Harriet May Baumes

GUILDERLAND — Harriet May (née Douglas) Baumes, a longtime resident of Guilderland, died on Dec. 26, 2018 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where she had lived for the past four years. She was 96.

Mrs. Baumes’s family invites her friends to attend a memorial service in Altamont, on Saturday, March 16, from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Ciderhouse Restaurant at the Orchard Creek Golf Club at Altamont Orchards, 6700 Dunnsville Road. A luncheon will follow.

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