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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Altamont</strong> <strong>Enterprise</strong> – Thursday, December 20, 2012 27<br />
Obituaries<br />
Denise M. Shutter<br />
ALTAMONT — Denise M. Shutter, a loving wife, mother, and<br />
grandmother, died on Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. She was 56.<br />
Mrs. Shutter was an Auxiliary member of the American Legion<br />
<strong>Post</strong> 1493 of Voorheesvile for over 25 years.<br />
“Denise spent the last few years at home, where she enjoyed being<br />
with her family, traveling, cooking, and making sure everyone was<br />
well taken care of,” wrote her family in a tribute. <strong>The</strong>y also wrote<br />
she was “an amazing grandmother.”<br />
She is survived by her husband, William J. Shutter II; her<br />
children, Darshane, Jayden, and William III; her grandchildren,<br />
Payton and Amelia; her parents, Donald G. Duncan Sr. and Mae<br />
E. Duncan; her brothers, Darrell, Don Jr., Darrin; and her sisters,<br />
Debbie, Dodie, and Dee.<br />
A funeral service was held at the Fredendall Funeral Home in<br />
<strong>Altamont</strong> on Dec. 17. Interment was at the Prospect Hill Cemetery<br />
in Guilderland.<br />
James F. Reed<br />
James F. Reed<br />
GUILDERLAND — James F. Reed, a Vietnam War veteran who<br />
married his high school sweetheart and enjoyed coaching Little<br />
League sports and helping the elderly, died unexpectedly on Sunday<br />
Dec. 16, 2012. He was 68.<br />
Known to friends as Jimmy, he<br />
referred to his mother, Hazel M.<br />
Reed, as “a local nursing home<br />
legend.” She owned the Guilderland<br />
Center Nursing Home,<br />
where Jimmy Reed became an<br />
administrator.<br />
Mr. Reed was a lifelong Guilderland<br />
resident and a 1962<br />
Guilderland High School graduate.<br />
He served in the United<br />
States Air Force as a radar controller<br />
during the Vietnam era,<br />
after which he attended Bethel<br />
College and Junior College of<br />
<strong>Albany</strong>.<br />
Mr. Reed married his high<br />
school sweetheart, Donna (Kiernan)<br />
Reed in 1969. <strong>The</strong> two<br />
met in high school when he was<br />
17 years old.<br />
“He was my best friend, my everything, forty-three years was not<br />
enough time,” said his wife.<br />
“When I first saw him, he was playing basketball on the court,”<br />
recalled Mrs. Reed, reflecting on her days as a student at Guilderland<br />
High School.<br />
In his own words, before his death, Mr. Reed wrote, “Donna,<br />
who had given me so much more than I deserve. Truer words were<br />
never spoken.”<br />
Mr. Reed was a long-term president and administrator of the<br />
Guilderland Center Nursing Home from about 1970 to 1990. He<br />
believed the facility’s outstanding reputation was the result of the<br />
loyal and dedicated staff working there.<br />
He was the former long-term President of the New York State<br />
Health Facilities District 5 and the New York State Health Facilities<br />
board member.<br />
“He was brought up in that business, his mother started a nursing<br />
home with just 12 beds,” said Donna Reed. “As a little boy coming<br />
home from school, about eight or nine, he helped serve dinner to<br />
residents.”<br />
“He loved working with kids and helping the elderly.”<br />
Mr. Reed was a former President of the Guilderland Chamber of<br />
Commerce in its early, formative years. He was an avid coach of the<br />
champion Pine Bush Little League and of the Pine Bush Softball<br />
League. He was active with the Capital District Soccer Club and<br />
the Soccer Select Team, which traveled internationally. He was<br />
the co-founder of the Guilderland Lettermen Golf Classic, which is<br />
dedicated to Guilderland athletes’ collegiate scholarships.<br />
“He loved working with kids and helping the elderly. He always<br />
volunteered and was involved in all kinds of sports, “ said Mrs.<br />
Donna Reed.<br />
Mr. Reed had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and spent a<br />
great deal of time at the library, where he researched various topics<br />
depending on which book he was reading, he wife said.<br />
Mr. Reed was devoted to his family dogs that were always waiting<br />
at the door for him to return home.<br />
He will always be remembered for his compassion for the elderly<br />
and kids. “Everyone who knew him knew that,” said his wife. “He<br />
was so proud of the nursing home staff he worked with.”<br />
****<br />
Mr. Reed is survived by his wife, Donna; his daughter, Jill Sheehan<br />
and her husband, James; his son, James F. Reed II and his wife,<br />
Jamie; and four grandchildren, Morgan K. Reed of New City and<br />
Quinn, Riley and Kieran Sheehan of Hingham, Mass.<br />
Family and friends are invited to a graveside memorial service at<br />
10:30 a.m., Today, Dec. 20, at the Saratoga National Cemetery. Mr.<br />
Reed will be buried with full military honors.<br />
Memorial donations may be sent to St. Jude’s Church, <strong>Post</strong> Office<br />
Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148, Contribution # 32289509,<br />
or to Guilderland Lettermen Foundation, 215 Vincenva Lane,<br />
Schenectady, NY 12303.<br />
— Tyler Murphy<br />
Pauline Mary Bosset<br />
BERNE — Flowers, jars, rowboats, barns, and British buses —<br />
Pauline Bosset painted quiet, still objects, remaining loyal to her<br />
eye, her country, and her family.<br />
Pauline Mary Bosset died peacefully on Saturday Dec. 15, 2012,<br />
at the Community Hospice of <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>. She was 86.<br />
Mrs. Bosset’s oil paintings have been rotated at the <strong>Altamont</strong> Key<br />
Bank for years, and have won prizes at the <strong>Altamont</strong> Fair amateur<br />
painters’ contests. Her husband, George Bosset, says the precious<br />
ones are hanging at his home.<br />
“She did it primarily for her own enjoyment,” said Mr. Bosset on<br />
Tuesday. “As a matter of fact, today, my daughter took one of them<br />
home with her, again. I’ve got what I want right here.”<br />
Born in London, Mrs. Bosset was evacuated to Wales during the<br />
Second World War, later staying in the south London suburb of<br />
Norbury.<br />
Mr. Bosset was a young man from New Jersey working in London<br />
as a gofer at an American military base for the 8th Airborne. Standing<br />
in line for a movie, a woman overheard him speak.<br />
“This American woman turned around and said, ‘You sound like<br />
you’re from New York.’ I said, ‘No, New Jersey,’ and she said, ‘Close<br />
enough.’”<br />
<strong>The</strong> woman was Mrs. Bosset’s friend who introduced the couple.<br />
Within the year, they agreed to marry as they were walking along<br />
the River Thames.<br />
“We hit it off and we hit it off for 67 years,” said Mr. Bosset.<br />
Mr. Bosset worked during the week for Essex <strong>County</strong> in New<br />
Jersey, driving up to Berne every weekend, where the couple had<br />
their home. <strong>The</strong> builder constructed the outside shell, including the<br />
fireplace and foundation, but the Bossets for 15 years filled it in with<br />
plaster, flooring, plumbing, and electrical work. Mrs. Bosset carefully<br />
refinished and stained the woodwork done by Mr. Bosset.<br />
“She was wonderful,” said Mr. Bosset, recalling her talent with<br />
a brush.<br />
Mrs. Bosset was a gardener and extended her aesthetic education<br />
to include pottery and cake decorating lessons.<br />
After the Bossets married in England when Mrs. Bosset was<br />
around 18, they came to the United States in 1946.<br />
Ever the British subject, Mrs. Bosset never became an American<br />
citizen.<br />
“I never noticed her accent,” said Mr. Bosset. “I don’t, but anytime<br />
she spoke to someone they’d say, ‘You sound like you’re British.’”<br />
Noting her sense of humor, Mr. Bosset recalled her common response<br />
to the question of whether, after so many years, she would<br />
become an American citizen: “You know, I don’t know whether I’m<br />
going to like it over here or not.”<br />
“I don’t ever remember having an argument with her.<br />
<strong>The</strong>re was no point in it.”<br />
<strong>The</strong> cats Mrs. Bosset loved and cared for are too many for Mr.<br />
Bosset to count, he said, and they are never around at the same<br />
time. Her paintings have similarly been distributed and have taken<br />
new homes with friends and family.<br />
“I don’t ever remember having an argument with her,” said Mr.<br />
Bosset. “<strong>The</strong>re was no point in it.”<br />
****<br />
Pauline Mary Bosset is survived by her husband, George, to whom<br />
she was married for 67 years, as well as by her three children, Robert<br />
Bosset of Schenectady, Frances Brown of Berne, and Jacqueline Moore<br />
of Berne; three grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter.<br />
Arrangements are by the Meyers Funeral Home at 741 Delaware<br />
Ave. in Delmar. She requested there be no service. Memorial contributions<br />
may be made to the Community Hospice of <strong>Albany</strong> <strong>County</strong>,<br />
445 New Karner Rd., <strong>Albany</strong>, N.Y. 12205, or to the Alzheimer’s<br />
Association, Northeastern New York Chapter, 85 Watervliet Ave.,<br />
<strong>Albany</strong>, N.Y. 12206.<br />
– Marcello Iaia<br />
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In MeMorIaM<br />
In Loving Memory<br />
of our Brother<br />
Kenneth J. Cole<br />
We do not need a special day to<br />
bring you to our minds. <strong>The</strong> days<br />
we do not think of you are very<br />
hard to find.<br />
Each morning, when we wake,<br />
we know that you are gone and<br />
no one knows the heartaches as<br />
we try to carry on.<br />
Our hearts still ache with sadness,<br />
and secret tears still show<br />
what it means to lose you. Our<br />
thoughts are always with you.<br />
Your place no one can fill, in<br />
life we loved you dearly, in death<br />
we love you still. We love you<br />
forever.<br />
Love,<br />
Larry, Donna, James and<br />
<strong>The</strong>lma<br />
In MeMorIaM<br />
Betty Martin<br />
April 16, 1920-<br />
December 18, 2004<br />
Mom,<br />
It’s been 8 years since you left<br />
me. Though your smile is gone forever<br />
and your hand I can not touch,<br />
I still have so many memories of<br />
the one I loved so much.<br />
Your memory is my keepsake<br />
with which I’ll never part. God<br />
has you in his keeping, I have you<br />
in my heart.<br />
Miss you so much Mom.<br />
Merry Christmas. I love you.<br />
Your daughter,<br />
Bobby<br />
In MeMorIaM<br />
Albert Spawn<br />
April 25, 1925 -<br />
December 27, 2005<br />
We know you still had things<br />
on earth<br />
To say and to do,<br />
But your family is grateful<br />
For making our dreams<br />
come true.<br />
As a husband, dad and grandpa,<br />
You were a gem.<br />
Each of us appreciated<br />
What you did for them.<br />
Our family has grown<br />
With four great-granddaughters<br />
And handsome twin<br />
great-grandsons,<br />
<strong>The</strong>y’ve brought smiles<br />
and laughter<br />
And our hearts they have won.<br />
Soon the number of<br />
great-grandkids<br />
Will be numbered at eight,<br />
And we know you will be<br />
smiling on them<br />
From your special seat at<br />
Heaven’s gate.<br />
Although we can’t see you,<br />
We know you are near.<br />
<strong>The</strong> warmth of your spirit,<br />
Fills each Christmas Eve<br />
atmosphere.<br />
Once again, as we gather,<br />
Please join us here.<br />
Love you, Always,<br />
Bet and Family<br />
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