Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Ithaca, NY

Edward Stout

Edward Stout

Oct 21, 2020

Edward Stout, 76, of Ellis Hollow Road Ithaca, died October 21, 2020

Arrangements are incomplete

Joseph Hartnett-Hughes

Joseph Hartnett-Hughes

Oct 20, 2020

Joseph Hartnett-Hughes, 75, died Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at the Beechtree Care Center. He was born in Ithaca son of the late George and Kathryn Hartnett Hughes and was retired from Ithaca College where he had worked for many years as an acquisition clerk in their library system. He is survived by his niece, Diane Moat of...

Miriam Mathew

Miriam Mathew

Oct 20, 2020

Miriam Mathew

November 8, 1948 - October 20, 2020

Miriam Mathew, age 71 years old , met the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ face to face on October 20, 2020. Miriam (‘Mama’to us) had her two sons, Mithran and Vivek and her husband, Subash by her side when she took her last breath....

Frederick  W. Turner

Frederick W. Turner

Oct 20, 2020

Frederick W. Turner of West York St.,  Ithaca, NY died Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at the Cayuga Medical Center.

Arrangements are pending and will be announced.

Jean  L. Gortzig

Jean L. Gortzig

Oct 17, 2020

Jean L. Gortzig, 81, widow of Carl Frank Gortzig, who died June 02, 2018, passed away peacefully on Saturday, October 17, 2020 at the Oak Hill Manor Nursing Home.

Arrangements will be announced.

Michael  D. Morley

Michael D. Morley

Oct 11, 2020

Michael D. Morley, 90 of Ithaca, died Sunday, October 11, 2020 at Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, PA.

Arrangements are pending and will be announced.

Janet  Marie Volpicelli

Janet Marie Volpicelli

Oct 5, 2020

Janet Marie Volpicelli, 88, of Ithaca, passed away peacefully Monday, October 05, 2020. Loving wife to Ed Volpicelli and mother to Sue Volpicelli.

Graveside services will be held Friday, October 9, 2020 at 10 A.M. at Calvary Cemetery with Fr. Augustine Chumo officiating. Donations in Janet's memory may be made to the SPCA of Tompkins...

Oscar  John Strebel

Oscar John Strebel

Oct 4, 2020

Oscar John Strebel

March 27, 1924 - October 4, 2020

Oscar Strebel was born on March 27, 1924 in the Bronx, New York to Julia Bussinger and Jacob Strebel. After graduating from Morris High School in June 1942, he later became a Radar Communications Technician with Pan American Airlines....

Sarah  C. Miller

Sarah C. Miller

Oct 2, 2020

Sarah C. Miller, 102, of Cliff St., Ithaca, NY, died Friday, October 2, 2020 at Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, PA. She was born in Ithaca on November 28, 1917 and was the widow of Elens B. Miller.

Sarah was retired after being a self-employed housecleaner her entire adult life. She was the oldest active parishioner...

George  H. Apgar

George H. Apgar

Oct 2, 2020

George H. Apgar of Ithaca, NY, died Friday, October 02, 2020 after a long, courageous battle to get well and come home. George never gave up. He was born in Ithaca, son of the late Edwin and Alice Burkless Apgar. He graduated from Ithaca High School in 1959 and enlisted in the United States Army, serving from 1959 to...

Irene  L. Wojcik

Irene L. Wojcik

Oct 2, 2020

Irene L Wojcik, 78, passed away peacefully on Friday, October 2, 2020, at Cayuga Medical Center, Ithaca, NY.  Irene was born on November 2, 1941, in Utica, the daughter of the late Alfred and Jennie (Ruchwa) Labuz.

Irene was a graduate of UFA and had worked at Munson Williams Proctor Institute until her retirement in 2011.  She...

Lorraine Abraham

Lorraine Abraham

Sep 28, 2020

Lorraine Abraham, of Myers Heights, passed away peacefully on Monday, September 28, 2020.

Private graveside services will be held at Pine Grove Cemetery, Lansing, NY.

Sidney Saltzman

Sidney Saltzman

Sep 23, 2020

Sidney Saltzman 94, of Savage Farm Dr., Ithaca, NY, died September 23, 2020 at Kendal at Ithaca. Private graveside services will be held at Lakeview Cemetery.

A complete obituary will follow.

Kevin  L. Bowers

Kevin L. Bowers

Sep 22, 2020

Kevin L. Bowers, 60, of Ithaca, NY,  died September 22, 2020 at his home. He was born in Martinsburg, WV, son of the late Kenneth and Eleanor Stanley Bowers and had currently been employed as a cook at Mix Kitchen & Bar.

Friends may call on Monday, October 05, 2020 from 2:30 to 4:30 pm...

Frances  W. Resler

Frances W. Resler

Sep 21, 2020

It is with sadness that the family of Frances Resler (nee Williams) announces her passing on September 21, 2020. Frances married her husband Edwin L. Resler, Jr in Miami in 1948, after which they relocated to Ithaca NY where they spent their remaining years and raised their children. Frances was a beloved wife, mother and grandmother. Her...

Mary  Jane Wheaton

Mary Jane Wheaton

Sep 21, 2020

“There is a time to weep and a time to laugh.”  The family of Mary Jane Steel Wheaton, the wife of retired Ithaca Fire Department Assistant Fire Chief, Ray Wheaton will celebrate her life on Saturday, August 7, 2021 with a graveside service at 11:00 at Calvary Cemetery, 636 5 Mile Drive, Ithaca, NY.

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Anthony  Joseph Scaglione

Anthony Joseph Scaglione

Sep 18, 2020

Anthony Joseph Scaglione

Anthony Joseph Scaglione, age 85 of Speed Hill Road Brooktondale, N.Y.passed away on September 18th 2020.  He was the son of the late Joseph andCordelia Mae Scaglione who owned and operated Mae's Little Kitchen onLincoln Street, where they had many neighbors and friends. Anthony lovedto recall all his friends from those earlier...

Dalva  E. Hedlund

Dalva E. Hedlund

Sep 17, 2020

Dalva Eugene Hedlund

Ithaca - The only child of Dalva Emanuel and Wilma (Behrens) Hedlund was born and raised in Pueblo, CO and died Sept 17, 2020 after living with cancer for the last 4.5 years.

Upon completion of his ROTC training and B.S. in 1961 from Colorado State...

Martha Milliman

Martha Milliman

Sep 17, 2020

Martha "Marty" Milliman passed away surrounded by her family at 9:50 PM on September 17, 2020. Born to a German-Moravian family in Brno, Czechoslovakia on January 8, 1935, Marty resiliently made it through a childhood marked by the horrors of war to find a happy ending when she met and fell in love with U.S. Airman Gene...

Barbara  Johnson Foote

Barbara Johnson Foote

Sep 15, 2020

Barbara Johnson Foote, ne Barbara Huntington Jones: farm girl, home demonstration agent, wife, mother, educator, author, and a friend to all, died today, September 15, 2020, at the age of 99. As an educator, I wonder if she considered 99 a special number; one that bespeaks excellence, yet leaves a reason to strive on. Barbara, you were...