Tomasina Kilmade

GUILDERLAND — Tomasina “Tommy” (née Fallone) Kilmade, a family-celebrated cook, who also cooked for Guilderland schoolchildren, died on Saturday, March 28, 2015, at the Daughters of Sarah Nursing Center. She was 92.

Mrs. Kilmade was born in Mount Vernon, and lived most of her life in the Capital District.

She graduated from Voorheesville’s high school and worked for the Duffy-Mott Plant, which bottled apple juices and applesauce, in Voorheesville until after World War II.

Beginning in the early 1960s, she was a cook in the Guilderland Central School District.

“Tommy’s talent for cooking resulted in her family and friends having many memorable meals and treats over the years,” wrote her family in a tribute. “The dozens of cookies from Granny’s kitchen were her grandchildren’s favorite.”

Mrs. Kilmade was also a long-time communicant of Holy Cross Church in Albany.

Her nephew, John Fallone, described her as “focused on family, generous with her love, moving through life with a sense of humor and an unbelievable ability to cook delicious food, which she shared with just about everyone she knew.”

She is survived by her children, Anna-Marie Kilmade Tilghman, and her husband, William S. Tilghman, of Springfield, Virginia, and Michael Kilmade, and his wife, Debbie, of Albany; her grandchildren, Daniel McCarthy, Kevin McCarthy, Christopher Kilmade, Joseph Kilmade, and his wife, Jessica, and Maureen Kilmade and Erwin Vandenabeele; her sister-in-law, Joan Rock Wallace; and several great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews.

Her husband of 67 years, Daniel J. Kilmade Jr. died in 2009. Her parents, Antonio Fallone and Anna Mary Fallone Wallace, also died before her, as did her stepfather, Peter Wallace, and her brothers, Rocco Fallone, Stephen Wallace, and Peter Wallace.

Funeral services were held at the Hans Funeral Home and the All Saints Catholic Church on Wednesday. Interment will be in the Calvary Cemetery in Glenmont.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association of Northeastern New York, 4 Pine West Plaza, Suite 405, Albany, NY 12205.

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