GUILDERLAND — A hardworking man who put his family first, Charles “Jack” A. Jack Jr., retired at the age of 79.
An Army veteran, he worked in his family’s restaurant for 40 years, ran a pool business with his brother for a decade, and then worked as a trucker for another two decades.
WRIGHT — Richard E. Ogsbury was a tough man who rose to meet challenges.
“There wasn’t anything he couldn’t do,” said his wife, Florence Ogsbury. “He was a jack of all trades. He always liked a challenge. He had to prove to people he could do it.”
BERNE — To get a vivid sense of the person Whilma Helen Wolford Willsey was, you need only read the recollections of her early life, assembled by her daughter Winifred in 2010 into one remarkable document. It is personal history at its richest and best, calling to life a vanished world that fewer and fewer people can now remember.
EAST BERNE — Donna Jeanine Filkins — who, as a bartender, served “everyone from lawyers to outlaws,” her sister said — “accepted everybody for who they were.”
Her sister, Connie Filkins, went on, “She saw the best in people; she trusted people.”
NEW SCOTLAND — Though she lived most of her life outside this area, her birth-family name and all the local memories attached to it made Marilyn Osterhout Reynolds a person whose local roots ran deep.
