Obituaries

Alice K. Grenolds, 85, of Binghamton, passed away early Tuesday morning, August 7, 2012 at Lourdes Hospital, Binghamton.

Alice was born October 16, 1926 in Roxbury, the daughter of the late Robert and Kathryn (Longyear) VanValkenburgh. She was a graduate of Roxbury High School. In December of 1955, she married Merryon Grenolds. He died in December 1997. Baptized in Jay Gould Dutch Reformed Church in Roxbury, she moved to Binghamton and was an active member of the First Baptist Church in Vestal Center.

Marge K. Springer, 69, a resident of Roxbury Run, died Friday Aug. 10, 2012 after battling acute leukemia for almost a year.

Marge was born in Fall River, MA and grew up in Takoma Park, MD.  She lived in Middletown, NJ for over 35 years before moving with her husband Artie to Bradenton, FL in 2006.  The Catskills were their special mountain retreat.

She graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson School of Dental Hygiene in 1963 and practiced the profession she loved for 43 years in New Jersey and New York.  

Peggy (Ruth) Every Gale, 81, late of Phoenicia, died Sunday Aug. 5, 2012 at the Margaretville Hospital. She was born January 12, 1931 in Mt. Tremper.

Peggy went to school in a one-room schoolhouse in Mt. Tremper until finally being bussed to Kingston High School. Her first job after high school was working as a telephone operator in Phoenicia. This position was short lived as the area went to the dial system the following year. It was in the telephone operator’s office where she met her husband Alonzo T. Gale. The office was located in his grandmother’s house.

Stanley Lester Squires Jr., 65, of Sun City Center, Florida passed away at 2 p.m. on July 29, 2012.
He was born on July 29, 1947 to Stanley and Elsa Squires in Margaretville. He lived and worked in Margaretville all his life and met his beautiful wife of 32 years, Edna, there as well.  They moved to Florida in July of 2000 and spent many wonderful days combing the beaches for sharks’ teeth and shells. They traveled as often as they could and enjoyed spending time with all their family, near and far.

Dorissa Carol Smith, 80, of Margaretville passed away on July 25, 2012, at the Mountainside Residential Care Center in Margaretville.

Dorissa was born on October 23, 1931, daughter of Carroll and Evelyn VanBenschoten in Margaretville. A lifelong member of the Margaretville community, she attended Margaretville High School where she was a standout cheerleader. After high school, Dorissa briefly moved to Elizabeth, NJ to attend nursing school at Elizabeth General Hospital and returned to her home in the Catskills as a registered nurse.

This past weekend marked the one-year anniversary of the passing of Thomas H. Bergmann. Bergmann, 59, died unexpectedly on July 27, 2011 in Cancun, Mexico, near where he had a vacation home.

James McArdle, 63, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, July 26, 2012.
Born on March 6, 1949 to Frank and Francis McArdle of Great Neck, Jim was a graduate of Great Neck South High School.

After attending Kent State University, Jim moved to Oneonta in 1973 to begin his first business venture with a high school friend, Steve Davidson. Together, they opened JJ’s, a Jewish-style delicatessen. It was there that Jim met a young SUCO student Dorothy Brophy who became a waitress at the deli. This was the beginning of their 39-year-long love affair.

Jane E. Muller, 86, a resident of Fleischmanns, died on July 26, 2012 at Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown.

Jane was born on April 16, 1926 at Weehawken, NJ, the daughter of James and Ethel (Ram) Hydell. She married William Muller who died in 1991.
She was employed as a secretary at the American Tobacco Company in New York City for 40 years.

Jane is survived by two nephews, George and John Muller; a sister-in-law, Anne Muller; and a cousin, Rose Hessel.

 C. Ray Huggins, MD, 92, of Wilmington, DE, formerly of Newark, DE, passed away on Sunday, July 22, 2012.

Dr. Huggins was born in Cumberland, MD, on December 24, 1919, son of the late Cecil Ray Huggins and Marion King Chatfield Huggins.   During the Great Depression in 1930, the family moved to Andes, where he graduated from Andes Central School in 1937.  He would go on to graduate from Cornell University in 1941 with an A.B. in chemistry and from Cornell University Medical College in 1943.

Robert V. Helde, 80, of Margaretville died July 20, 2012 at his home.
He was born in the Bronx on August 4, 1931, the son of Carl and Henrietta (Finger) Helde.
He graduated from Saunders Trade and Technical School in Yonkers in 1949 after receiving a Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award.

Bob enlisted in the U.S. Navy in October 1950 and served until November 1954. During this period of time, he held billets at NAAS Oceana, VA and aboard the U.S.S. Wm. M. Wood DD-715.

He married Sandra C. Griffin in Scarborough in 1956. They had two children, Diane L. and Steven R.