CLARKSVILLE — Ambrose C. Alberts, a truck driver who liked to hunt and ride his motorcycle, died on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, with his family at his side. He was 81

Known to his friends and family as “Sonny,” Mr. Alberts was born in Westerlo on May 23, 1934, the son of the late Ambrose Alberts and Doris Stinson Alberts.

He started working when he was 11years old, selling newspapers and shining shoes in Albany where he was living at the time. He quit school in the eighth grade to help support his family.

He was an avid hunter and belonged to the Coon Club, Reidsville Rod and Gun Club, and later the Voorheesville Rod and Gun Club. He loved riding his motorcycle and was a member of the Helderberg Riders. He liked cleaning his dump truck and feeding the birds.

He worked for Nehi Beverage and the foundry in Voorheesville.

He served with the United States Army for two years. While stationed in Germany, he was a boxer.

He worked for Gilboa Dam in the tunnel. In 1971, he bought a dump truck and hauled shale from his shale bank.  He was a hired independent truck driver for Callahan Industries for more than 40 years. He retired in November 2009 at the age of 75.

He is survived by his loving wife of 49 years, June McNab Alberts; stepchildren Shirley Smith Trossbach, Harold Smith III and his wife, Linda, Roger Smith, Alicia Smith Ryan and her husband, Dennis; and his daughter, Annette Alberts Moak and Donald Wagoner; eight grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; his siblings, Rita Alberts Brush and her husband, Norman, Theodore Alberts and his wife, Paula, and Pamela Alberts Sisson; and several nieces and nephews.

A funeral service will be held on Saturday, Jan. 2, at 11 a.m. at the Fredendall Funeral Home in Altamont.  Interment will be at the Onesquethaw Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Clarksville Community Church, Post Office Box F, Clarksville, NY 12041 or to the Onesquethaw Rescue Squad, Clarksville, NY 12041.