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052 - Nedra A. (Laird) Liebert, 73, of Saratoga Springs, NY, passed away Tuesday, July 29, 2025. Nedra mainly worked in the insurance field. She also worked as a teacher's aide in the Saratoga Springs City School District in the 1980s.
Posted here on Tuesday, August 19, 2025.

051 - Betty Jean (Elizabeth) Haner, nicknamed BJ, 95, passed away on August 8, 2025, in Vero Beach, FL. She was the librarian at Saddlewood Elementary school in the South Colonie Central School District. After retiring, she was very active in the South Colonie Retired Teachers Association.
Posted here on Tuesday, August 19, 2025.

050 - Angelina "Angie" R. Fountain, 91, passed away July 28, 2025, in Glenville, NY. Angie attended Mont Pleasant High School in Schenectady, after which she embarked on a career as a secretary for General Electric and then the Schenectady School District where she retired after many years.
Posted here on Saturday, August 16, 2025.

049 - Lois Arlene Frederick, 95, known affectionately as Arlene to her friends and loved ones, passed away Wednesday, August 13, 2025 in Schenectady. Arlene's professional life was dedicated to inspiring young minds as a physical education teacher in the South Colonie Central School District, a role she cherished until her retirement in June of 1985.
Posted here on Saturday, August 16, 2025.

048 - Kay Moody, 74 of Spring Hill, Tenn., passed away, on July 20, 2025. She dedicated much of her career to education, serving as a longtime teacher with the Coxsackie-Athens Central School District.
Posted here on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.

047 - Michael D. Tolan, 56, of Clifton Park, died July 20, 2025. He served as the Principal of Bishop Maginn High School in Albany, N.Y., until the school's closing in 2022. He returned to the classroom and continued his career in education at O'Rourke Middle School in Burnt Hills, teaching Social Studies.
Posted here on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.

046 - Michael James "Coach" Carney, 83, of Saratoga Springs, passed away June 22, 2025. From 1966 to 1969, he worked for the United States Department of the Interior, as an Educational Specialist, on the Island of Truk, in the South Pacific. Michael began his long career as an educator in Saratoga Springs, in 1971, where he taught in Caroline Street School, Geyser Road School, and Maple Avenue School.
Posted here on Thursday, July 10, 2025.

045 - Dorothy J. Carpenter, 93, of Scotia, N.Y., died on July 1, 2025. She taught Home Economics Education in Hillsdale, N.Y, Oakfield, N.Y., Batavia, N.Y. (Dept. Chairperson), and retired from the former Linton High School (now Schenectady High School) in 1988.
Posted here on Thursday, July 10, 2025.

044 - Bernard "Bernie" Joseph Phillips, 64, of Latham, passed away on June 15, 2025. Bernie had a 30-year teaching career, starting in special education with BOCES and later as a physics teacher at Schenectady High School.
Posted here on Thursday, July 10, 2025.

043 - Honora M. Hatfield, 84, died June 23, 2025. A resident of Greenwich, NY, she served as an elementary teacher for 38 years at Greenwich Central School before retiring. What mattered most to Honora was her career as a teacher and being a kind person.
Posted here on Friday, July 4, 2025.

042 - Martha T. Holden, 77, of Schenectady, died April 16, 2025. Martha was a fifth grade teacher for the City School District in Troy, N.Y., for most of her career. Her friendly smile and happy approach to life will be truly missed.
Posted here on Friday, July 4, 2025.

041 - Johanna Mary (Breen) Bak, 80, of Glens Falls, passed away, Sunday, June 1, 2025. She dedicated more than 35 years to teaching, starting in parochial schools and later at Watervliet Elementary School, where she taught both third and fourth grades. Her influence extended well beyond the classroom, she served for four years as Teachers Union President.
Posted here on Friday, July 4, 2025.

040 - Susan Helen Masi, 85, of Scotia, NY, died April 30, 2025. Susan was a Computer Room Aide in the Computer Assisted Instruction Program at Lisha Kill Middle School in the South Colonie Central School District. Sue’s motto was PHD (Prayer. Help someone. Do a good deed.)

Posted here on Thursday, June 19, 2025.

039 - Judith R. Allen, 81, of Sarasota, Florida, died June 5, 2025. A dedicated educator, Judith spent decades nurturing young minds in the West Albany School in the South Colonie School District.. Her commitment extended beyond the classroom; she played a pivotal role in establishing teachers' unions across New York, ensuring that the voices of educators were heard and respected.
Posted here on Tuesday, June 17, 2025.

038 - John A. Richard, 94, a longtime resident of Wynantskill, passed away Wednesday, May 28, 2025. In 1952, he was drafted into the US Army. He served in the Korean War with the 1319 74th Engineers Heavy Equipment Co. as a mechanic. After that, he did what he enjoyed most, teaching about cars, and coaching several winning trouble shooting teams at Hudson Valley Community College.
Posted here on Tuesday, June 17, 2025.

037 - Rosemarie A. Roesch, 82, and a lifelong resident of Albany, died May 22, 2025. Rosemarie taught kindergarten and second grade for most of her 36 year career at School 19 in Albany, now New Scotland Elementary, her neighborhood school.
Posted here on Tuesday, June 17, 2025.

036 - William Underhill, 88, of Rexford, passed away on June 2, 2025. He taught French at Averill Park Central from 1961 to 1963, Mechanicville High School from 1963 to 1966. From 1966 until his retirement in 1998, he was a teacher of French at Shaker H.S. He also taught Americanization and English as a Second Language classes at night, in Schenectady, from 1962 until 1971. Over his 37 years as a teacher, he taught students from grades five to 12.
Posted here on Friday, June 6, 2025.

035 - Mary Genevieve Miccio, 76, formerly of Troy, entered into eternal life, Sunday, June 1, 2025. She began her teaching career in 1972 at the former St. Joseph's School in Cohoes, and went on to teach 3rd grade at Harmony Hill School in Cohoes for 24 years until retiring in 2010.
Posted here on Friday, June 6, 2025.

034 - Gloria Seymour (nee Jenkins), 92, of Niskayuna, N.Y., passed away on May 29, 2025. Her teaching career began in the Troy City Schools, where she taught for two years before moving to the Niskayuna Central School District, where she taught for 38 years, retiring in 1997.
Posted here on Friday, June 6, 2025.

033 - Carolyn Ann Reichling Landau "Carol," 84, of Colonie, died on May 25, 2025. Carol went to work as a secretary in the South Colonie School District, but as her husband, was a local labor leader, when the teachers went on strike in 1975, she refused to cross the picket line and was subsequently fired by the District. After fighting her dismissal in court, she won the right to be hired back. She sued the District, won her position back, but never went back to work, resigning her position.

Posted here on Friday, May 30, 2025.

032 - Iris Elaine Rosen Israel, 78, of Latham, died May 8, 2025. Iris was proud of her accomplishments as a special education teacher for Rensselaer-Columbia-Greene BOCES and was devoted to caring for her students.
Posted here on Friday, May 16, 2025.

031 - Robert F. Swanick, 90, of Troy, passed away Monday, April 28, 2025. He was a teacher and coach at Tamarac High School. He went on to become principal at Tamarac and later, principal at Lansingburgh before retiring in 1989. After retiring, he worked part-time as an admissions counselor at Hudson Valley Community College until 2017.
Posted here on Sunday, May 4, 2025.

030 - Dorothy M. Negri, 84, of Schenectady, passed away April 26, 2025. She started her career in English/Drama at Mohonasen JR High/HS, and local schools. She completed her career with over 10 years at Capital Region BOCES as a teacher of the New Visions Health Career Program.
Posted here on Wednesday, April 30, 2025.

029 - Michele A. McGinn, 71, of Colonie, passed away on April 20, 2025. A lifelong resident of Colonie, Michele began her teaching career at The Albany Academy for Girls and later served for two decades as a reading teacher in the South Colonie School District,
Posted here on Monday, April 28, 2025.

028 - Mary E. Nelson, 89, of South Glens Falls, passed away Friday afternoon, April 11, 2025. Mary grew up in South Glens Falls and was a graduate of South Glens Falls High School. She worked for over 30 years as a secretary at the Harrison Avenue Elementary School in South Glens Falls.
Posted here on Tuesday, April 15, 2025.

027 - J. Adam Cole, Jr., 46, died on April 2, 2025. Adam taught math at Northville Central School as well as serving as a JV Boys Basketball Coach and Varsity Baseball Coach. He had the privilege of serving with not only the Boy Section II Committee but at States for both boys and girls basketball.
Posted here on Monday, April 14, 2025.

026 - Robert C. Failing, Jr., 83, of St. Johnsville, NY passed away March 11, 2025. Robert was first employed as an Admissions Counselor at Mohawk Valley Community College. He then accepted a teaching position with the Canajoharie Central School District where he taught elementary education for 24 years.
Posted here on Monday, April 14, 2025.

025 - Jay Harris Sherman, 86, of Schenectady, died Wednesday, April 9, 2025. Jay's professional career began as an English teacher (five years) at Colonie Central High School in South Colonie.. He left teaching to have successful careers in Medical Writing, Technical Writing, and Politics.
Posted here on Monday, April 14, 2025.

024 - Thomas Anthony Filion, 84, of Saratoga Springs, died on March 25, 2025. He started his career in Beekmantown Central Schools in Plattsburg, NY where he taught in and served as head of the Industrial Arts Department. He retired from Saratoga-Warren BOCES in 1995 after 33 years of service teaching and being a guidance counselor.
Posted here on Tuesday, April 8, 2025.

023 - Margaret M. Ethier, 84, of Latham, passed away April 2, 2025. She taught at several different schools in Watervliet, Cohoes, and Troy over the years. In 1980, she began employment as a supervisor at the NYS Dept of Health & Human Services and worked there until her retirement in 2003.
Posted here on Tuesday, April 8, 2025.

022 - Harry Lomasney, 84, of Saratoga springs, passed away on March 20, 2025. He proudly served his country in the United States Air Force. Harry was a coach and history teacher at Greenwich High School for more than 20 years and later coached at Skidmore College and Saratoga Central Catholic.
Posted here on Friday, April 4, 2025.

021 - Mary Joan (nee Nertney) Van Kampen, 95, of Watervliet, passed away Friday, March 21, 2025. Mary Joan taught in Cohoes and Syracuse. After raising her family, she served as the number one substitute teacher in the North Colonie elementary school system until her permanent retirement in 1992.
Posted here on Friday, April 4, 2025.

020 - Kathleen A. Weatherwax, 81, of Hoosick Falls, passed away on March 12, 2025. She retired as a teacher from the Cherry Plains School District which is now the Berlin Central School District, located in eastern Rensselaer County.
Posted here on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

019 - Linda Strauss Byer, 78, of East Greenbush, N.Y., died on Friday evening, March 7, 2025. She had been employed as a librarian at Russell Sage College, RPI, and the East Greenbush School System.
Posted here on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

018 - Elizabeth Goodman, 84, of Loudonville, died March 1, 2025. Beth spent over 40 years teaching kindergarten in South Colonie at several schools, including West Albany and the new Roessleville.
Posted here on Sunday, March 9, 2025.

017 - Barbara A. Bishop, 85, passed away March 3, 2025. She had a long-standing career with Capital Region B.O.C.E.S, where she worked for nearly three decades until her retirement in 2000. She was honored with the Education Assistant Professional Award for the State of New York, and was an active member of the NYS United Teachers Union.
Posted here on Sunday, March 9, 2025.

016 - Maud "Hope" Davis, 91, of Schaghticoke, passed away Monday, March 3, 2025. Hope retired from the Brittonkill Central School District in Brunswick, where she had been a teacher for 24 years. She taught fourth and & fifth grades at Tamarac Elementary School.
Posted here on Sunday, March 9, 2025.

015 - Catharine Jennings Kilby, 70, of Schaghticoke, passed on February 28, 2025. Cathy's career was focused on teaching Math, first at Hudson Valley Community College, and then later at several regional central schools, including Hoosick Falls, Cambridge, and Granville.
Posted here on Sunday, March 9, 2025.

014 - Margaret Lofthouse, 85, originally from Corinth, NY, and lately of Venice, FL, passed away Tuesday, February 4, 2025. She had a distinguished 25+ year career as a third-grade teacher at Corinth Central School.
Posted here on Saturday, March 1, 2025.

013 - Felix "Phil" Wielewinski, 95, of Colonie, bravely crossed the River Jordan, trumpet in hand, on February 22, 2025. As a young man, he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War as the camp bugler, "sleeping in" by mistake only once. He shaped many young minds in South Colonie Schools, where he was a loved and respected music teacher.

Posted here on Thursday, February 27, 2025.

012 - Muriel H. Falkey, 103, of Greenville, passed away peacefully on Friday, February 21, 2025. Muriel taught Business Law, Advanced Accounting, and Typing at Greenville Central School, retiring in 1976.
Posted here on Thursday, February 27, 2025.

011 - Christine A. Michaels, 77, of Mechanicville, died February 14, 2025. Christine was a sixth grade math and science teacher for the Shenendehowa School District for 33 years.
Posted here on Thursday, February 27, 2025.

010 - David C. Pause, 85, of Ballston Lake, entered into eternal life on Monday, February 17, 2025. He had been a high school teacher in the Schenectady City School System.
Posted here on Thursday, February 27, 2025.

009 - Patricia "Pat" A. Stone, 84, of Clifton Park, passed away February 9, 2025. Pat had been an educator for the Shenendehowa Central School District for over 40 years, where she worked as a first-grade teacher, reading teacher, administrator, and in Staff Development, teaching, training and coaching the school's curriculum to other teachers.
Posted here on Wednesday, February 26, 2025.

008 - Jean F. Michaniw, 75, of Schenectady, passed away on Sunday, February 2, 2025. For 36 years, she imparted her love of music to the young minds at Ichabod Crane Primary School. Even after her retirement, Jean continued to inspire others by teaching music at St. Kateri Tekakwitha for three more years.
Posted here on Monday, February 24, 2025.

007 - Mary Patrick Milford, 75, of Halfmoon, formerly of Clifton Park and Glenville, died Thursday, February 20, 2025. In 1972, Mary's first full-time teaching position was in a newly integrated school system in Georgia. Mary retired from Schenectady City School District, where she had been a Middle School and High School reading teacher, then a literacy coach for over 35 years.
Posted here on Monday, February 24, 2025.

006 - Jeanne Capwell Harris, 93, a decades-long resident of Colonie, N.Y., and more recently of Lakewood, Colo., passed away February 1, 2025. She began teaching in Troy, N.Y., before settling in South Colonie in 1959, where she raised her family and taught reading before spending 30 years shaping young minds at Forest Park Elementary School.
Posted here on Monday, February 24, 2025.

005 - Patrick B. Flynn, 84, of Albany died on Saturday, January 25, 2025. Pat juggled his first teaching job at Hackett Middle School and his young family, while earning a master's in Special Education at The College of Saint Rose. He taught in the Guilderland School District and later for BOCES.
Posted here on Monday, February 24, 2025.

004 - Ronald A Pintuff, 78, of Clifton Park, N.Y., passed away January 24, 2025. After graduating from college, he returned to the Shenendehowa School District, where he had been a student, and taught history and economics.
Posted here on Thursday, January 13, 2025.

003 - Michael Anthony "Mick" Durante, 91, of Latham, passed away Saturday, February 1, 2025. He taught Social Studies to seventh and eighth graders in South Colonie Schools for 32 years at Lishakill, Sand Creek and Saddlewood middle schools.
Posted here on Tuesday, February 4, 2025.

002 - Dolores M. Ruscitto, 93, of Albany, passed away January 7, 2025. She taught fourth grade at Citizen Edmond Genet School (East Greenbush Central School District) her entire career, retiring in 1996.
Posted here on Tuesday, February 4, 2025.

001 - Stephen Benedict Lynch, 76, of Latham, passed away January 3, 2025. Stephen pursued higher education, earning a Bachelor's degree from S.U.N.Y. Oneonta, a Master's degree from The College of Saint Rose, and an Advanced Certificate from S.U.N.Y. Albany. He proudly served his country in the United States Navy from 1970 to 1973.
Posted here on Wednesday, January, 29, 2025.