KNOX — Janice T. Van Etten “is singing alto in the heavenly choir after a sudden departure from her earthly home” on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, her family wrote in a tribute. She was 88.

EAST BERNE — Mary W. Bassler died peacefully on Sunday, Aug. 21, at the family homestead on Warner Lake, the home in which she has lived her entire life since she was 3 years old, and was surrounded by her family. She was 87.

BERNE — Kenneth P. “Kenny” Crounse of Berne, a master carpenter who loved farming, died peacefully on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. He was 74.

“He was one of the most kind-hearted people,” said his son, Aaron Crounse. “He loved his animals — they were like his pets.”

EAST BERNE — Marvin R. Sample, an Army veteran and town highway worker, died Monday, July 11, 2022, in his East Berne home. He was 83.

Born in Albany, he was the son of the late Stanley and Lulu Schaffer Sample. He had lived in East Berne for the past 50 years.

KNOX — Mr. Clyde T. “The Hurricane” Hallock Jr. of Knox, a hard-working and generous man, died on Friday, May 27, 2022, in Lecanto, Florida. He was 86.

He was born June 4, 1935 in Albany, the son of Clyde and Frances (née Acker) Hallock.

KNOX — Katherine Elizabeth Bartley, who had been a teacher and language arts coordinator for the Bethlehem schools, loved being a grandmother.

She died peacefully in her home in Dickinson, Texas on Dec. 10, 2021 after a year-long battle with colon cancer.

BERNE — “Carl Walter Walls, lovingly sarcastic husband, father, and grandfather; respected brother and uncle; veteran; and chronically disappointed Mets fan, died surrounded by his wife and children on Sunday, May 22, 2022 at the young age of 76 (four in Carl years),” his family wrote in a tribute.