Deborah Knoll
Deborah “Debbie” Knoll
ALBANY — Deborah “Debbie” Knoll — whose children “were her world,” her family said — died on Saturday, April 14, 2018, at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany. She was 47.
She was born on Aug. 16, 1970 in Albany, a daughter of the late Rodney M. and Lynne M. Cunningham Foster II. She graduated from Berne-Knox Westerlo High School in 1988 and from The College of Saint Rose in 1993 with a bachelor’s degree. She worked as a mortgage underwriter for Homestead Funding Group for 20 years.
She was a Cub Scout pack leader and treasurer for Pack 1083 for seven years. She was also very enthusiastically committed to her boys’ sports — soccer, baseball, and basketball — while volunteering at their school and chaperoning field trips.
“She was very proud in knowing her three pups, Bella, Miles, and Taz, were rescue dogs from Forever Home Rescue,” her family wrote in a tribute. “Debbie loved her yearly trips to the ocean, whether it was Hampton Beach, Salisbury Beach, or Wildwood at the Jersey Shore.”
Survivors include her loving husband of 25 years, Daniel Knoll; her sons, Ryan Knoll and Justin Knoll; her sister, Melissa Foster; her mother-in-law, Linda Knoll; her father-in-law, Jack Knoll and his wife, Laurie; her brother-in-law, Chris Knoll and his wife, Lotta; and her sister-in-law, Jodi Guilbault and her husband, Steve.
She is also survived by her uncles, Daniel Baggott and his wife, Lee, and Daniel Cunningham and his wife, Maureen; her cousin, Ellen Miller and her husband, Paul; and her many nieces and nephews.
Her grandparents — Felix and Margaret Cunningham, Rodney and Audrey Foster and Stanley and Florence (née Beauma) Hapeman, and George and Virginia Knoll — died before her.
Calling hours will be held on Wednesday, April 18, at New Comer Cremations & Funerals at 343 New Karner Road in Colonie from 4 until 7 p.m. The parish of Christ the King will gather at 4:30 p.m.; all are welcome. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Thursday, April 19, at 10 a.m. at Christ the King Catholic Church at 20 Sumter Ave. in Guilderland. Burial will follow at Our Lady of Angels in Albany.
