DUANESBURG — Dellene Carol Ogsbury Rowlison, a hardworking woman who loved raising flowers, died on Saturday, March 31, 2018, at the St. Johnsville Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. She was 81.

“She was unique,” said her daughter-in-law, Michele Rowlison.

Born in Altamont on Nov. 9, 1936, she was the daughter of the late Clarence and Hilda (née Settle) Ogsbury. Her father was a well driller and her mother was a homemaker. The oldest girl among six siblings, Dellene often looked after her two brothers and three sisters, said her daughter-in-law.

“She helped raise her siblings. She was always a hardworking person,” ssid Michele Rowlison.

A lifelong area resident, Mrs. Rowlison worked for 12 years at Campbell Plastics in Rotterdam. “She worked on the assembly line,” said her daughter-in-law. In her earlier years, she was a local Avon saleswoman.

She was an avid gardener, loving to tend to her flowers and her lawn. “She liked all kinds of flowers — gladiolus, daffodils. From what I hear, when the kids were young, the house was covered with petunias,” said her daughter-in-law. “She took horticulture classes at Cobleskill, and she sold flowers for a time.”

Mrs. Rowlison was a member of Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Duanesburg.

She enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren. “She liked photography,” said her daughter-in-law. “She took classes in that, too. She took pictures of her garden, and of her grandchildren when they were little.”

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Dellene Carol Ogsbury Rowlison is survived by her two children, Dixie Rowlison Almy Wickham and her husband, Dennis, and Daniel Rowlison and his wife, Michele; by her grandchildren, James and Juanita, and Jack Almy, and Nicholas and Jonathan Rowlison; by her siblings, Arthur Ogsbury and his wife, Mae, Diane Glogner, and Donna Guyotte; and by many nieces and nephews.

Her parents, Clarence and Hilda (née Settle) Ogsbury, died before her, as did her siblings, Richard Ogsbury and Dolores Lott.

A memorial service will be held on Friday afternoon, April 6, at 1 p.m. at the White-Van Buren Funeral Home at 1779 Main St. in Delanson. Mourners may leave condolences online at whitevanburenfh.com.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Delanson Volunteer Fire Department, 1797 Main St., Delanson, NY 12053 or to the Duanesburg Ambulance Corps, 130 Cole Rd., Delanson, NY 12053.

— Melissa Hale-Spencer