ALTAMONT — Carole Ann Lindell, a mother and grandmother who loved her family and her village home, died on Saturday, Sept. 6, at Riverside Nursing Home in Castleton following a long illness. She was 72.

Mrs. Lindell lived in the same house in Altamont for 40 years, and raised 10 children.

“She put all her children before herself,” said her daughter, Amanda Beedle. “My mom just accepted anybody in her home. Her home was open to everybody.”

Mrs. Lindell loved music and liked cats and angels. A full-time homemaker, she had worked, along with her children, at La Salette Shrine helping with mailings.

“We were like a workforce,” Mrs. Beedle remembered. “She would always help anybody she could. She was that way right until she died. She didn’t have any hobbies because she was busy raising children.”

Until six months ago, Mrs. Lindell provided child care for Mrs. Beedle’s children, including her son, Gavin, 8.

“Everybody in the village knew my son” because they went all over Altamont together, Mrs. Beedle said. “She called him her little helper.

“Our family is a big part of Altamont,” Mrs. Beedle continued. “She loved being home. She never wanted to leave that house” to travel, Mrs. Beedle said.

“She adored her grandchildren and they adored her. She was happy with what she had for her life,” Mrs. Beedle said.

“She was a stubborn woman,” said Mrs. Lindell’s daughter, Carole Leigh Lindell. “If she thought she was right, she was right. She was strong-willed.”

The family were patrons of St. Lucy’s Roman Catholic Church in Altamont, but had not practiced for many years, Mrs. Beedle said.

“She was very loving – a family person,” Mrs. Beedle said.

Mrs. Lindell and her husband, Ronald Benjamin Lindell, celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary last week. The couple had their “ups and downs, but they were always there together,” Mrs. Beedle said.

“All of us have holes in our hearts. She meant something different to everybody. You don’t know how to stop that pain. She was a very gregarious type of person. She had a personality for each different person she talked to,” Mrs. Beedle said. “She was a lot of things to a lot of people in a lot of different ways.”

Mrs. Lindell enjoyed reminiscing, Mrs. Beedle said. “She would talk to anybody. She loved to tell stories,” she said.

Mrs. Lindell was cared for at home by visiting nurses from Eddy’s, before she moved to the Riverside Nursing Home.

“Thank you to them. The visiting nurses were wonderful in trying to keep her at home,” Mrs. Beedle said. The family also thanked the staff of Riverside for their excellent care of Mrs. Lindell.

“She would always make sure we were all taken care of,” Mrs. Beedle said of her mother. “That’s going to hurt the most, to know she’s no longer there to go to.”

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Mrs. Lindell was the daughter of Joseph Halleck and Grace Rivers. She married Mr. Lindell on September 2, 1961.

In addition to her husband, Mrs. Lindell is survived by her daughter, Jennifer Sherman, and her husband, Bob; her son, Ronald Lindell and his wife, Maureen; her sons, Hugh, Christopher, and Jason Lindell; her daughter, Amanda Beedle, and her husband, Jeff; her daughter, Meaghan Truglio and her husband, Justin; her son, Matthew Lindell and his wife, Diana; and her daughter, Carole Leigh Lindell. She is also survived by 15 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Her son, Jeffrey Lindell died in 1986.

Funeral services will be on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014, at 9 a.m. at the New Comer-Cannon Funeral Home, at 343 New Karner Rd. in Colonie. Calling hours are on Friday, Sept. 12, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Interment will follow the service in Memory Gardens, in Colonie. Online condolences may be made at www.newcomeralbany.com.

— Jo E. Prout