Obituaries

Robert S. Reed. 59, of Catskill, died Monday, Sept. 15, 2008 at Albany Medical Center where he had been a patient for the past three weeks. He was born in Margaretville on December 12, 1948 to the late Stanley and Virginia Liddle Reed. Bob graduated from Andes Central School, class of 1967, earned his bachelor’s degree from Northeast Missouri State and master’s degree from Russell Sage.
He married the former Susan Shaver on September 10, 1969.

Bertha Cammer, 94, of Roxbury, passed away Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008 at Mountainside Residential Care Center in Margaretville. She was born July 27, 1914, the daughter of Orley and Effie (Morse) Slauson. She married Lynn Cammer on June 1, 1933, in Roxbury.
Bertha was a cook at Kirkside Adult Home in Roxbury and a seamstress.

Richard E. Finch, 76, of Roxbury and Summerfield, Florida, passed away Monday, Aug. 25, 2008 at the Margaretville Memorial Hospital. He was born August 9, 1932 in Margaretville, son of the late Lloyd and Mabel Hammond Finch. Dick was a Halcottsville resident since 1957 and a part-time resident of Florida for almost 30 years. He was a member and chief of the Halcottsville Fire Department for many years.

Gloria Dolores Bergmann, 86, of Margaretville, died Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008 at Mountainside Residential Care Center, Margaretville. She was born in Brooklyn, the daughter of George A. and Marie L. (Boysen) Logan. She married Frank Bergmann.

Timothy ReillyTimothy Laurence Reilly, 23, of New York City and Fleischmanns, passed away on July 28, 2008 in Binghamton. He was born in New York City where he attended PS 87, The Delta program at M.S. 54, and was a third generation graduate of Stuyvesant High School. He majored in computer science at Binghamton University.

Rosemarie (Sandy) Berrio, 65, of Roxbury, passed away Monday, Aug. 4, 2008 at her home. She was born May 11, 1943 in Germany, the daughter of Edmund and Rosal Cerkaski. Sandy married Michael X. Berrio on July 30, 1977, in Roxbury. She moved to Roxbury in 1977 from Islip, Long Island.

There will be a memorial service for Gay Eppenbach Purvine as a celebration of her life, on Saturday, Aug. 16 at 2 p.m. at St. James Episcopal Church, Lake Delaware. Gay, 65, passed away on December 13, 2007 from cancer, at her home with her loved ones around her.
She was born April 10, 1942 in Weaver Hollow, Andes. She attended Andes Central School where she graduated as salutatorian of her class.

Karl Theodore (Ted) Scholl, 90, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008 after a short illness.
He was born in Hoboken, NJ June 24, 1918, the son of Agnes and Karl Scholl.
He graduated from Long Island City High School in 1937 and also from SUNY Cobleskill in 1939.
Ted was a successful dairy farmer in the Town of Blenheim until 1969 when the New York Power Authority condemned the farm to build the Blenheim-Gilboa power project. He then worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture office in Cobleskill and simultaneously started a locksmith business which he ran until 1999 when he moved to Florida.