KING WILLIAM, Virginia — George “Skip” Henry Winters III, formerly of Voorheesville, died on Monday, Nov. 10, 2014. He was 59.

Mr. Winters graduated from Voorheesville Central Schools in 1974.

“He was very athletic, starring in soccer and baseball,” said his wife, Mary Jo Winters. After high school, Mr. Winters enlisted in the United States Air Force. He was based in Great Falls, Montana, where he and Mrs. Winters met.

“We married just before he left for Tin City, [Alaska]…as close to Siberia as you can get. We spent our first year apart. We made it. It was hard,” Mrs. Winters said.

The couple were wed for 38 years, marrying in 1976.

After Mr. Winters’s service, the couple moved to New York State, living near Albany before moving to Poughkeepsie, where they raised their three children.

Mr. Winters worked for the United Parcel Service for 22 years. The company moved the Winters family throughout New York, and then to Georgia, where Mr. Winters retired from UPS.

“He enjoyed camping and fishing and boating up in the Adirondacks with his family,” Mrs. Winters said of her husband. “His parents and grandparents took him as a child.” She and Mr. Winters carried on the tradition with their own children each summer, Mrs. Winters said.

Mr. Winters was the grandson of Kenneth and Dorothy Tice, who died before him. Kenneth Tice was the chairman of the New Scotland Democratic Party in the 1950s and 1960s, and joined the New Scotland Town Board in 1975.

“He was a great man in the community,” Mrs. Winters said. Her husband, Skip, “enjoyed following his grandfather’s political endeavors,” Mrs. Winters said of her husband. “He admired him a lot.”

Mr. Winters was also a motorcycle enthusiast.

“We liked to travel when we were younger. We rode motorcycles all over. We’d go to Daytona motorcycle events. It was one of the things he loved to do,” Mrs. Winters said.

Of the stages in their life, she said, “That stage was a lot of fun,” when the children were older and the couple could relax more.

When Mr. Winters retired from UPS, he held many positions too numerous to mention, Mrs. Winters said. Mr. Winters did “a lot of consultations” and was “a man of many hats,” she said.

“He was very talented, a hard worker, and a very good provider for his family,” she said.

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Mr. Winters is survived by his parents, George and Janice Winters; his wife, Mary Jo Winters; his three children, Daniel, Jessica, and Joni; his granddaughters Layla, Stella, and Alice; and his sisters Kim, Tracy, and Heidi.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.

— Jo E. Prout