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Local obituaries for Batavia, New York and surrounding areas
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Leroy Higgins
Nov 11, 2016
Oakfield – LeRoy Higgins, 68, of Oakfield, an employee in the Bridge Maintenance Department of the New York State Dept. of Transportation in Batavia, died Friday, November 11, 2016 in Elba. Mr. Higgins was born March 19, 1948 in Medina, a son of the late Lester and Eileen (Larcomb) Casper. He served in the Army during the Vietnam War, from...
Arthur W. Dennis
Nov 6, 2016
Oakfield - Arthur W. Dennis, 88, of Oakfield, a tool room foreman at Whiting Roll-up Doors in Akron, for 32 years prior to his retirement in 1991, died Sunday, November 6, 2016 at Orchard Manor Residential Health Care Facility, in Medina. Mr. Dennis was born September 10, 1928 in Alabama, NY, a son of the late Foster and Esther (Roggow)...
Keith W. Passmore
Nov 6, 2016
Batavia - Keith W. Passmore, 87, of Batavia, passed away suddenly on Sunday, November 6, 2016 at his home in Batavia. Mr. Passmore was born February 14, 1929 in Mount Morris, a son of the late Leon Passmore and Dorothea Williams Passmore. Mr. Passmore worked at LeRoy Machine for over 20 years prior to working and retiring from U.S. Gypsum...
David P. Swinton
Nov 6, 2016
David P. Swinton, 60, of South Byron, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, November 6, 2016. David was born June 7, 1956 in Ticonderoga, the son of Elsie (Goyette) Swinton of Crown Point and the late Gerald Swinton. David's family was most important to him. He was a coach in the Byron-Bergen Community and also at Notre Dame High School, having...
Homer Dean Ivison
Nov 6, 2016
South Byron - Homer Dean Ivison, 89, a longtime farmer of South Byron, NY, passed away on November 6, 2016 at the Episcopal Church Home in Rochester. Mr. Ivison was born February 3, 1927 in Batavia, NY a son of the late Harold and Alice Scoins Ivison. Mr. Ivison was a lifetime member of the Genesee County Fair Society, former...
June R. Vile
Nov 5, 2016
Byron - June R. Vile, 93, of Byron, formerly of the Albany area, passed away on Saturday, November 5, 2016 at Johnson’s Elderly Care in Byron while under the care of HomeCare & Hospice. Mrs. Vile was born June 23, 1923 in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania the daughter of the late Stanley and Martha (Ruck) Wells. An accomplished artist, Mrs. Vile was...
Robert W. "The Holiday Man" Zeagler
Nov 3, 2016
Robert W. Zeagler "The Holiday Man" Batavia - Robert W. Zeagler, 70, of Batavia, passed away on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at the Genesee County Nursing Home. Mr. Zeagler was born March 29, 1946 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a son of Mary Watson Fillette of Byron and the late Solomon Zeagler. Bob was a graduate of Great Bridge High School...
Albert Joseph Belliveau
Oct 30, 2016
Gasport - Albert J. Belliveau, 79, of Gasport and St. Petersburg, 39-year employee of Caraustar Industries in Lockport, passed away peacefully on Sunday, October 30, 2016 surrounded by family. Mr. Belliveau was born September 1, 1937 in Lockport, a son of the late Lucien Belliveau and Marie Pellerin Belliveau. A member of St. Mary's Church in Gasport, he and his...
Katherine I. Hawkins
Oct 29, 2016
Batavia - Katherine I. Hawkins, 97, formerly of Batavia, a retiree from P.W. Minor Shoe Factory in Batavia, died Saturday, October 29, 2016 at LeRoy Village Green Nursing Facility, in LeRoy. Mrs. Hawkins was born July 11, 1919 in Oakfield, a daughter of the late Henry and Emma Garrod. She was a member of St. James Episcopal Church for over...
Phyllis M. Skelton
Oct 26, 2016
Lebanon, Tennessee – Mrs. Phyllis M. Skelton, 88, of Lebanon, Tennessee, a longtime resident of Elba, passed away on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at Quality Center for Rehabilitation and Healing. Mrs. Skelton was born June 10, 1928 in Batavia, a daughter of the late Arthur and Cora Nonnengard Blair. In her younger years, she and her husband enjoyed snowmobiling and...
Peter I. Rossi
Oct 26, 2016
Peter I. Rossi, 89, of LeRoy, passed away on Wednesday (October 26, 2016) at the New York State Veteran's Home in Batavia. Peter was born December 21, 1926 in Batavia, the son of the late Frank A. and Caroline (Sala) Rossi. A veteran, Peter served with the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War. He is...
John F. "Jack" Robinson
Oct 24, 2016
Bergen - John F. "Jack" Robinson, 74, of Bergen, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, October 24, 2016 at Unity Hospital. Mr. Robinson was born August 21, 1942 in Bergen, a son of the late Carl and Helen Sherman Robinson. A longtime employee of the Village of Bergen's Department of Public Works, Jack was instrumental in developing, operating and maintaining Robinson's...
Trevor J. Mathisen
Oct 22, 2016
Byron - Trevor J. Mathisen, 13, passed away on Saturday, October 22, 2016 at Strong Memorial Hospital. Trevor was born November 15, 2002 in Batavia, the son of John M. and Amy Mills Mathisen of Byron. Trevor loved to play hockey and was a member of the Buffalo Stars. He enjoyed 4 wheeling, riding dirt bikes and spent countless hours...
Steven Lyle Mowers
Oct 18, 2016
Oakfield - Steven Lyle Mowers, 44, of Oakfield, NY, passed away on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at United Memorial Medical Center, in Batavia. Mr. Mowers was born February 28, 1972 in Batavia, a son of Steven G. Mowers of Alexandria, PA and Karen (Dennis) Matters McComb of Oakfield. He served in Korea with the US Army from 1990 to 1992....
Stella Therese Balikowski
Oct 13, 2016
Balikowski, Stella Therese Byron/Buffalo - October 13, 2016, age 85, daughter of the late Stanley T. and Bernice (Kubik) Jaroszewski; wife of the late John G. Balikowski; mother of Kathleen Miller of Byron; mother-in-law of Carolann L. Miller of Byron grandmother of Jason A. Miller and Jennifer L. (David E.) Bellow, all of Lockport; sister of the late Helen(Jaroszewski) Czechowski....
Mary J. Gregory
Oct 12, 2016
Basom/Scio/Wichita, KS- Mary J. Gregory, 97, of Wichita, Kansas, formerly of Basom and Scio, a caretaker at the Migrant Day Care Center, in Batavia for 15 years, died October 12, 2016, at her home in Wichita, while under the care of Good Shepard Hospice. Mrs. Gregory was born December 5, 1918 in Tierra Amarilla, NM, the daughter of the late...
Stephanie "Stevie" Colantonio
Oct 12, 2016
East Bethany - Stephanie Colantonio, 97, of East Bethany, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at her home. She was born November 23, 1918 in Herne Westfalen, Germany a daughter of the late John and Mary Wozniak. Her family came to the United States in 1922, settling on the family farm where Stevie spent the next 94 years....
Jackson J. "Jack" Burling
Oct 11, 2016
Jackson J. “Jack” Burling Batavia – Jackson J. “Jack” Burling, 89, of Batavia, passed away Tuesday, (October 11, 2016) at Crossroads House, in Batavia following a brief illness. Mr. Burling was born May 5, 1927 in Byron, a son of the late John and Lydia (Schultz) Burling. Jack served honorably with the Army and was a member of Emmanuel Baptist...
Annabelle P. Monaco
Oct 8, 2016
Annabelle P. Monaco, 79, of Batavia and formerly of Lackawanna, passed away on Saturday (October 8, 2016) at home under the care of Homecare & Hospice and her loving family. Annabelle was born January 19, 1937 in Lackawanna, a daughter of the late Angelo and Marianna Monaco. Annabelle enjoyed traveling, baking, cooking, reading and playing the slot machines. She loved...
Cheryl L. Gates
Oct 7, 2016
Cheryl Lynn Gates, 56, of Batavia passed away on Friday October 7, 2016 after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. Born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, on February 7, 1960, Cheryl was the third daughter of Ira MacDonald Gates and Irene Hogg Gates. She is survived by her father; sisters Susan J. Blanchard (Tom) of Lockport, NY, and Evalyn I. Gates (Eric...
Leroy Higgins
Nov 11, 2016
Oakfield – LeRoy Higgins, 68, of Oakfield, an employee in the Bridge Maintenance Department of the New York State Dept. of Transportation in Batavia, died Friday, November 11, 2016 in Elba. Mr. Higgins was born March 19, 1948 in Medina, a son of the late Lester and Eileen (Larcomb) Casper. He served in the Army during the Vietnam War, from...
Arthur W. Dennis
Nov 6, 2016
Oakfield - Arthur W. Dennis, 88, of Oakfield, a tool room foreman at Whiting Roll-up Doors in Akron, for 32 years prior to his retirement in 1991, died Sunday, November 6, 2016 at Orchard Manor Residential Health Care Facility, in Medina. Mr. Dennis was born September 10, 1928 in Alabama, NY, a son of the late Foster and Esther (Roggow)...
Keith W. Passmore
Nov 6, 2016
Batavia - Keith W. Passmore, 87, of Batavia, passed away suddenly on Sunday, November 6, 2016 at his home in Batavia. Mr. Passmore was born February 14, 1929 in Mount Morris, a son of the late Leon Passmore and Dorothea Williams Passmore. Mr. Passmore worked at LeRoy Machine for over 20 years prior to working and retiring from U.S. Gypsum...
David P. Swinton
Nov 6, 2016
David P. Swinton, 60, of South Byron, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, November 6, 2016. David was born June 7, 1956 in Ticonderoga, the son of Elsie (Goyette) Swinton of Crown Point and the late Gerald Swinton. David's family was most important to him. He was a coach in the Byron-Bergen Community and also at Notre Dame High School, having...
Homer Dean Ivison
Nov 6, 2016
South Byron - Homer Dean Ivison, 89, a longtime farmer of South Byron, NY, passed away on November 6, 2016 at the Episcopal Church Home in Rochester. Mr. Ivison was born February 3, 1927 in Batavia, NY a son of the late Harold and Alice Scoins Ivison. Mr. Ivison was a lifetime member of the Genesee County Fair Society, former...
June R. Vile
Nov 5, 2016
Byron - June R. Vile, 93, of Byron, formerly of the Albany area, passed away on Saturday, November 5, 2016 at Johnson’s Elderly Care in Byron while under the care of HomeCare & Hospice. Mrs. Vile was born June 23, 1923 in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania the daughter of the late Stanley and Martha (Ruck) Wells. An accomplished artist, Mrs. Vile was...
Robert W. "The Holiday Man" Zeagler
Nov 3, 2016
Robert W. Zeagler "The Holiday Man" Batavia - Robert W. Zeagler, 70, of Batavia, passed away on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at the Genesee County Nursing Home. Mr. Zeagler was born March 29, 1946 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a son of Mary Watson Fillette of Byron and the late Solomon Zeagler. Bob was a graduate of Great Bridge High School...
Albert Joseph Belliveau
Oct 30, 2016
Gasport - Albert J. Belliveau, 79, of Gasport and St. Petersburg, 39-year employee of Caraustar Industries in Lockport, passed away peacefully on Sunday, October 30, 2016 surrounded by family. Mr. Belliveau was born September 1, 1937 in Lockport, a son of the late Lucien Belliveau and Marie Pellerin Belliveau. A member of St. Mary's Church in Gasport, he and his...
Katherine I. Hawkins
Oct 29, 2016
Batavia - Katherine I. Hawkins, 97, formerly of Batavia, a retiree from P.W. Minor Shoe Factory in Batavia, died Saturday, October 29, 2016 at LeRoy Village Green Nursing Facility, in LeRoy. Mrs. Hawkins was born July 11, 1919 in Oakfield, a daughter of the late Henry and Emma Garrod. She was a member of St. James Episcopal Church for over...
Phyllis M. Skelton
Oct 26, 2016
Lebanon, Tennessee – Mrs. Phyllis M. Skelton, 88, of Lebanon, Tennessee, a longtime resident of Elba, passed away on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at Quality Center for Rehabilitation and Healing. Mrs. Skelton was born June 10, 1928 in Batavia, a daughter of the late Arthur and Cora Nonnengard Blair. In her younger years, she and her husband enjoyed snowmobiling and...
Peter I. Rossi
Oct 26, 2016
Peter I. Rossi, 89, of LeRoy, passed away on Wednesday (October 26, 2016) at the New York State Veteran's Home in Batavia. Peter was born December 21, 1926 in Batavia, the son of the late Frank A. and Caroline (Sala) Rossi. A veteran, Peter served with the United States Navy during World War II and the Korean War. He is...
John F. "Jack" Robinson
Oct 24, 2016
Bergen - John F. "Jack" Robinson, 74, of Bergen, passed away unexpectedly on Monday, October 24, 2016 at Unity Hospital. Mr. Robinson was born August 21, 1942 in Bergen, a son of the late Carl and Helen Sherman Robinson. A longtime employee of the Village of Bergen's Department of Public Works, Jack was instrumental in developing, operating and maintaining Robinson's...
Trevor J. Mathisen
Oct 22, 2016
Byron - Trevor J. Mathisen, 13, passed away on Saturday, October 22, 2016 at Strong Memorial Hospital. Trevor was born November 15, 2002 in Batavia, the son of John M. and Amy Mills Mathisen of Byron. Trevor loved to play hockey and was a member of the Buffalo Stars. He enjoyed 4 wheeling, riding dirt bikes and spent countless hours...
Steven Lyle Mowers
Oct 18, 2016
Oakfield - Steven Lyle Mowers, 44, of Oakfield, NY, passed away on Tuesday, October 18, 2016 at United Memorial Medical Center, in Batavia. Mr. Mowers was born February 28, 1972 in Batavia, a son of Steven G. Mowers of Alexandria, PA and Karen (Dennis) Matters McComb of Oakfield. He served in Korea with the US Army from 1990 to 1992....
Stella Therese Balikowski
Oct 13, 2016
Balikowski, Stella Therese Byron/Buffalo - October 13, 2016, age 85, daughter of the late Stanley T. and Bernice (Kubik) Jaroszewski; wife of the late John G. Balikowski; mother of Kathleen Miller of Byron; mother-in-law of Carolann L. Miller of Byron grandmother of Jason A. Miller and Jennifer L. (David E.) Bellow, all of Lockport; sister of the late Helen(Jaroszewski) Czechowski....
Mary J. Gregory
Oct 12, 2016
Basom/Scio/Wichita, KS- Mary J. Gregory, 97, of Wichita, Kansas, formerly of Basom and Scio, a caretaker at the Migrant Day Care Center, in Batavia for 15 years, died October 12, 2016, at her home in Wichita, while under the care of Good Shepard Hospice. Mrs. Gregory was born December 5, 1918 in Tierra Amarilla, NM, the daughter of the late...
Stephanie "Stevie" Colantonio
Oct 12, 2016
East Bethany - Stephanie Colantonio, 97, of East Bethany, passed away suddenly on Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at her home. She was born November 23, 1918 in Herne Westfalen, Germany a daughter of the late John and Mary Wozniak. Her family came to the United States in 1922, settling on the family farm where Stevie spent the next 94 years....
Jackson J. "Jack" Burling
Oct 11, 2016
Jackson J. “Jack” Burling Batavia – Jackson J. “Jack” Burling, 89, of Batavia, passed away Tuesday, (October 11, 2016) at Crossroads House, in Batavia following a brief illness. Mr. Burling was born May 5, 1927 in Byron, a son of the late John and Lydia (Schultz) Burling. Jack served honorably with the Army and was a member of Emmanuel Baptist...
Annabelle P. Monaco
Oct 8, 2016
Annabelle P. Monaco, 79, of Batavia and formerly of Lackawanna, passed away on Saturday (October 8, 2016) at home under the care of Homecare & Hospice and her loving family. Annabelle was born January 19, 1937 in Lackawanna, a daughter of the late Angelo and Marianna Monaco. Annabelle enjoyed traveling, baking, cooking, reading and playing the slot machines. She loved...
Cheryl L. Gates
Oct 7, 2016
Cheryl Lynn Gates, 56, of Batavia passed away on Friday October 7, 2016 after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. Born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, on February 7, 1960, Cheryl was the third daughter of Ira MacDonald Gates and Irene Hogg Gates. She is survived by her father; sisters Susan J. Blanchard (Tom) of Lockport, NY, and Evalyn I. Gates (Eric...
