health Care Center.
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MAY 3, 2017
Carol M. Engle, 90, of Westmoreland, died Jan. 13, 2017 at the Lutheran Home in Clinton.
Laurena Alta Murray Gridley, 94, of North Brookfield, died Saturday April 22, 2017 at the Martin-Luther Home, Clinton.
Janet K. Johnson, 83, of Clinton, died Friday, April 21, 2017.
Ruth Starkweather, 99, of Leonardsville, died April 8, 2017, in the comfort of her home.
Lueen E. Wood, 73, of Oriskany Falls, died April 25, 2017.
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APRIL 26, 2017
Pauline O. Bateman, 75, of Waterville, died April 16, 2017.
Adella V. Suders, 94, who had been living with her daughter in Waterville, and formerly of Clinton, died Sunday, April 9, 2017 at the Katherine Luther RHC & RC in Clinton.
Donald E. White, 84, Hubbardsville, died Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at Crouse Hospital, Syracuse.
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APRIL 19, 2017
Harold B. Hanes, 97, a resident of the Presbyterian Home for CNY, died Monday, April 10, 2017 at Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare Center, New Hartford.
Dwight L. Russell died Thursday, March 23 in Altamonte Springs, FL.
Ruth Starkweather, 99, of Leonardsville, died April 8, 2017, in the comfort of her home.
Lois D. Scholl, 89, of Clark Mills, died at home April 8, 2017.
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APRIL 12, 2017
No obituaries printed in this edition.
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APRIL 5, 2017
David T. Bridge, Sr., 59, of Madison, died Monday, March 27, 2017.
Doris A. Brouillette, 77, of Waterville, died Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at her home.
Shirley B. Dyer, 84, of Oriskany Falls, born July 1, 1932, died March 26, 2017.
Elwyn Kearn Gray, 92, of Brookfield, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, at his home in Okeechobee, Fla.
Joseph G. Kane, 66, of Waterville, died Monday, March 27, 2017 at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.
Richard M. Miles, 72, of Madison, died Friday, March 24, 2017, at his home.
Christine E. Siedsma, 53, of Franklin Springs, died Monday, March 27, 2017.
Paul L. Williams, 86, of Florence, KY, born June 18, 1930, died March 24, 2017.
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MARCH 29, 2017
Mary Wilcox Davis died March 15, 2017.
Pearl E. Denton, 84, of Bridgewater, died at the Presbyterian Home in New Hartford Saturday, March 18, 2017.
Bernard (Bernie) Malhenzie, 91, a longtime resident of Oriskany Falls, died Feb. 28, 2017 at Summerford Nursing Home in Falkville, Ala.
Everett L. ‘Coop’ Marceau, 80, lifelong Waterville resident, died Friday, March 24, 2017 at Waterville Residential Care Center.
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MARCH 22, 2017
No obituaries printed in this edition.
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MARCH 15, 2017
Amy S. Marris, 96, of Deansboro, died March 8, 2017.
Eleanor M. Martin, 81, of Waterville, died Saturday, March 4, 2017 at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Utica.
Donna Lee Welsh Melvin died Feb. 22, 2017.
Patrick John Sullivan, 45, of Hilton Head Island and formerly Chadwicks, died at Hilton Head Regional Medical Center Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017.
William L. ‘Bill’ Welsh, 79, of Whitesboro, formerly of Waterville, died Monday, March 6, 2017 at Abraham House in Utica.
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MARCH 8, 2017
John C. Carr, Sr., 66, of North Brookfield, also affectionately know by family and friends as Ogie, died Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center.
Duane L. Cook 63, of Greentown, PA. died at his home Feb. 17, 2017.
Richard E. ‘Grampa’ Maxam, 76, of Clinton, died at home March 2, 2017.
Marydee Mennig Moot, 54, of Bouckville, died Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, at Community Memorial Hospital.
Elizabeth J. Redmond, 89, of Clinton, died Feb. 25, 2017 at the Brookdale Residential Community.
Erma Witter, formerly of Unadilla Forks, died Feb. 23, 2017.
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MARCH 1, 2017
No obituaries printed in this edition.
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FEBRUARY 22, 2017
Richard G. ‘Buddy’ Brown, 81, of Clinton, died Feb. 10, 2017 at the Lutheran Home in Clinton, where he’d resided for the last 10 years.
Kathleen Humphreys died at White Plains Hospital Jan. 23, 2017.
David T, LaClair, Sr., 73, of Brookfield, died Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Utica.
Timothy Paul Rezucha, 28, of Binghamton, died Feb. 10, 2017.
Debra L. Seeley, 52, of Hamilton, died Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017 at Community Memorial Hospital in Hamilton.
Rosemary A. Williams, 84, longtime Waterville resident, died Monday, Feb. 13, 2017 at the Waterville Residential Care Center.
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FEBRUARY 15, 2017
William A. Murphy, 56, formerly of Clinton, died at home Feb. 3, 2017 in Dumfries, VA.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2017
Wellington Atlee Barker Jr., 76, of Clinton, known by all as Junior, died at home Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017.
John C. Ingraham, 73, of Deansboro, died Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017.
Arnold E. Rechsteiner, 85, of Clinton, died Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017 at the Presbyterian Home.
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FEBRUARY 1, 2017
Winifred ‘Winnie’ Merriman, 92, of Waterville , died Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017 at Community Memorial Hospital in Hamilton.
Sean K. Tuttle, 59, of Port Charlotte, Fla., died Nov. 25, 2016.
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JANUARY 25, 2017
Charles W. Angier, 80, of Deansboro, died Monday, Jan. 16, 2017.
William James Bartlett, 90, of Madison, died Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017, at Waterville Residential Care.
Dennis W. Cartwight, of Clinton, died at home Jan. 17, 2017.
Thomas D. Phelan of Clinton died at home Jan. 17, 2017.
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JANUARY 18, 2017
Craig Griffith, 49, of Waterville, died Jan. 1, 2017.
Rena Grace Hulpiau, 75, of Waterville, died Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017.
Bruce Randall Hutchings, 65, died at his home in Norwich Jan. 4, 2017.
Henry R. Klis, 93, of Westmoreland, died Friday, January 6, 2017 at Faxton-St. Luke’s Hospital.
Robin Lee Saville, 61, of Deansboro, died Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 at Faxton-St. Luke’s Healthcare in New Hartford.
Ronald E. Tice, 65, of Madison, formerly of Waterville, died Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Utica.
Hannah Grace Noel Trevvett, 19, of West Winfield, died Dec. 28, 2016.
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JANUARY 11, 2017
Beverley Ball Joyce Brockley Arthur 86, of Sauquoit, died Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016, at St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Utica.
Ruby E. Durant, 83, of Hamilton, died Friday, Dec. 30, 2016 at Community Memorial Hospital, Hamilton.
John ‘Jack’ Wendell Fleming Jr., 74, of the Woodlands, Texas, died at home Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017.
Trevor K. Ford, 45, of Clinton, died Jan. 2, 2017 at his home.
John R. Foster, 73, of Waterville, died Monday, Jan. 2, 2017 at his home.
Jean Eastman Meyers, 90, of Oneida, died Friday, Dec. 16, 2016 in the Extended Care Facility of Oneida Healthcare Center, where she had been a resident for the past two years.
Barbara T. Riley, 84, a resident of the Presbyterian Home for CNY, formerly of Utica, and Milford, MA, died Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016 at the nursing home.
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JANUARY 4, 2017
Francis R. Kelley, 80, of Waterville, died Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016 at St. Elizabeth Medical Center.
Arlene R. Lollman, 87, of Bouckville, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2016, at Oneida Healthcare’s Extended Care Facility.
Catherine J. Nolan, 82, of Earlville, died Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016, at Crouse Community Center.
Stanley D. Sambora, 84, of Waterville, died Dec. 27, 2016, at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare.
Dr. Wesley Perry Sauter of Bluffton, S.C. died at Hospice Savannah, Dec. 9, 2016. He was 91 years old. He is preceded in death by his wife of 54 years, Marie Joy Lowes Sauter.
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