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Frank Eckmair’s carved wood and metal blocks, the basis of perhaps thousands of prints, are stored in typecase after typecase in his studio in Gilbertsville.

eigh Chadwick, home for Christmas in the middle of her junior year at Harpur College, expected no more than a social evening when she and a group of skiing buddies went out to Harry’s, a Richfield Springs bar and dance hall just north of the village.

Then who breezed through but Frank Eckmair, nine years older than Leigh, with college, a stint in Korea and a first marriage behind him, en route from Little Falls, where he was teaching art, to Gilbertsville, where he was living.

He was a whirlwind of energy, Leigh remembers of the man who would be her husband for 51 years.

Before breezing out the door, he asked the young woman, “Can I call you?�

He did, the next day. Soon, “he started talking about ‘us’, about what ‘we’ were going to do.� This happened so quickly, “he never asked me to get married.� Two weeks before he was to depart that fall for graduate school at Ohio State, “he told me we HAD to get married,� Leigh said. “He caught Please See ECKMAIR, B3

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night before, the 5th, is Downtown Oneonta’s “First Friday� celebration for September, which includes the opening of “Passing Through the Pillars: Celebrating 125 Years of SUNY Oneonta History,� at the Oneonta History Center, 183 Main. (The exhibit coincides SUNY Oneonta’s 125th birthday party from 9 a.m. into the evening Monday the 7th. Details at www.oneonta.edu.)

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Croatian artist – the art in her earlier book, “Princesses on the Run,� was “luminous,� Anna said.

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Anna Membrino autographs copies of “I Want To Be A Ballerina� on her parents’ Lake Street porch.

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a local artist with a national reputation. The work is wide-ranging, eclectic. He had voluminous creativity.”

That was evident from that evening at Harry’s until the artist’s passing in February 2012. “He was doing more in his 70s then more people do in their 50s,” said attorney Haus, whose friendship with Eckmair goes back to the 1950s.

That was manifest to the new wife in Columbus, Ohio. He’d “power nap” – awakening after 20 minutes at noon, reinvigorated for the afternoon. Another 20 minutes after supper, and he’d work in his studio until midnight.

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many from the collection of two lawyer friends, Ronald Haus and Richard McVinney, make up “Oneonta Collects Frank Eckmair,” which opened Tuesday, Sept. 2, at SUNY Oneonta’s MartinMullen Art Gallery.

A reception is planned 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 11.

And a panel discussion, at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, will mark the exhibit’s end.

“It’s iconic for our area,” said Tim Sheesley, SUNY art professor and gallery director. “It certainly has an important local interest, but he had a tremendous career as a printmaker.” The other organizer, art enthusiast David Hayes, agreed: “He is

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It was a productive union, not only in three children, including attorney Kelly Eckmair of Oneonta; Stephanie is a tri-athlete in Hingham, Mass., son Tony, a sculptor in Rochester.

And in the hundreds, even thousands of wood cuts that came to life under his carving tools in the subsequent half-century of creativity.

Eckmair’s woodcut and intaglio prints found homes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian, the Whitney, the British Museum, and in the homes of many local friends and admirers. Fifty examples,

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While studying at Ohio State, he taught at Denison and Kenyon. Required to turn out four prints a semester, Frank – in competition with another artist – did one a week. And he had time to joust with his Abstract Expressionist instructor, telling the younger man, “I know how to paint. I’m going to paint what I’m going to paint.”

After a year Millikin University in southern Illinois, “we accepted a one-year appointment at Buffalo State,” said Leigh. “It turned into 33 years.”

Born in Norwich, Eckmair was raised in Gilbertsville, where his emigre parents – also Frank, a restaurateur trained in the European style in Austria, and mom Gladys – ran The Empire House, for decades a weekend dining mecca for patrons from Albany, Binghamton and Syracuse, as well as Cooperstown and Oneonta.

Young Frank was considered a bit of a “child savant,” said his wife, and he was sent to Cooperstown to study under Helga Edge, a noted art teacher in her day. At the time, he became the youngest artist to display work at the Cooperstown Art Association.

After Iowa State and Korea, he rotated back to Gilbertsville, While at Buffalo State, he commuted for 14 years so the kids could go to Gilbertsville schools. And he retired there in 1995.

Even today, his studio and adjoining rooms at the Eckmairs’ home are stacked with type cases, stuffed with print upon print, tray after tray filled with the wood and metal blocks carved with the reverse images that, pressed against homemade paper, created his art.

He began as a painter, and the examples still hanging in the Eckmairs’ home brings Marsden Hartley and Edward Hopper to mind, although Leigh bristles at such comparisons: They’re Frank Eckmair’s.

But he was soon drawn to printmaking. And from colors to black on white, experimenting with white space in particular. Haus’ favorite is “The Auction,” inspired by one Jim Lettis conducted in New Lisbon in the 1960s; but there are so many others.

From the type cases, relics from print shops that shifted to cold type, Frank culled ampersands – there are boxes of the “and” symbols stacked in bookcases.

One result was “My Nice Little Ampersand,” a book written with Edward Smith Jr., a colleague in Buffalo State’s history department.

What now? Leigh Eckmair, familiar with archives from her work as town historian, has some ideas, but nothing’s firmed up yet.

Her husband’s energy continued until the end. He would sit for hours at the end of the couch, carving wood blocks on a tiger maple table Leigh’s dad built for her during her girlhood in Richfield Springs.

When it was over, it was over. The couple were going out to a pancake breakfast. Frank, who had low blood sugar and had been passing out for a few moments from time to time, did so again while sitting on the bed, and didn’t wake up.

But his imprint lives on.

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Positive Dealings Among Females Her Inspiration BALLERINA/From B1 tights, my leotard, by ballet shoes and my TUTU!â&#x20AC;? Mia declares. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a ballerina!â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;A ballerina needs balance,â&#x20AC;? her older sister tells her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You tripped going up the stairs yesterday.â&#x20AC;?

But this is no book about a mean older sister. Instead of criticizing, the elder guides her younger sister who, at bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end, becomes a ballerina indeed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I really wanted was a positive sister relationship,â&#x20AC;? Anna said in an interview on the porch of her parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lake Street home, where she was visiting from New York City on Labor Day Weekend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think setting examples of positive female relationships is important.â&#x20AC;?

As Mia became a ballerina, so Anna achieved her dream: Random House published â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Want To Be A Ballerinaâ&#x20AC;? on Tuesday, Aug. 26.

Anna was raised in Washington, D.C. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and summered at Aunt Marciaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farm in Milford. Her dad Joe Membrino, an Indian law attorney, lobbied for Native American water rights. Her mom, Martha, was director of publications at Sidwell Friends School, where Anna studied. (The parents retired a year ago and moved to Cooperstown.)

Anna attended Connecticut College in New London (Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alma mater, and that of Craig Timberg, Pulitzer winning journalist and son-in-law of Cooperstownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Badgleys), where she worked in the Roth Writing Center and won an internship at Scholastic, the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book publisher.

That turned into a job when she graduated. Over next year and a half, Anna sat through many publishersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; presentations of books they wanted picked up by Scholasticâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book clubs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was able to get a real sense of what publishers wanted,â&#x20AC;? which guided her when her break came after a couple of weeks at Random House.

Although she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an older sister herself (and, no, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never been a ballerina), she does have a younger brother, Michael. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the caring and depth of affection I have with my brotherâ&#x20AC;? is reflected in the book, she said. For instance, one of the challenges Mia overcomes is spilling orange juice, something her brother â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he graduated from UVM in the spring â&#x20AC;&#x201C; did regularly for a while.

Since Smiljana Coh lives in Croatia, she and Anna didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a chance to meet, but they developed a productive partnership nonetheless.

At Annaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end, the book was sketched out and text placed on each page. Beginning with one simple image of Mia, Smiljana spun out 32 pages of detailed illustration.

Having achieved a lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream so quickly, what now?

Annaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing some freelance writing for Random House, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really do love editing.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some fun projects coming up.â&#x20AC;?

Stay tuned.

The team from Oneontaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eastman Associates, the construction firm, was everywhere, making final touches on the bankâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new railroad-depot-style branch on lower Main Street, across from River Street.

Appliances came from the Catansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sears Hometown Store at the far end of River. Kevin Greenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Epic Landscapes of Toddsville did the plantings.

Not everything is done locally, but as much as possible is, said bank President Scott White, which, he added, is the point of a local bank.

Seven years ago, the Bank of Cooperstown didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exist.

Now, after chalking up the second-largest deposits in the Cooperstown market, it is refocusing sights on Oneonta, opening its first branch Monday, Sept. 8, with a day-long celebration, including a ribbon-cutting

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Two other Oneontans, personal banker Jen Dileo and teller Evelyn Zuk, round out the staff.

The bank had customers in Oneonta, and they asked for a local branch, White

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But this is no book about a mean older sister. Instead of criticizing, the elder guides her younger sister who, at bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end, becomes a ballerina indeed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I really wanted was a positive sister relationship,â&#x20AC;? Anna said in an interview on the porch of her parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lake Street home, where she was visiting from New York City on Labor Day Weekend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think setting examples of positive female relationships is important.â&#x20AC;?

As Mia became a ballerina, so Anna achieved her dream: Random House published â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Want To Be A Ballerinaâ&#x20AC;? on Tuesday, Aug. 26.

Anna was raised in Washington, D.C. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and summered at Aunt Marciaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farm in Milford. Her dad Joe Membrino, an Indian law attorney, lobbied for Native American water rights. Her mom, Martha, was director of publications at Sidwell Friends School, where Anna studied. (The parents retired a year ago and moved to Cooperstown.)

Anna attended Connecticut College in New London (Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alma mater, and that of Craig Timberg, Pulitzer winning journalist and son-in-law of Cooperstownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Badgleys), where she worked in the Roth Writing Center and won an internship at Scholastic, the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book publisher.

That turned into a job when she graduated. Over next year and a half, Anna sat through many publishersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; presentations of books they wanted picked up by Scholasticâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book clubs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was able to get a real sense of what publishers wanted,â&#x20AC;? which guided her when her break came after a couple of weeks at Random House.

Although she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an older sister herself (and, no, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never been a ballerina), she does have a younger brother, Michael. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the caring and depth of affection I have with my brotherâ&#x20AC;? is reflected in the book, she said. For instance, one of the challenges Mia overcomes is spilling orange juice, something her brother â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he graduated from UVM in the spring â&#x20AC;&#x201C; did regularly for a while.

Since Smiljana Coh lives in Croatia, she and Anna didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a chance to meet, but they developed a productive partnership nonetheless.

At Annaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end, the book was sketched out and text placed on each page. Beginning with one simple image of Mia, Smiljana spun out 32 pages of detailed illustration.

Having achieved a lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream so quickly, what now?

Annaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing some freelance writing for Random House, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really do love editing.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got some fun projects coming up.â&#x20AC;?

Stay tuned.

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Appliances came from the Catansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Sears Hometown Store at the far end of River.

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Not everything is done locally, but as much as possible is, said bank President Scott White, which, he added, is the point of a local bank.

Seven years ago, the Bank of Cooperstown didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exist.

Now, after chalking up the second-largest deposits in the Cooperstown market, it is refocusing sights on Oneonta, opening its first branch Monday, Sept. 8, with a day-long celebration, including a ribbon-cutting

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Through the window at right, Branch Manager Rachel Jessupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office. In front is an airy lobby.

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The branch can succeed by gaining a relatively small portion of local business, so White is confident about a profitable outcome.

In a walk-through and walk-around, the bank president pointed out the overhanging eaves and exterior brackets that echo the style of buildings from the D&H heyday.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Trish Riddell-Kent Active Since Joining Town Board KENT/From A1

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SUNY music lecturer Steve Markuson reprises “If I Was A Rich Man” from “Fiddler On The Roof” at Orpheus’ 30th anniversary performance Saturday, Aug. 30, at the Oneonta Theater. He’d starred in the original Orpheus performance as well.

With Music, Orpheus Remembers 30TH/From A1 backstage with some advice. “She said, ‘You went too fast in the drugstore scene. You should wait … and wait … and wait … until everyone is focused on you’.”

A Republican, she will also be seeking the Democratic nomination in that party’s primary, noon-9 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 9, against Democrat David Rowley, the former Oneonta City School District interim superintendent. She has been endorsed by the town Democratic Committee, even as a Republican.

Since her appointment in January, she has supported the ban on gas drilling, as well as drafting the road-use agreement, which protects the town’s taxpayers from hav-

ing to pay for damage caused by industrial trucking. “It does not effect logging, cement or gravel businesses,” she said. “Those are local companies that we want to see continue operations. This is a piece of legislation that promotes good business.”

The environmental factor is a critical part of Riddell-Kent’s campaign. In 2005, she and her husband donated the family’s farm to the state as the Robert V. Riddell State Park. “Environmental stewardship is very important to me,” she said. “We love business, but we have to look at what is sustainable. My dad taught me that.”

She recently finished applying for a $460,500 Green Innovations Grant for the board in hopes of improving draining in the West End. “On May 16, when we had all that rain, I grabbed Steve and said, ‘We’re going to take pictures’!”

she said. “We went to the Westgate Plaza and took photos of how flooded it was, and I included those photos with my application.”

The grant would allow them to plant more trees along Butler Creek and improve drainage in the town.

“And I’ll keep writing grants until we get the funding we need.”

With the fracking ban now in place, Riddell-Kent feels as though the board is able to move forward.

“We’ve seen how politics had locked up the board, but this new board has so much momentum,” she said. “We’re really working together. My motto is that it’s not about politics – it’s about getting work done.”

And she hopes that she can continue being a part of it. “I want to stay on this board,” she said. “If the people of Oneonta will have me.”

ROWLEY/From A1 Dave Rowley’s mother and aunt moved into two of the existing homes there. A sister brother – Rowley is one of nine siblings – built houses there.

After Hartwick College, Rowley received a master’s in public administration from Penn State, then embarked on a challenging career in public education.

He taught at Edmeston, then Monticello, where he rose to assistant principal. He joined Jefferson/Youngsville as high school principal, and participated in its merger with Delaware Valley and Narrowsburg, into the Sullivan West Central School District. He served as assistant superintendent of the new 1,700-student district, “a really challenging job.”

That primed him for a superintendency, which brought him back to Edmeston Central, which brought him full circle back to

Rowley Lane, where he’s lived for six years. And now, after a stint as interim superintendent of Oneonta schools after Mike Shea retired, and a current one at Stamford, he’s looking to bring all that experience to the Oneonta Town Board.

Noon-9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, his name will be on the Democratic primary ballot vs. Trish RiddellKent, appointed to the town board in January. Kent, a Republican, gained sufficient signatures to get on the Democratic ballot.

In recent years, when Supervisor Bob Wood formed five task forces to study possible consolidation with the city in 2012-12, Rowley chaired General Administration. While the five task forces concluded merger wasn’t feasible then, Rowley’s group identified $460,000 in possible savings.

As the town prepared the Comprehensive Master Plan, he provided advice on issues related to the

school district.

With the debate raging about whether the town should build a water plant in Fortin Park to serve Southside, Rowley joined former DEC Commissioner Mike Zagata and Roger France, a retired state Department of Health Engineer, in studying the matter and concluded the Fortin option is the cheapest right now, but a regional water authority provided the most benefits.

Rowley’s wife, Gail, works at LEAF. Their daughter, Heather, lives in New York City.

“I’m very supportive of the new direction of the IDA,” he said. “You have to be supportive of reasonable economic development when you look at decline of enrollments. It’s all a byproduct of young families relocating to other places. If we don’t have opportunities for our people, we aren’t going to reverse this trend.”

appointed member since January, when she stepped in for Janet Hurley Quackenbush.

“My husband Steve and I had been going to a lot of board meetings because of the fracking issue,” said RiddellKent. “The board approached me and asked if I wanted to serve.”

Dave Rowley Involved In Comp Plan, Merger Study

It’s been 30 years and 112 shows since, coming Likewise, Caitlin Cook-Wightoff the successful launch of man, Orpheus’ original “Annie” Glimmerglass Opera, Peter in 1990, joined sisters Molly Macris, Bill Campbell and and Riley Bowen in “Tomorrow.”

Dorothy Caswell founded Orpheus Theater.

Review” was her first show. She And on Saturday, Aug. 30, served as executive director in alumni and new stars returned 2005-12. “When I first started, I to perform songs from three told my husband that I wouldn’t decades of Broadway hits in do more than one show a year,” the Oneonta Theater’s balcony said Gardner. “That didn’t last. stage, filling the house. Many of It’s a love affair.” the original cast members were The company has seen its reprising their star turns from de- share of stars. Broadway chorecades ago, so many that, for fear ographer Sammy Bayes directed of leaving someone out, Gardner several shows and served as would only say, “They’re all executive director for a time. highlights.”

“101 Dalmatians” pup Clark Orpheus debuted with “A Oliver, Rockette Jaycee Lambros Musical Review” and presented and late “Lion King” star Jason its first full show, “The Sound of Raize all once graced the OrMusic,” in 1984. pheus Stage. “We’ve got some Gardner joined the company very talented people here,” said two years later – “A Musical Gardner.

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

THE FREEMAN’S JOURNAL B-5

With Gate Up 17%, Hall Welcomes 16 Millionth Visitor HALL/From A1 48,000, third largest after 2007 and the 1999 induction of Nolan Ryan, George Brett, Robin Yount and Orlando Cepeda, which drew 50,000.

But Tuesday morning, Sept.

2, all of this was the backdrop to young fan George Christopher’s identification as Visitor 16 Million. An eighth-grader at Hazlett (N.J.) Middle School, George said

he was “shocked, I guess. That’s the best way to describe it.”

A Hall member, the boy had his membership upgraded from “individual” to “sustaining,” and received a $100 gift certificate to spend in the museum store.

The son of Beth and Michael Christopher, who often visit a friend who has a camp on Otsego Lake, George estimated he’s visited the Hall perhaps 20 times,

beginning when he was a few months old.

The Mets fan who plays Little League and has done some travel baseball, George always makes a point to take in the Abbott & Costello “Who’s On First” clip, and visits the display of lockers containing the uniforms of all the MLB teams.

In an interview, Horn said the season began strong when an “I

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Love NY” TV campaign featuring Joe Torre pushed pre-Easter Week attendance up 160 percent. “We hope they” – the Empire State Development Corp.’s tourism arm – will continue to see value in Cooperstown as an income driver for the state.”

Another early indicator of a banner year came the Saturday of Induction Weekend, when 6,700 fans went through the Hall’s figu-

CCS Elementary Among Best In State CCS/From A1 In an interview, Strang said the designation came because the school showed “high progress in all areas.” The third grade was particularly outstanding, reaching the 93rd percentile of the state’s schools; but all areas scored in the 80th percentile or above.

Overall, the elementary scores were at least 11.4 percent than the year before, Strang said. And improvement was seen in all subcategories, such as pupils with disabilities and economically disadvantaged ones.

Under the Common Core initiative, students Grades 3-6 and Grades 7-12 take standardized tests in April, and the results were released in mid-August. The Common Core has been in effect for two years now, so it is the first comparison of apples and apples – between the 2012-13 year and the 2013-14 year.

While some school districts have resisted the Common Core, Hebert and the CCS board have embraced it, creating the executive principal position and recruiting Strang to push it forward. State Education Commissioner John King Jr. spent a day in local classrooms last March, observing the progress.

Strang credited a broad acceptance among her teachers with the program’s success. Its focus is “data driven instruction, and adjusting instruction to what they (pupils) know and what they still need to know.”

Instead of rote memorization, the pro-

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As ALS “Ice Bucket” Challenge fever swept Otsego County, Otsego Electric Coop President Steve Rinell, and his staff, agreed to be doused with a backhoe-bucket full of icy water Thursday, Aug. 28, in the Hartwick maintenance yard. Wendy Millea mans the backhoe while Debbie Clegg, right, videotapes the scene. At right, an exhilarated Rinell and, from left, Dan Hamilton, Cody Allen, Brad Alger (hidden), Lee Rumovicz, Trevor Le Fever and Jim Foote react to the dousing.

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Horn said banner Inductions are anticipated – Randy Johnson is among the possibilities next year, and Derek Jeter in 2019 – which should continue the rising trend.

He also pointed to a national tour of exhibits planned in 2016, a collaboration with IMAX and the MLB, as another innovation bound to raise the Hall’s visibility.

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Surprised and beaming, CCS Elementary Principal Teresa Gorman receives the “Reward School” plaque from Executive Principal Lynn Strang during the opening assembly.

gram encourages problem solving. “In the real world, an engineer has to figure out what isn’t working,” she observed. “It isn’t told to them.”

The other principle is “critical analysis, the ability to comprehend complex texts.

That’s a progression,” she said. “It just doesn’t happen overnight.”

Strang said she believes the third graders did so well because that is the first class instructed with Common Core principals from the beginning. At the high school level, the effort is still trying to identify and fill gaps.

The process is guiding by the Inquiry Team, consisting of administrators and teachers, with an emphasis of collaboration: Teachers work together on diagnosing hurdles and implementing ways to overcome them.

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ART OPENING -- 10 a.m.

Cooperstown artist Nate Katz, “Obsessive Construction: Strip Mall Art.” Fenimore Art Museum, Hwy. 80, Cooperstown. Info, www.fenimoreartmuseum.org WRITER’S FEST -- 12:30-4:30 p.m. Celebrating female writers around the country. Hobart Community Center, 80 Cornell Ave., Hobart. Info, www.hobartbookvillage.com.

FABULOUS FRIDAY -- 5-8 p.m. Main Street Oneonta hosts car show, live music, and more.

Main Street, Oneonta.

OPENING – 5 p.m. “Passing Through the Pillars: Celebrating 125 Years of SUNY Oneonta History.” Greater Oneonta Historical Society, 183 Main St., Oneonta.

Info, www.oneontahistory.org.

OPENING -- 5-8 p.m. The Community Arts Network of Oneonta (CANO) presents regional artists Roshan Houshmand and Jian Cui. The Galleries at Wilber

Mansion, 11 Ford Ave., Oneonta.

Info, (607) 432-2070.

CONTRADANCE – 8-11 p.m., Otsego Dance Society Music Curt Osgood, Henry Jankiewicz and John Wobus. Michael Kernan calls. No partner or experience necessary. All dances taught. $8 suggested, students and 18 and under, $4; children 12 and under, free.

First Presbyterian Church, 25 Church St., Cooperstown. Info, (607) 965-8232, (315) 2726110, www.otsegodancesociety. blogspot.com

Saturday, September 6

COOP FARMERS MARKET -- 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Pioneer Alley, rain or shine. Info, (607) 547-6195, www.otsego2000.org ONEONTA FARMERS MARKET -- 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Muller Plaza (in front of Clarion Hotel). Info, www. oneontafarmersmarket.com GARAGE SALE – 9 a.m. Annual Grand and Glorious Garage sale floods Main Street with bar-

gains. Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.catskillchoralsociety.org HIKE – 9 a.m. Hike Basswood Pond State Forest and look for animals and foliage. Basswood Rd. off County Rd. 16, Burlington. Info, (607) 547-4488.

BOTTLE DRIVE -- 9 a.m.

Cooperstown Boy Scout Troop 1254 collects Cooperstown bottles and cans from curb or porch steps. Monthly fund raiser supports troupe. Info, Bruce at (607) 267-6730.

WRITER’S FEST -- 9:30 a.m.-7 p.m. Celebrating female writers around the country.

Hobart Community Center, 80 Cornell Ave., Hobart. Info, www. hobartbookvillage.com.

ANTIQUE ENGINES -- 10 a.m.5 p.m. Antique engine Jamboree. Gas and steam powered engines. Hanford Mills Museum, 51 Cty. Hwy. 12, East Meredith.

Info, (607) 278-5744.

BBQ -- Noon-5 p.m. Featuring Brooks BBQ. Dinner, $8.75; half-chicken alone, $4.75.

Kids’ activities. “Red Door”

Church, Main St. and Tilton Ave., Oneonta. Info, (607) 432-7520.

PICNIC -- Noon-4 p.m. NAACP annual picnic features Zumba, face painting, music and food.

Bring a dish to pass. Large Pavilion, Neahwa Park, Oneonta.

Info, (607) 432-5850.

BOOK SIGNING -- 1-3 p.m.

Local author Deborah Blake discusses her novel “Wickedly Dangerous.” The Green Toad Bookstore, 198 Main St., Oneonta. Info, www.greentoadbookstore.com, (607) 433-8898.

ART OPENING -- 5-7 p.m.

Opening reception for “I Live Here Now (an exhibition about home)” by Amy Tavern. Cherry Branch Gallery, 25 Main St., Cherry Valley. Info, www.cherrybranchgallery.com.

ELKS CENTENNIAL DINNER -- 6 p.m. Celebrate 100 years of service with Lodge #1312 of Oneonta. Memorabilia display.

Oneonta Elks Lodge, 84 Chestnut St. Info, Linda at (607) 432-1312.

THURSDAY-FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4-5. 2014

Sunday, September 7

LOWER DECK DASH –10 a.m.

5K to benefit the Chief Russo Memorial Playground fund. 6th Ward Playground, Scramling Ave, Oneonta. Info, (607) 433-1341.

WRITER’S FEST -- 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Celebrating female writers around the country. Hobart Community Center, 80 Cornell Ave., Hobart. Info, www.hobartbookvillage.com.

Monday, September 8

TOASTMASTERS – 5:40-6.45 p.m. Improve speaking and leadership skills and have fun in supportive Toastmasters club.

Green Earth natural Foods, 4 Market St., Oneonta. Info, www.oneonta.toastmastersclubs.org QUASQUICENTENNIAL -- SUNY Oneonta celebrates its 125th Birthday from 9 a.m. into the evening. Details at www. oneonta.edu

Tuesday, September 9

WOMEN’S LUNCH – 1 p.m. The Women’s Club of Cooperstown hosts annual salad luncheon. Christ Church Parish House, Fair Street, Cooperstown.

Info, (607) 547-9138.

RABIES CLINIC – 6-8 p.m.

Free rabies shots for dogs, cats and ferrets. Town Barn, Cherry Valley. Info, (607) 547-4230.

Thursday, September 11

ART OPENING -- 4:306:30 p.m. Foreman Gallery at Hartwick College three-artist exhibit, “Uische Beatha: Water of Life.” Hartwick College Anderson Center for the Arts, Oneonta.

Info, (607) 431-4825.

Saturday, September 13

ARTS FESTIVAL – City of the Hills art and music festival.

Main St., Oneonta. Info, www. cityofthehillsartsfestivsal.com

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Legal notice NOTICE TO THE VOTERS OF OTSEGO COUNTY Primary Election Tuesday September 9, 2014.

12PM - 9PM CANDIDATES ************** ************** DEMOCRATIC Polls will be open in ALL districts of the County

GOVERNOR

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BUTTERNUTS (D) Municipal Building 1234 St Hwy 51 Gilbertsville

OTSEGO 3 (D) Town Building 811 Co Hwy 26 Fly Creek

CHERRY VALLEY (D) Community Center 2 Genesee St Cherry Valley DECATUR (D) Decatur Town Barn 104 Co Hwy 37 Decatur EDMESTON (D) Municipal Building 2 West St Edmeston EXETER (D) Town Garage/ Offices 7411 St Hwy 28 Schuyler Lake HARTWICK (D) Town Office Building 103 Town Dr Hartwick LAURENS (D) Town Hall 37 Brook St Laurens MARYLAND (D)(R) Firehouse 40 Main St Schenevus MIDDLEFIELD (D)(R) Clark Sports Center 124 Co Hwy 52 Cooperstown

PITTSFIELD (D) Town Hall 175 St Hwy 80 New Berlin PLAINFIELD (D) Courthouse 133 Co Hwy 18A Unadilla Forks RICHFIELD (D) Town Hall 18 E James St Richfield Springs ROSEBOOM (D) Roseboom Town Barn 126 Co Hwy 50 Cherry Valley SPRINGFIELD (D)(R) Community Center 129 Co Hwy 29A Springfield Center UNADILLA (D) Town Hall 1648 St Hwy 7 Unadilla WESTFORD (D)(R) Town Hall 1812 Co Hwy 34 Westford WORCESTER (D) Worcester Central School 198 Main St Worcester

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NOTICE TO DEFENDANT PURSUANT TO CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES SECTION 316

designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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SUPREME COURT: STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF OTSEGO SUMMONS

RJI No.: 2012-0970 Index No.: ______________ ______________ THE CITY OF ONEONTA City Hall 258 Main Street Oneonta, New York, 13820

Plaintiff,

-againstANNE-LOUISE AVERY 50 Elm Street Oneonta, New York 13820 Defendant, ______________ ______________ To the above named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the state, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

Dated: October 25, 2012

David S. Merzig KEHOE & MERZIG, P.C Attorneys for the Plaintiff Office and Post Office Address 8-12 Dietz Street

The nature of the action is: Breach of Contract

This action is to obtain a judgment against the defendant for the failure to repay a promissory note for a loan taken from the City of Oneonta to finance the purchase of improved real property located at 50 Elm Street in Oneonta, New York. The amount owed on said note is $22,242.12.

This is not an action to foreclosure a mortgage lien.

4LegalSept4 Legal notice MICHAEL STEIN FUNDRAISING COUNSEL LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/22/14. Office in Otsego Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 366, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalSept4 Legal notice Notice of formation of Efpro Exims LLC. Articles of Org. filed with the Secretary of State, NY (SSNY) on 07/02/2014.

Location: Otsego County. Process against the LLC may be served upon SSNY and copy mail to 482 Main St, Oneonta, 13820 6LegalSept4 Legal notice Notice of Formation of MOHICAN GLEN LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/23/14. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY

Legal notice Notice of formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC): Name: LEAP BOOKS LLC, Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/15/2014. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O LEAP BOOKS LLC, PO Box 63, Otego, NY 13825.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Latest date upon which LLC is to dissolve: No specific date.

6LegalSept11 Legal notice Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company, (LLC) Name: MAPLE GROVE REPAIR LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY on 07/25/14) Office Location: Otsego County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: The LLC, 1385 State Hwy. 205, Oneonta, NY 13820. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

6LegalSept11 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NAME: Empire Grown, LLC, Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/05/2014. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall

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6LegalSept 18 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the entity is P & L Properties I, LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on August 4, 2014. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the limited liability company, upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address within this State to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him is 168 Sugar Hill Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law. 6legalSept18 Legal notice NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY The name of the entity is P & L Properties IV, LLC, for which the Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State on July 31, 2014. The office of said entity is to be located in Otsego County, New York.

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NY 13326. The purpose of the business of such limited liability company is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under the Limited Liability Company Law. 6LegalSept18 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company.

Name: LICANDT LLC , Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/4/2014. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: ℅ LICANDT LLC, 78 Dietz Street, Oneonta, 13820.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

6LegalSept25 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: ROCK SPRING FARM LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 12 August 2014.

Office location: Otsego County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 490 Mill Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalOct2 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: CAMP ED-IME LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 12 August 2014. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 490 Mill Road, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose is

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6LegalOct2 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: STARR CORNER ENTERPRISES LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 25 August 2014. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 34 Grand St, Seymour, CT 06483. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

6LegalOct2 Legal notice Notice of formation of a Limited Liability Company (LLC): Name: Krystal Clear Technologies, LLC. Articles of organization filed with the Secretary of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 08/07/2014. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 14 Averill St., PO Box 159, Otego, NY 13825.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

6LegalOct2 Legal notice Notice of Formation of a NY Limited Liability Company. Name: 157 MAIN COOPERSTOWN LLC. Articles of organization filing date with Secretary of State (SSNY) was 28 August 2014. Office location: Otsego County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and SSNY shall mail copy of process to 25 Eagle Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326. Purpose is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under NYS laws.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

HOMETOWN ONEONTA B-7

At Hampshire House, Joe Libutti’s Life Of Laughter Celebrate On His 100th Birthday 100/From A1 of nine kids – two sisters, six brothers. “I don’t think there was ever a time when he didn’t have a job,” said Nancy. “When he was a kid, he would light the temple stoves on the Sabbath for the Jewish community.”

He met his wife, Julia, through his uncle, and as the two of them were addressing their wedding envelopes at the kitchen table, news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor came across the radio.

During World War II, he was a radio operator, and afterwards, he worked as an air-traffic controller at JFK and at McArthur Airport on Long Island, raising three daughters – Nancy plus

Joanne and Sue – in West Hempstead.

He was also known for his cooking. An article in The Long Island Press’ magazine showed him and Julie preparing “Chicken Libutti” – chicken Alfredo with egg noodles. Hampshire House prepared it for his birthday party. “He was always cooking,” said Abby.

“All my memories are of walking into his house and smelling tomato sauce.”

His real career was making people smile. “He was a clown with the Shriner’s circus,” said Nancy. “He used to go to nursing homes, children’s hospitals and ride in the parade.”

“He had an empty leash that he’d walk around like

there was a dog on it,” said Abby. “And he had one of those big flowers that shot water out of it. Those were his favorite tricks.”

He didn’t just save the clowning around for the circus. “My niece Gina worked in the supermar-

ket, and he would come in wearing his clown outfit,” said Nancy. “She was so embarrassed!”

Spreading joy didn’t stop when he took off his greasepaint. “He used to hand out little cards with his motto printed on them,”

said Nancy. “’May there be peace in your heart, love in your eyes, laughter on your tongue.’ We’d be in the grocery store, and he’d hand them out. He must have given away thousands of them.”

To this day, she keeps one

in her purse. “He’s always been a super-generous person,” said Nancy.

And it’s part of his advice for a long life. “Have a good, kind family,” he said.

Grinning, he added. “My birthday is every day.”

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Camp Owners Petition Governor,Tell DOT: ‘We’re Not Ready To Concede’

PETITION/From A1 from the DOT and protect the shores of Otsego Lake.

The petitions were mailed out in the past few days.

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many, many doors,” said Betty. “We wanted to get enough signatures to show that it’s concerning to a number of people.”

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door, and also put the petition in Cooperstown businesses; pages filled almost as fast as they were handed out. “People are thanking us for trying to preserve the quality of water and the aesthetics of the lake,” said

Betty’s husband, David.

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produce its own deeds to back up its claim. “They’re saying, ‘It’s our land, and we’ll do what we see fit’,” said Jim. “But we’re not ready to concede.”

On the DOT’s demolition list is the Severs’ historic boathouse. “Not too many of the original structures are left,” said Jim. “This boathouse is one of the last.”

“You can see why we’re upset,” said Betty. “It’s a charming old boathouse.”

But more than just saving the boathouse and the camps, the Friends hope to stop the “unsightly” repairs along Route 80 – West Lake Road – where rip-rap is being dumped 40 feet beyond the shoreline to stabilize the slope. “Hazard cones have become a permanent fixture

along the road as it continues to crack and crumble into the lake,” the petition reads. “We would like to see NYSDOT complete and landscape the failing repairs.”

The Otsego Town Board has voted to support the Friends, which has also been in talks with Otsego 2000, the SUNY Biological Field Station and the Otsego County Conservation Association, citing concerns that the proposed demolitions will cause salt and other chemicals to runoff into the lake.

“It’s not just a segment of the road,” said Betty. “It’s the water, it’s the tourist industry. And once the shoreline is gone, it’s gone forever.”

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IN MEMORIAM Nancy Cleveland, 73, Of Lyons Auction Family, Loved Tap Dancing, Skating While Growing Up ONEONTA – Nancy A. Cleveland, 73, who was born in the Lyon’s Auction Room family and worked there for a period, passed away on Monday, Sept. 1, 2014, at home after a courageous battle with cancer.

The family gives special thanks to her caregiver for the past two years, Sue Hoyt, who cared for Nancy with love and dignity.

Nancy was born Jan. 12, 1941 at Parshall Hospital, Oneonta, the daughter of Homer E. Lyon and Agnes O. (Butts) Lyon. She was a graduate of Oneonta High School, Class of 1959.

On Aug. 20, 1961, Nancy married Wesley E. Cleveland in Mount Vision. He passed away on March 25, 2003.

In addition to working at a bookkeeper in the family business, she worked at J.J. Newberry’s, F.W. Woolworth, Family Bargain Center, White Modell, Barker’s and King’s Department Store. She went to work at the Oneonta Job Corps Academy, spending 24 years working in the finance department, retiring in July 2007.

Growing up, Nancy loved roller skating, tap dancing and spending time with her father on the auction truck. Throughout her life she loved playing cards and after retirement spent her Friday nights playing cards with the gang.

She had a green thumb and will always be remembered for her abundance of plants and flowers, including her beloved peonies that lined her driveway. She spent hours working on her puzzles and always enjoyed company stopping by to add their one piece. She will be greatly missed.

She is survived by her son Terry Cleveland and his wife Michele of Mount Vision, her daughter Peggy Rowe of Syracuse, stepdaughter Renee Andrews and her husband Peter of Oneonta, sister and brotherin-law Dorothy (Lyon) and Richard Wooden of Oneonta, brother-in-law and sister-in-law Wilber (Daria) Cleveland, brother-in-law William Schneible, and her grandchildren John Andrews of Utah, Danielle Andrews of Davenport, Katrina Vega of Oneonta, James Cleveland of Newport News, Va., Benjamin Cleveland of Mount Vision and Matthew Rowe of Syracuse; six great-grandchildren and several nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was predeceased by her brother Homer E. Lyon, Jr., her parents Homer E. Lyon and Agnes O. (Butts) Lyon, her sisters and brother-in-laws Rae Mary (Donald) Phoenix and Dorcas Jane (Allen) Thorn, and a great grandson.

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Eleanor Maliszewski, 95; Retired To Hartwick From Long Island HARTWICK – Eleanor P. Maliszewski, a former resident of Long Island who made her home in Hartwick, passed away Sunday morning, Aug. 31, at Otsego Manor. She was 95.

A native of Long Island, Eleanor was born on May 23, 1919, on the family farm in Hicksville. She was a daughter of Edward and Johanna (Loeffler) McGunnigle.

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For years she was employed as a secretary and bookkeeper for several businesses on Long Island, including Doug East Shop and Car Sales in Huntington.

On Nov. 8, 1952, she married Joseph George Maliszewski, also a Long Island native, at St. Ignatius Loyola Roman Catholic Church in Hicksville. They settled in Northport where they raised their family.

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Eleanor enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as knitting, reading and gardening, especially with Joe. She was a communicant at St. Mary’s “Our Lady of the Lake” Roman Catholic Church in Cooperstown.

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Chris Hughes, of Northport, Victoria and Tim West of Hartwick, Patricia and Jeff Altadonna of Centerport, and Christine and Bill Feehan of Aurora, Ill.; eight grandchildren, Joseph Allison and wife, Christie, of Hartwick, Catherine Nagelschmidt and husband, Reid, of Cooperstown, Erin Griffith and husband, Bob, of Hartwick, Christopher J. Hughes and wife, Mollie, of Northport, Ryan West Frable of Hartwick, Timothy West, Jr. and wife, Joelle, of Hartwick, Patrick West, of Utica, and Thomas West and wife, Carolyn, of the State of Maryland; and 11 great grandchildren, Kaitlin Hughes, Alli May, Madison and Bode Nagelschmidt, Hartland, Lillian, Grace and Ellis Frable, and Shelby, Joseph and Andrew West.

Eleanor is also survived by two sisters, Irene Miller of Milford Center and Agnes Ahrens of Flemington, NJ; and one brother, Edward McGunnigle and wife Dorothy of Hicksville, and many nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her husband of 53 years, Joe, who died Jan. 29, 2006; a son-in-law, Robert Gordon Allison, Jr., who died May 19, 2008; two sisters, Cecelia and Frances McGunnigle; and one brother, Gerald McGunnigle.

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