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William L. York
ONEONTA — William L. York, 79, of "Peaceful Flats," Oneonta, formerly of Irish Hill, Delhi, passed away suddenly, Saturday morning, Feb. 21, 2004.
The son of William J. and Lulu (Halcott) York, he was born Jan. 10, 1925, in Arkville, and married Dorothy E. Cornwell, Jan. 6, 1956, in Waukegan, Ill.
A 20-year career U.S. Navy veteran, serving in three wars, Bill was a gunner's mate in the Pacific fleet during World War II, also Korea and Vietnam, followed by 10-years service in the Navy Reserve.
A former 23-year Delhi resident, he was employed as sign foreman on the Delaware County crew of the NYSDOT, until retirement, moving to Oneonta in 1986.
Bill's memberships included the Elm Park United Methodist Church; Post No. 259, American Legion, and Post No. 1206, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Oneonta; "Tin Can Sailors," National Association of Destroyer Veterans; U.S. Fleet Reserve; and Sampson WW II Veterans.
An avid golfer, hunter and fisherman, he was also a member of Woodhaven Golf Club, Oneonta, and Tremperskill Rod & Gun Club, Andes.
Surviving are his wife of 48 years, Dorothy, at home; a sister, Pauline Wallace of Dyersburg, Tenn.; a son, Burton of Rochester; two granddaughters, Tina, and husband, Shayne Moshier of Andes, and Bethany Fairbairn of Delhi; three great-grandchildren; many nieces, nephews and cousins.
He was predeceased by two brothers, three sisters, a grandson and great-grandson.
Friends are invited to call 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday, Feb. 23, when the family will be in attendance at the Hall & Peet Funeral Home, Delhi, and where funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. Tuesday, by the Rev. Eileen Cornwell. Burial, with military honors, will be later in the Woodland Cemetery, Delhi.
Memorial contributions may be made to American Diabetes Association, 356 N. Midler Ave., Syracuse, NY 13206.
Arrangements are entrusted to Robert A. Peet, Delhi.
Ora Manwarren
NORWICH — Ora Manwarren, longtime resident of Springvale Road, Norwich, passed away Friday evening, Feb. 20, 2004, in the Chenango Memorial Hospital.
Ora was born Dec. 19, 1923, in Beaver Meadow, the daughter of George and Myra (Sisson) Brazee.
On Oct. 17, 1946, in North Pharsalia, she married Rolland R. Manwarren Sr., who passed away Jan. 6, 1973.
She had made her home in Norwich for most of her life and worked at the Norwich Knitting Mill. Ora had also baby sat for many area families and had worked cleaning homes and professional offices.
A lady with a friendly smile and a warm heart, Ora loved to get together on weekends with her children and grandchildren to play cards. She also enjoyed doing puzzles, reading western novels, playing the lottery tickets and fishing. She also found much love and contentment with the company of her dog, Sparky, who she treated like one of her own children.
A resident of the Springvale area for many years and living near the Springvale Church, Ora's son, in recent years, named the church after his mother and it is now known as Ora Park.
Ora is survived by her children, Richard Brazee and his wife, Lorraine, of Florida, Ross Manwarren and his wife, Carol, of Norwich, Rolland Manwarren and his wife, Linda, of Norwich, Paul Manwarren and his wife, Yvonne, of Norwich, Marilyn Elven and her husband, Terry, of Minnesota, Wayne Manwarren and his wife, Roxann, of Norwich, Connie Robinson and her husband, Steve Sr., of Milford, Mervin Manwarren of Ithaca, Marcia Robinson and her husband, Paul, of Garrattsville, Evelyn Black and her husband, A.J., and Glenn Manwarren and his wife, Patty, of South New Berlin; 27 grandchildren; and many great-grandchildren. Also surviving are her sisters, Wanda Gregory of New Berlin, Mildred Manwarren of Smyrna, Margaret (Pat) Manwarren of Plymouth, and Doris Monroe of Norwich; and several nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles.
Besides her husband, Rolland; Ora was predeceased by her son, Carl Manwarren; her sisters, Grace Knapp and Daisy Monroe; her brother, Ralph Brazee; and her grandson, Steven Robinson II.
Friends may call at the R.J. Fahy Funeral Home on Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m., and again on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2004, from 11 a.m. until the time of the funeral services for Ora at 1 p.m. from the funeral home, Pastor Lewis Manwarren, Ora's nephew, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Lockport, will officiate.
Interment will be at a later date in the Riverview Cemetery of Oxford.
Donald G. Palmer
CAMILLUS — Donald G. Palmer, 66, of Camillus died Friday, Feb. 20, 2004, at home after a courageous battle with cancer.
Born in Oneonta, on April 8, 1937, he was the son of Clarence Edward Palmer and Agnes Mae Eckert. He lived in central New York before moving to Camillus 10 years ago.
Mr. Palmer was a graduate of Franklin High School and Delaware Literacy Institute. A truck driver for ABF Freight Systems in Syracuse for more than 35 years, he retired in 1998. He was most recently employed by Reserve Supply in East Syracuse for six years.
A member of Syracuse-Geddes Microd and Quarter Midget Club, Mr. Palmer was an avid genealogy enthusiast and enjoyed collecting antiques. He also enjoyed spending time with his family and friends at his camp on Duck Lake.
Mr. Palmer is predeceased by his son, Timothy Guice; brother, Clarence Palmer Jr.; and sister, Barbara Palmer.
Surviving are his wife, Jeanne Updike Ferguson; daughters, Christina "Sam" Palmer of Solvay, Mina Caci of Weedsport, Tonya Palmer of Syracuse, and Donella Rumbaugh of Texas; sons, Seth Palmer of Syracuse, Sean Palmer of Clay, and Randy Guice of Arizona; stepson, Andrew Ferguson of Camillus; brother, John Palmer of Masonville; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at the Buranich Funeral Home, 5431 W. Genesee St., Camillus, with the Rev. Dr. Joseph Jankowiak officiating. Friends may call preceding the funeral from 4 to 7 p.m.
Contributions may be made to Hospice of Central New York, 990 Seventh North St., Liverpool, NY 13088-6148 or to Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central New York, Inc., 120 Madison St., MONY Tower II, Suite 900, Syracuse, NY 13202.
Erma M. Crawford
UNADILLA — Erma M. Crawford of 37 Bridge St., Unadilla, went to be with her Lord on Monday, Feb. 23, 2004, at home.
Erma was born on April 6, 1910, in Chenango Forks, the daughter of Perry B. and Ina Youngs.
Most of her life was spent in the Unadilla area. On Nov. 16, 1935, she married Glen E. Crawford. They shared 33 years of married life together.
Mrs. Crawford was a very active member of the American Legion Auxiliary in Unadilla and the Unadilla Baptist Church. For many years, she taught Sunday School and was a member of the Mission Aid.
Mrs. Crawford is survived by her daughter, Ruth Ann Crawford of Unadilla; her sons, Raie G. Crawford and his wife, Ann, of Sidney, and Philip A. Crawford and his wife, Mary Ellen, of Mount Vision; her sister, Betty Burge of Johnson City; her brothers, Edwin Youngs and his wife, Betty, of Unadilla, and Robert Youngs and his wife, Barbara, of Zephyrhills, Fla.; 11 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Crawford was predeceased by her husband, Glen E. Crawford; her son, Floyd C. Crawford; her sisters, Alice Brock, Persa Calvert, Jean Sparrow and Viola Gilmore; her brother, Leslie Youngs; and her grandsons, Gregory Crawford and Kevin Haney.
Visitation will be held from noon until funeral service at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004, at the Unadilla Baptist Church, 16 Watson St., with the Rev. Brian Cutting officiating.
Interment will be in the spring at Union Church Cemetery in East Sidney.
Arrangements are by the Joyce Funeral Home Inc., of Unadilla.
Floral M. Bill Dutcher
LeROY — Floral M. Bill Dutcher, 83, of West Avenue, LeRoy, died Friday, Feb. 20, 2004, in Strong Memorial Hospital, where she was a patient for the past four days.
Mrs. Dutcher was born in Elmira on June 5, 1920, a daughter of the late Charles and Floral Caward McKeown.
Mrs. Dutcher was an avid gardener, and she and her husband, Mr. Lawrence Dutcher, who died in June of 1993, supplied fruits and vegetables to local stores and restaurants in Walton. Before she retired, she was a home health care business owner for many years.
Mrs. Dutcher was a member of the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary and the Methodist Church of Walton.
Mrs. Dutcher is survived by one son, Mr. Karl W. Bill of LeRoy; one sister, Mrs. Marion Cosgriff (Mickey) of Florida; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services and burial will be in Walton, at the convenience of the family. The time, date and location will be published at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made to the LeRoy Volunteer Ambulance Fund, 1 Tountas Ave., LeRoy, NY 14482 or the charity of the donor's choice.
Arrangements were completed by Lovria's Memorial Chapel, LeRoy.
Milton Rubenfeld
SARASOTA, Fla. — Milton Rubenfeld passed away Saturday, Feb. 21, 2004, in Sarasota, Fla.
He was born Sept. 13, 1919. In his high school years, Milton was an Eagle Scout. He was also a lifeguard who saved lives.
He went to college at both New York University and the University of New Mexico to study art. In New Mexico, he hunted rattlesnakes.
He wanted to fight in World War II before the United States entered the war so he joined the Royal Air Force, leaving there to join the United States Air Force when the U.S. involvement started. In 1948, he and a small group of Americans helped establish the State of Israel and started the Israeli Air Force.
In 1951, he fell in love and married his wife of 52 years, Judy. They owned a Lincoln-Mercury dealership in Oneonta. In the basement of their house, he built a stage for his son and a boat for his daughter.
He always disliked shoveling snow and dreamed of moving to Florida and living on the water. In 1960, he moved his family, which now included a second son, to Sarasota. The family found a home on Sarasota Bay that had been built as a test house by the Navy and was very unconventional — Japanese in style, it had a swimming pool in the center of it and overhead garage doors that opened the house to the outdoors.
Milton loved to fish — from their dock or in the boat that he and the family used often. He owned and operated the Lamplighter Shop for 15 years until his retirement.
He is the father of three children, Paul, Abby and Luke. Paul is the actor better known as Pee-Wee Herman. Abby is a prominent civil rights attorney and mother to Milton's two grandchildren, Lily and Sarah.
Milton had a great sense of humor and loved to laugh and be funny. He was a very modest man who did not like to talk about his many accomplishments.
In the 1980s, he was honored in Israel for his heroism and leadership during the very earliest beginnings of the Israeli Air Force — his plane has been preserved and is displayed outside the airport in Tel Aviv with a plaque bearing his name.
When his children were grown, he and his wife moved to Turtle Beach on Siesta Key, where he showered outdoors every day. He became very interested in raccoons and water birds there. He loved eggs and he loved breakfast. He was rarely seen without a cigar. He never took "no" for an answer and lived his life with great gusto and swagger.
Services will be held in Sarasota this weekend.
George E. Clark
HAMDEN — George Elmer Clark, 88, a lifetime resident of Hamden, died Monday, Feb. 23, 2004, at home with his family by his side.
He was born March 16, 1915, in Hamden, the son of Elmer J. and Mattie (Oliver) Clark.
He married Ruth Rivenburg on Sept. 22, 1941.
George was a plumber for Secords Hardware Store in Hamden from 1948 until 1965, when he became a water plant operator for the New York City Reservoir system, operating from the Downsville dam. He retired in 1982.
George was a man of many hobbies. He enjoyed fishing and hunting, both at home and at the camp he built in the Adirondack Mountains. He also enjoyed bowling, dancing, gardening and caning chairs. He loved baking pancakes for the community breakfast.
He was a 76-year member of the Hamden Presbyterian Church. He was also a lifetime member of the Hamden Fish & Game Club and a longtime member of the NRA.
He was a devoted husband, father and grandfather.
He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Ruth; two sons, Steven S. and Laura Dale Clark of Chenango Lake and James S. and Jean Clark of Delhi; four grandchildren, Melissa, James, Michele and Jennifer; two sisters, Olive "Pete" and Ed Gile of Delhi and Margaret Hebbard of Eagle Bridge; one brother, Elmer Jr. and Audrey Clark of Walton; and many nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by one brother, Ralph "Casey" Clark; and three sisters, Ruth Sweet, Mabel Meyers and Eva Budine.
Funeral services will take place on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004, at the Hamden Presbyterian Church at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Bert More officiating. Family and friends are invited to call at the church prior to the service from 1 to 2 p.m. A coffee hour will be held at the church immediately following the service.
Burial will take place at the Hamden Cemetery in the spring at the convenience of the family.
Memorial contributions in George's memory can be made to Catskill Area Hospice and Palliative Care, Delhi, the Hamden Presbyterian Church or to an organization of one's choice.
Arrangements are with the MacArthur Funeral Home of Delhi.
Jane Averell Hyde Clarke Coulson
WILMINGTON, Del. — Jane Averell Hyde Clarke Coulson died Feb. 15, 2004, in Wilmington, Del., after a short illness.
She was born Oct. 23, 1919, in Cooperstown, a daughter of Emily Ryerson Clarke Cooke and George Hyde Clarke of Hyde Hall, Cooperstown.
Jane graduated from Fox Hollow School in 1937 and from Smith College in 1941. She was a member of the American Red Cross Overseas Service from 1943-45.
She married Lt. Commander George Tyler Coulson in Australia in 1944.
She was active in the Colonial Dames in the State of Delaware; a past president of the Ladies Auxiliary of Christ Church, Cooperstown; and a past member of the Boards of Trustees of LEAF, the Catskill Symphony, and Leatherstocking Theatre. She was also a life member of the M.I. Bassett Hospital Auxiliary and of the Friends of Hyde Hall.
An ardent tennis player and an enthusiastic golfer and skier, she was a member of the Cooperstown Country Club and the Otsego Golf Club.
Jane is survived by her son, Joseph R. Coulson, and his wife, Carrie (Zontine) Coulson; two grandchildren, Sammy and Lucy Coulson; a brother, Arthur R. Clarke of Cooperstown; two sisters, Anne Clarke Logan of Cooperstown and Emily Ryerson Machado of Miami, Fla.; and a half-brother, Thomas Hyde Clarke of Springfield Center.
She was predeceased by three sons.
A memorial service will be held in the spring at St. Mary's Church in Springfield Center.
Contributions may be made in Jane's memory to St. Mary's Church, Springfield Center, NY 13468, or to the American Red Cross, 620 East Main St., Endicott, NY 13760.
Barrett A. Clarke
OAKSVILLE — Mr. Barrett ("Barry") Anthony Clarke, 70, of Oaksville, and formerly of Wood-Ridge, N.J., died unexpectedly early Monday morning, Feb. 23, 2004, at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown.
He was born on June 1, 1933, at the General Hospital in the City of Passaic, N.J., a son of John Hubert and Margaret Grace (nee Smith) Clarke.
He married the former Joyce Mary Holecek on April 7, 1956, in Assumption Catholic Church in Wood-Ridge.
Raised in Wood-Ridge, Barry graduated from Wood-Ridge High School and was then employed as a pinsetter for the Eclipse Bowling Alley in Hasbrouck Heights.
On May 4, 1953, he entered the National Guard of New Jersey and was later inducted into the United States Army. Barry served with the 104th Armored Engineer Battalion during the Korean War and was honorably discharged from the National Guard of New Jersey on April 22, 1956, and later received his honorable discharge from the United States Army Reserves on May 25, 1960.
Upon leaving the Army, Barry was employed by Curtis-Wright, an airplane parts manufacturer in Wood-Ridge. Soon after, he became a self-employed fur trader in New York City.
But his true love was being outdoors and working for himself with trees. He began by doing landscaping and tree surgery and eventually started his own business, Clarke Tree Co., Inc., based in Wood-Ridge. Throughout his life, he planted thousands and thousands of trees for municipalities, parks, and new home contractors throughout New Jersey and on Staten Island. In 1980, Barry purchased more than 100 acres on Parslow Road in Oaksville, where he planted more than 30,000 shade trees.
In 1997, he and his wife, Joyce, his companion in life and business, moved from New Jersey and settled permanently on the tree farm. Besides planting and selling trees, Barry's passions also extended to antiques and fishing. He was quite knowledgeable about antiques and enjoyed buying, restoring and selling many pieces of furniture. He also had a passion for fishing and clamming, and enjoyed his cabin cruiser based in Southampton, Long Island.
A member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 3616 in Wood-Ridge, he enjoyed living in the Cooperstown area, but always had a special love for New Jersey.
Barry is survived by his wife of 47 years, Joyce, of Oaksville; one daughter, Bonnie Clarke of Cooperstown and her daughter, Candice Clarke, of Boston, Mass.; one son, Barry ("Butch") Clarke and his wife, Jodi, and their son, James Anthony Clarke, all of Florida; one brother, Justin Clarke and his wife, Audrey, of California; two nephews and one niece; and his beloved dog, Peke.
At the request of Barry's family, there will be no calling hours or services.
Arrangements are under the direction of Connell, Dow & Deysenroth, funeral directors, in Cooperstown.
William C. Hosier
ONEONTA — William C. Hosier of Oneonta passed away suddenly at East Point, Fla., on Feb. 19, 2004.
Born in Delhi on Jan. 20, 1942, he was the son of Marvin and Nellie (Davis) Hosier.
Bill was a graduate of Margaretville Central School. He was a self-taught contractor with Old World values. His works are admired by many.
He enjoyed vacationing in Florida, fishing, eating oysters, his numerous friends, and playing cards with his brother and sister-in-law, Francis and Barbara.
Bill had deep-rooted family values. The loves of his life were his wife, Linda, of 41 years; his children, Tammy, Jeff, Tracy, Debbie and Leon; his grandchildren, Erin, Matthew, Abigail, Laken, Andrew, Cheyanne, Jakob, Bailey and "Mabel"; and his four doxies, Maggie, Ginger, Mary and Baby.
He was predeceased by his parents and one brother, John Hosier.
Friends are invited to call at the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta, on Thursday, Feb. 26, during the day or in the evening from 7 to 8, at which time the family will be in attendance.
A graveside service will be held in the spring in the Sanford Cemetery in New Kingston.
Arrangements are by the Lester R. Grummons Funeral Home, Oneonta.
Orson G. Mattice
SOUTH GILBOA — Orson G. Mattice, 72, of Grand Gorge, South Gilboa area, died peacefully at home on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2004, with his family at his side after a long bout with cancer.
He worked for years as a mechanic for Greendell Packing in Prattsville and for the Town of Roxbury Highway Department.
Orson is survived by his wife, Mildred; and four sons, Orson Jr., Thomas and Scott, all of Stamford, and John of Ashland. Also surviving are two brothers; six sisters; four granddaughters; two great-grandsons; and several nieces and nephews.
There will be no calling hours, and services will be private.
Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to the Hall Funeral Home, Stamford, under the direction of William A. Tari.
