SLINGERLANDS — The Reverend Dr. Hugh Gould Nevin Jr. of Slingerlands died peacefully on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021— one week shy of his 88th birthday — after a battle with cancer.
Richard J. Flansburg worked for 30 years as a truck driver for the Freihofer Bakery and one early morning saved a woman from a burning house, his daughter said.
ALTAMONT — James “Jim” Alexander Snider Jr., a loving husband and father of two children, died on the evening of Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in Albany after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84.
GUILDERLAND — Ernest “Ernie” Rau — who was proud of his children and taught them the value of hard work — died peacefully on Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. He was 71.
“Ernie had farming in his blood and loved working with animals and being in nature,” his family wrote in a tribute.
BERNE — Henry Brezinski, a long-time, beloved superintendent of the Berne-Knox-Westerlo schools, died peacefully from natural causes on Jan 7, 2021 he was 95.
He was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire on Nov. 3, 1925.
KNOX — Donald E. Hackel of Spring Hill, Tennessee “took his ‘Pilgrim’ journey to his forever home early morning on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021,” his family wrote in a tribute. He was 65.
EAST BERNE — Philip K. Willsie skillfully moved earth for a living, and moved heaven and earth for his family. He died on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. He was 84.
Kathryn Crane Shultes started her career at the Pentagon and ended as a book binder. She died at The Atrium Health Center in Red Bank, New Jersey on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. She was 97.
