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Tuesday, April 18, 2017Bottini Funeral Home, Rome.Cole, Helen L., 84, of Oriskany, died April 16, 2017. Arrangements by Dimbleby, Friedel, Williams & Edmunds Funeral Home, Whitesboro.Damm, H. Douglas, 78, of Cicero, died April 16, 2017. Arrangements by New Comer Funeral Home, Syracuse.Lindfield, Mary Jane, 76, of Utica, died April 17, 2017. Arrangements by McGrath, Myslinski, Karboski & Nunn Funeral Directors, Utica.Lynch, Rita Jo, 72, of Middleville, died April 16, 2017. Arrangements by Autenrith Funeral Home, Newport.Pavlot, Frank S., 66, of Marcy, died April 15, 2017. Arrangements by Heintz Funeral Home, N. Utica.Plehn, Geraldine E., 95, of Utica, died April 17, 2017. Arrangements by McGrath, Myslinski, Karboski & Nunn Funeral Directors, Utica.Walton, Alma, 80, of Sauquoit, died April 15, 2017. Arrangements by Smith Funeral Home, Sauquoit...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017Our kitchen table was full of grading materials. ... She spent endless hours during summer vacation preparing her room."A 1975 graduate of Morton East High school in Cicero, Turnquist was inspired to become involved in activities to help developmentally disabled children and young adults because of her brother Ken's special needs. She served as a Sunday school and vacation Bible school teacher for youths. In high school, Turnquist was involved in the Girl Scouts' Cadet program.Turnquist earned a master's degree in reading -- her lifelong passion -- from Northeastern Illinois University in 1983. During the summer of 1983, she attended an Illinois Education Association Summer Leadership Academy at Illinois State University in Normal, where she met Jerry.She appeared in "Who's Who Among American Teachers" and in 1985 was appointed by the Elgin City Council to serve on the city's Sesquicentennial Committee. She was nominated for the Elgin Junior Woman's Club "Outstanding Young Woman of Elgin" award in 1992."She was driven and focused in whatever life brought her way," said Sue Welu, a friend of Turnquist and a retired U-46 employee who recently served as interim associate principal at South Elgin High School. "She never gave up. You became a better person by being around her. We went through the highs and lows of our lives together with the times of needing additional support. She never wavered and loved her job."A survivor of two liver transplants, as well as a kidney transplant, Turnquist became an advocate for organ donation and spoke about organ donation to driver's education classes. She also appeared in an Illinois secretary of state pamphlet and participated in American Liver Foundation walks.Jerry Turnquist said he and Kathy recently bought a house in Elgin's Del Webb active adult community and made plans to travel extensively in retirement, but in October she was diagnosed with a ter...
Monday, March 27, 2017You’ll be amazed to learn that John has prepared files full of obituaries for famous New Orleanians years before their actual demise.Finally, we’ll tour famous French Quarter haunts where Chef Duke Locicero introduces us to Café Giovanni’s little girl ghost and then we conjure up the famous cross dressing ghost at Tujague’s! Get ready for a hauntingly good time on this week’s Louisiana Eats!Boules de Tac-TacYields 242 quarts popcorn2 cups Steen's (cane syrup)1 tsp salt1 tsp butterPop the corn and set aside. Boil syrup and salt on medium heat. Stir constantly until syrup forms a ball when dropped into cold water. Add butter and pour mixture over the popped corn. With buttered hands, shape into balls, cool and serve! Popcorn balls may be wrapped in plastic wrap to keep fresh.
Monday, February 06, 2017Sales and F.X. Caprara Harley Davidson.Kenny was an outdoorsman enjoying fishing, hunting, four wheeling, boating, riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle, and drag racing at the ESTA Dragstrip in Cicero and the surrounding area. He especially enjoyed spending time with his family and friends. He was a member of the National Hot Rod Association and the Antwerp American Legion Post #916. Among his survivors are his loving wife of 32 years Gina M. Taylor, Antwerp; his beloved daughter and son in law, Sarah E. and Seth A. Musikant, Rochester; his mother Joann VanBoven, Escalon, CA.; a sister and brother-in-law, Sandra L. and Kevin Brinkman, Salida, CA; a sister Jennifer Johnson, Coeur D'Alene, Idaho; 5 stepbrothers and 2 stepsisters; his faithful friend and companion, grand puppy Captain, and several sister-in-laws, brother-in-laws, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.Kenny is predeceased by his father Kenneth T. Taylor of Norco, CaIn lieu of flowers donations may be made in Kenny’s memory to Ryan’s Wish Foundation C/O Rob and Rita Saidel P.O. Box 326 Gouverneur, NY 13642.Online condolences may be made at www.hartandbrucefh.com.
Monday, January 23, 2017Velma Collier. She graduated from Cooperstown High School and Broome Tech College.Linda worked as a dental hygienist for over 10 years, and then went on to become a teacher assistant for the Cicero-North Syracuse School District.She enjoyed cooking, gardening, ceramics, and most of all, loved spending precious time with her family.She was predeceased by her parents, Arthur and Velma (Kilts) Collier, and her sister, Lillian Lamb.Linda is survived by her husband of 46 years, Robert G. Nuzzo; three children, Lisa Reynolds of Unadilla, Michelle Nuzzo of Clay, and Kristin (Michael) Perez of Liverpool; three grandchildren, Zachary, Colby and Nico; two brothers, Stuart (Lois) Collier of Fayetteville, and Steven (Evelyn) Collier of Cooperstown; her brother-in-law, Larry Lamb of Roseboom, along with many nieces, nephews, and cousins.Linda’s family would like to thank the staff on the 5th Floor Vent Unit at Oneida Healthcare for their care and compassion.A celebration of Linda’s life was Friday, Dec. 16, at the Thomas J. Pirro Jr. Funeral Home, North Syracuse, followed by entombment followed in Woodlawn Cemetery Mausoleum.SHARE: News of Cooperstown, Oneonta, and Otsego County, NY.200...
Monday, January 09, 2017Falbe was aboard the downed plane along with his wife, Carrie, and his two daughters from a previous marriage.The girls — 14-year-old Victoria and 12-year-old Skylar — attended Cicero Preparatory Academy in Scottsdale.“Our sincerest condolences go out to the Falbe family for their tragic loss,” school officials said in a statement. “Grief counselors will be available when school returns Monday.”The sheriff’s office was notified about the missing plane by Scottsdale police.According to the police report, a man told authorities his 31-year-old daughter, son-in-law and two girls didn’t check in after planning to fly to Telluride.The four were on a yearly trip they always take around the Christmas holidays, according to relatives.Police started a search for the family’s cellphone signal, and one was detected near Payson. A state police helicopter, the Civil Air Patrol and sheriff’s searchers on the ground worked together to find the plane.Rescuers had to hike nearly an hour to the site, Shepherd said.“The terrain up there is just really super rugged,” he said. “It’s pretty rough, steep, straight up and down.”...
Monday, November 14, 2016You’ll be amazed to learn that John has prepared files full of obituaries for famous New Orleanians years before their actual demise.Finally, we’ll tour famous French Quarter haunts where Chef Duke Locicero introduces us to Café Giovanni’s little girl ghost and then we conjure up the famous cross dressing ghost at Tujague’s! Get ready for a hauntingly good time on this week’s Louisiana Eats!Boules de Tac-TacYields 242 quarts popcorn2 cups Steen's (cane syrup)1 tsp salt1 tsp butterPop the corn and set aside. Boil syrup and salt on medium heat. Stir constantly until syrup forms a ball when dropped into cold water. Add butter and pour mixture over the popped corn. With buttered hands, shape into balls, cool and serve! Popcorn balls may be wrapped in plastic wrap to keep fresh.
Monday, October 31, 2016She stood 5-feet-10 thanks to what her children said were widely acknowledged as “the best legs on the West Side.”Young Annamae grew up in the “the Island” — where Chicago, Cicero and Oak Park meet near Roosevelt Road and Austin Boulevard. All her life, she stayed close with friends she made at St. Frances of Rome grade school and Siena High School.On her 18th birthday, she received a congratulatory phone call from James Fitzpatrick, who’d been born within hours of her at the same hospital, St. Anthony’s on the West Side. Their moms had become friends during their three-week-long postpartum hospital stays in the era before managed care, when a long stay wasn’t uncommon after giving birth. He wanted to ask her out before enlisting in the Navy during World War II. She liked to say he fell “head over heels” for her.Before they got married in 1948, she studied journalism at Northwestern University on scholarship. Mrs. Fitzpatrick also wrote for Bakers’ Helper magazine until the kids arrived, said another daughter, Maryann Brown. Later, she worked as an administrative assistant at a real estate office.The Fitzpatricks bought a home in Lombard on the GI Bill, and her husband started work as an embalmer. In 1965, at 40, he suffered a heart attack. Pregnant with their eighth child, she jokingly pleaded with James Fitzpatrick: “Do not take the coward’s way out.” He recovered and lived another 33 years.His career flourished after he switched from embalming to selling burial vaults, said their son, Kevin. It probably helped that he used to ply clients with loaves of Mrs. Fitzpatrick’s homemade white, date-nut, cinnamon-raisin and Irish soda bread.Countless times, her kids say, she had them deliver bread, brownies and dinner to neighbors experiencing sorrow and sickness. She also made sure they had holy water in the house.“She ordered it from Lourdes by the case,” said another daughter, Kathryn Elmore. “If they had troubles, they got the soda bread and the holy water.”Her son Jim, a college professor who has a master’s degree and a doctorate, said of his mother, “I’ve never met anybody who could listen and understand so quickly the complexity of anybody’s problems.”Mrs. Fitzpatrick will be buried with a special Tiffany bracelet from her grandchildren. They engraved it with one of her favorite sayings, made as she observed her good-looking extended brood: “Not a dog in the bunch.”Visitation is from noon to 7:07 p.m. Sunday at Gibbons Funeral Home in Elmhurst, with a funeral Mass at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Lombard.Annamae Fitzpatrick (the red-haired woman in the front next to the groom) and her extended family. Facebook photo...
Monday, June 13, 2016Before the Bohemians of Little Village migrated west to what John Budilovsky called the “bramborova slechta” — the “potato aristocracy” strongholds of Cicero, Berwyn and Riverside — there were at least 27 Bohemian funeral directors in Chicago.Budilovsky, a mortician, was one of the liveliest dancers at the Undertakers’ Balls organized by the Bohemian Funeral Directors’ Association. His moves gained him entry to the prestigious 400 Club at the Aragon Ballroom in Uptown and the Trianon in Woodlawn. Those star dancers received free admission in exchange for dispensing dance lessons.At the Trianon in 1948, a graceful woman caught his eye: Leona “Lee” Turlo, a fellow member of the 400 Club. He invited her to a Halloween party. When he had to cut the date short — to pick up a body — she didn’t mind. He was impressed.Young Lee Turlo, who would marry John Budilovsky. / Family photoAfter they got married, she became the make-up artist for the bodies at the Budilovsky Funeral Home at 2611 S. Lawndale. They built up the business, moving it to Westchester in 1957 and renaming it the Budilovsky Westchester Funeral Home.Mrs. Budilovsky, 94, died J...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017Bottini Funeral Home, Rome.Cole, Helen L., 84, of Oriskany, died April 16, 2017. Arrangements by Dimbleby, Friedel, Williams & Edmunds Funeral Home, Whitesboro.Damm, H. Douglas, 78, of Cicero, died April 16, 2017. Arrangements by New Comer Funeral Home, Syracuse.Lindfield, Mary Jane, 76, of Utica, died April 17, 2017. Arrangements by McGrath, Myslinski, Karboski & Nunn Funeral Directors, Utica.Lynch, Rita Jo, 72, of Middleville, died April 16, 2017. Arrangements by Autenrith Funeral Home, Newport.Pavlot, Frank S., 66, of Marcy, died April 15, 2017. Arrangements by Heintz Funeral Home, N. Utica.Plehn, Geraldine E., 95, of Utica, died April 17, 2017. Arrangements by McGrath, Myslinski, Karboski & Nunn Funeral Directors, Utica.Walton, Alma, 80, of Sauquoit, died April 15, 2017. Arrangements by Smith Funeral Home, Sauquoit...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017Our kitchen table was full of grading materials. ... She spent endless hours during summer vacation preparing her room."A 1975 graduate of Morton East High school in Cicero, Turnquist was inspired to become involved in activities to help developmentally disabled children and young adults because of her brother Ken's special needs. She served as a Sunday school and vacation Bible school teacher for youths. In high school, Turnquist was involved in the Girl Scouts' Cadet program.Turnquist earned a master's degree in reading -- her lifelong passion -- from Northeastern Illinois University in 1983. During the summer of 1983, she attended an Illinois Education Association Summer Leadership Academy at Illinois State University in Normal, where she met Jerry.She appeared in "Who's Who Among American Teachers" and in 1985 was appointed by the Elgin City Council to serve on the city's Sesquicentennial Committee. She was nominated for the Elgin Junior Woman's Club "Outstanding Young Woman of Elgin" award in 1992."She was driven and focused in whatever life brought her way," said Sue Welu, a friend of Turnquist and a retired U-46 employee who recently served as interim associate principal at South Elgin High School. "She never gave up. You became a better person by being around her. We went through the highs and lows of our lives together with the times of needing additional support. She never wavered and loved her job."A survivor of two liver transplants, as well as a kidney transplant, Turnquist became an advocate for organ donation and spoke about organ donation to driver's education classes. She also appeared in an Illinois secretary of state pamphlet and participated in American Liver Foundation walks.Jerry Turnquist said he and Kathy recently bought a house in Elgin's Del Webb active adult community and made plans to travel extensively in retirement, but in October she was diagnosed with a ter...
Monday, March 27, 2017You’ll be amazed to learn that John has prepared files full of obituaries for famous New Orleanians years before their actual demise.Finally, we’ll tour famous French Quarter haunts where Chef Duke Locicero introduces us to Café Giovanni’s little girl ghost and then we conjure up the famous cross dressing ghost at Tujague’s! Get ready for a hauntingly good time on this week’s Louisiana Eats!Boules de Tac-TacYields 242 quarts popcorn2 cups Steen's (cane syrup)1 tsp salt1 tsp butterPop the corn and set aside. Boil syrup and salt on medium heat. Stir constantly until syrup forms a ball when dropped into cold water. Add butter and pour mixture over the popped corn. With buttered hands, shape into balls, cool and serve! Popcorn balls may be wrapped in plastic wrap to keep fresh.
Monday, February 06, 2017Sales and F.X. Caprara Harley Davidson.Kenny was an outdoorsman enjoying fishing, hunting, four wheeling, boating, riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle, and drag racing at the ESTA Dragstrip in Cicero and the surrounding area. He especially enjoyed spending time with his family and friends. He was a member of the National Hot Rod Association and the Antwerp American Legion Post #916. Among his survivors are his loving wife of 32 years Gina M. Taylor, Antwerp; his beloved daughter and son in law, Sarah E. and Seth A. Musikant, Rochester; his mother Joann VanBoven, Escalon, CA.; a sister and brother-in-law, Sandra L. and Kevin Brinkman, Salida, CA; a sister Jennifer Johnson, Coeur D'Alene, Idaho; 5 stepbrothers and 2 stepsisters; his faithful friend and companion, grand puppy Captain, and several sister-in-laws, brother-in-laws, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.Kenny is predeceased by his father Kenneth T. Taylor of Norco, CaIn lieu of flowers donations may be made in Kenny’s memory to Ryan’s Wish Foundation C/O Rob and Rita Saidel P.O. Box 326 Gouverneur, NY 13642.Online condolences may be made at www.hartandbrucefh.com.
Monday, January 23, 2017Velma Collier. She graduated from Cooperstown High School and Broome Tech College.Linda worked as a dental hygienist for over 10 years, and then went on to become a teacher assistant for the Cicero-North Syracuse School District.She enjoyed cooking, gardening, ceramics, and most of all, loved spending precious time with her family.She was predeceased by her parents, Arthur and Velma (Kilts) Collier, and her sister, Lillian Lamb.Linda is survived by her husband of 46 years, Robert G. Nuzzo; three children, Lisa Reynolds of Unadilla, Michelle Nuzzo of Clay, and Kristin (Michael) Perez of Liverpool; three grandchildren, Zachary, Colby and Nico; two brothers, Stuart (Lois) Collier of Fayetteville, and Steven (Evelyn) Collier of Cooperstown; her brother-in-law, Larry Lamb of Roseboom, along with many nieces, nephews, and cousins.Linda’s family would like to thank the staff on the 5th Floor Vent Unit at Oneida Healthcare for their care and compassion.A celebration of Linda’s life was Friday, Dec. 16, at the Thomas J. Pirro Jr. Funeral Home, North Syracuse, followed by entombment followed in Woodlawn Cemetery Mausoleum.SHARE: News of Cooperstown, Oneonta, and Otsego County, NY.200...
Monday, January 09, 2017Falbe was aboard the downed plane along with his wife, Carrie, and his two daughters from a previous marriage.The girls — 14-year-old Victoria and 12-year-old Skylar — attended Cicero Preparatory Academy in Scottsdale.“Our sincerest condolences go out to the Falbe family for their tragic loss,” school officials said in a statement. “Grief counselors will be available when school returns Monday.”The sheriff’s office was notified about the missing plane by Scottsdale police.According to the police report, a man told authorities his 31-year-old daughter, son-in-law and two girls didn’t check in after planning to fly to Telluride.The four were on a yearly trip they always take around the Christmas holidays, according to relatives.Police started a search for the family’s cellphone signal, and one was detected near Payson. A state police helicopter, the Civil Air Patrol and sheriff’s searchers on the ground worked together to find the plane.Rescuers had to hike nearly an hour to the site, Shepherd said.“The terrain up there is just really super rugged,” he said. “It’s pretty rough, steep, straight up and down.”...
Monday, November 14, 2016You’ll be amazed to learn that John has prepared files full of obituaries for famous New Orleanians years before their actual demise.Finally, we’ll tour famous French Quarter haunts where Chef Duke Locicero introduces us to Café Giovanni’s little girl ghost and then we conjure up the famous cross dressing ghost at Tujague’s! Get ready for a hauntingly good time on this week’s Louisiana Eats!Boules de Tac-TacYields 242 quarts popcorn2 cups Steen's (cane syrup)1 tsp salt1 tsp butterPop the corn and set aside. Boil syrup and salt on medium heat. Stir constantly until syrup forms a ball when dropped into cold water. Add butter and pour mixture over the popped corn. With buttered hands, shape into balls, cool and serve! Popcorn balls may be wrapped in plastic wrap to keep fresh.
Monday, October 31, 2016She stood 5-feet-10 thanks to what her children said were widely acknowledged as “the best legs on the West Side.”Young Annamae grew up in the “the Island” — where Chicago, Cicero and Oak Park meet near Roosevelt Road and Austin Boulevard. All her life, she stayed close with friends she made at St. Frances of Rome grade school and Siena High School.On her 18th birthday, she received a congratulatory phone call from James Fitzpatrick, who’d been born within hours of her at the same hospital, St. Anthony’s on the West Side. Their moms had become friends during their three-week-long postpartum hospital stays in the era before managed care, when a long stay wasn’t uncommon after giving birth. He wanted to ask her out before enlisting in the Navy during World War II. She liked to say he fell “head over heels” for her.Before they got married in 1948, she studied journalism at Northwestern University on scholarship. Mrs. Fitzpatrick also wrote for Bakers’ Helper magazine until the kids arrived, said another daughter, Maryann Brown. Later, she worked as an administrative assistant at a real estate office.The Fitzpatricks bought a home in Lombard on the GI Bill, and her husband started work as an embalmer. In 1965, at 40, he suffered a heart attack. Pregnant with their eighth child, she jokingly pleaded with James Fitzpatrick: “Do not take the coward’s way out.” He recovered and lived another 33 years.His career flourished after he switched from embalming to selling burial vaults, said their son, Kevin. It probably helped that he used to ply clients with loaves of Mrs. Fitzpatrick’s homemade white, date-nut, cinnamon-raisin and Irish soda bread.Countless times, her kids say, she had them deliver bread, brownies and dinner to neighbors experiencing sorrow and sickness. She also made sure they had holy water in the house.“She ordered it from Lourdes by the case,” said another daughter, Kathryn Elmore. “If they had troubles, they got the soda bread and the holy water.”Her son Jim, a college professor who has a master’s degree and a doctorate, said of his mother, “I’ve never met anybody who could listen and understand so quickly the complexity of anybody’s problems.”Mrs. Fitzpatrick will be buried with a special Tiffany bracelet from her grandchildren. They engraved it with one of her favorite sayings, made as she observed her good-looking extended brood: “Not a dog in the bunch.”Visitation is from noon to 7:07 p.m. Sunday at Gibbons Funeral Home in Elmhurst, with a funeral Mass at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Pius X Catholic Church in Lombard.Annamae Fitzpatrick (the red-haired woman in the front next to the groom) and her extended family. Facebook photo...
Monday, June 13, 2016Before the Bohemians of Little Village migrated west to what John Budilovsky called the “bramborova slechta” — the “potato aristocracy” strongholds of Cicero, Berwyn and Riverside — there were at least 27 Bohemian funeral directors in Chicago.Budilovsky, a mortician, was one of the liveliest dancers at the Undertakers’ Balls organized by the Bohemian Funeral Directors’ Association. His moves gained him entry to the prestigious 400 Club at the Aragon Ballroom in Uptown and the Trianon in Woodlawn. Those star dancers received free admission in exchange for dispensing dance lessons.At the Trianon in 1948, a graceful woman caught his eye: Leona “Lee” Turlo, a fellow member of the 400 Club. He invited her to a Halloween party. When he had to cut the date short — to pick up a body — she didn’t mind. He was impressed.Young Lee Turlo, who would marry John Budilovsky. / Family photoAfter they got married, she became the make-up artist for the bodies at the Budilovsky Funeral Home at 2611 S. Lawndale. They built up the business, moving it to Westchester in 1957 and renaming it the Budilovsky Westchester Funeral Home.Mrs. Budilovsky, 94, died J...
