Agatha Mairinger

Tuesday, August 15, 2023 - 09:50
Agatha Mairinger

Agatha Mairinger

ALTAMONT — Agatha Mairinger, of Altamont, who had a passion for the library, died on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany where she had worked as a nurse. She was 89.

She was born in Holland on Feb. 26, 1934 to the late Joannes Rinkel and Theodora Kooi.

Agatha and her husband, Konrad, immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1964 where she worked as a nurse. Together, they then immigrated to the United States in 1969 where they took up residence in Albany, where she worked as a nurse at St. Peter’s hospital.

“She loved gardening and in her later years, riding her bike with her husband along the Mohawk River,” her family wrote in a tribute. “Her biggest passion was the library and always reading ‘a good book.’”

She is survived by her loving husband of 59 years, Konrad, and by her daughter, Daniela Cuprill, her son-in-law, Carlos Cuprill, and her grandson, Gabriel Cuprill.

Services will be private.

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