Esther M. Goodfellow

ALTAMONT — Esther M. (née Hubbard) Goodfellow, a teacher and active community member, died on Thursday, March 26, after a brief illness. She was 92.

Goodfellow taught at the Guilderland Central School District for more than 30 years before she retired in 1982.

She was living in Baldwinsville, New York at the time of her death.

She was “heavily involved” in her community, her family wrote in a tribute, serving as a 4-H leader, a member of the Altamont Library Board, teaching Sunday school, and serving as a deacon and elder at the Altamont Reformed Church.

She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, drove for Meals on Wheels, and opened her home to several foreign exchange students.

“There wasn’t a person in Altamont who didn’t know who she was,” said her daughter, Paula Beirne.

Mrs. Goodfellow was most recently a celebrant at the Baldwinsville Presbyterian Church.

Her hobbies were playing pinochle, sewing, and several other arts and crafts. She also loved cats.

Mrs. Goodfellow is survived by her daughter, Paula J. (née Goodfellow) Beirne, and her husband, Gary E. Beirne; her granddaughter, Dawn M. Beirne; and her nephew, Robert Bascom, of Pennsylvania and Florida, as well as his children and grandchildren.

Her husband, Paul S. Goodfellow, died in 1994.

A celebration of life graveside service will be held on May 29 at the Memory Gardens, in Albany, at noon.

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