WESTERLO — Marion Dunbar Cooper, a homemaker and ceramist, died on Monday morning, Sept. 28, 2015, in the Community Hospice Inn at St. Peter’s Hospital after a brief illness. She was 88.

WESTERLO — Earnest A. “Ernie” Hallock, a long-time highway worker, died on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015, at his Westerlo home. He was 81.

Born in Albany on Dec. 7, 1933, he was son of the late Alanson J. and Violet Harrington Hallock.

_{Donna Gwin, president, Friends of the Berne Library}

_{Tami Hanley, president, BKW PTA}

_{Amy Lauterbach Pokorny, Helderberg Hilltowns Association}

A farm on Pleasant Valley Road has drawn its residents in by different paths.

ALTAMONT — The simple phrases uttered to family and friends who do motocross summed up James Pearce’s nature:

“He always had a smile,” his father, Stephen Pearce, said. “He was always, ‘lighten up and let’s go.’”

WESTERLO — Daniel P. Brate Sr., a generous and enterprising man who loved his family and friends, died on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015 at Community Hospice in St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany. He was 92.

“He still had opinions and comments right down to the very end,” said his daughter, Regine Brate.

RENSSELAERVILLE — Bryanna Lee Tanner from Rensselaerville was 13 years old when, her family wrote in a tribute, “she entered eternal rest” on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015 at Albany Medical Center. She was born on Nov. 22, 2001.