Our beloved mother, Virginia Alice Whitaker Beesmer, 81, of 150 Stone Road, West Hurley, N.Y., passed to her eternal reward on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017, in the home of her oldest son and daughter-in-Law, the Rev. Donald and Linda Snedeker, of 34 Snedeker Road, Clifford Twp., PA 18470-7571, after a yearlong battle with auto-immune nonalcoholic liver disease.
She was born on Nov. 28, 1935, in Mt. Marion, N.Y., the daughter of the late Theodore (Ted) R. Whitaker and Elizabeth Law Snedeker. She was educated in Kingston and Sandy Creek, N.Y., area schools. In around 1951, she moved from the Kingston area to the Snedeker Family Farm in Lacona, N.Y., where she resided in the upstate New York area, before returning in 1974, to the Kingston, N.Y., area where she has resided for the last 43 years.
In the early part of her life she was closely associated with the Free Methodist Church and was baptized in the Old Tremper Avenue Free Methodist Church of Kingston, N.Y., in 1939, by then pastor, the late Rev. Louis Smith. It is believed that she became a junior member of that church sometime later. She had many treasured memories of attending with her mother the summer annual Free Methodist Camp Meetings at Hancock, N.Y., often traveling there by train from Kingston. During the last 40 years of her life, she was closely associated with and supported the Evangelical Wesleyan Church, and was a faithful supporter of the Fox Hill Camp Meeting, near Northville, N.Y., and attended the Lake Idlewild and Great Bend, Pa. churches, when she was in the area. She also attended the Stone Ridge, N.Y. Pilgrim Holiness Church for several years.
For most of her life she was a stay-at-home mom and housewife, but she did work for a time at a needle manufacturing supply company, in Syracuse, N.Y. She was the bookkeeper and secretary for the Beesmer's Construction Co. Inc. until it closed in 2011.
Her lifelong dedication for over 50 years was for the love, care, health and happiness of her youngest disabled son, Thomas Bagalonis Jr. Her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren were the light of her life.
She is survived by her four sons, the Rev. Donald D. Snedeker and wife, Linda; Randy Snedeker and wife, Kathy, of Gloversville, N.Y.; Brian Bagalonis and wife, Joan, of West Hurley, N.Y.; and Thomas Bagalonis Jr., of Woodstock, N.Y.; two stepdaughters, 18 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren and many dear friends.
She was predeceased by her three husbands, Robert C. Snedeker, Thomas Bagalonis Sr. and Donald G. Beesmer; along with her stepfather, the Rev. Clarence A. Snedeker; a sister, Marjorie Whitaker Gagne; and a nephew, Timothy A. Fracassee.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Simpson-Gaus Funeral Home, 411 Albany Ave., Kingston, NY 12401, on Thursday Aug. 10, 2017, with viewing from noon to 2 p.m., and the funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Bishop W.L. Sarber, the Rev. Donald D. Snedeker Jr. and the Rev. Donald D. Snedeker Sr. officiating. Interment will be in the family plot at the Mt. Marion, N.Y. Cemetery.
Scranton Times
She was born on Nov. 28, 1935, in Mt. Marion, N.Y., the daughter of the late Theodore (Ted) R. Whitaker and Elizabeth Law Snedeker. She was educated in Kingston and Sandy Creek, N.Y., area schools. In around 1951, she moved from the Kingston area to the Snedeker Family Farm in Lacona, N.Y., where she resided in the upstate New York area, before returning in 1974, to the Kingston, N.Y., area where she has resided for the last 43 years.
In the early part of her life she was closely associated with the Free Methodist Church and was baptized in the Old Tremper Avenue Free Methodist Church of Kingston, N.Y., in 1939, by then pastor, the late Rev. Louis Smith. It is believed that she became a junior member of that church sometime later. She had many treasured memories of attending with her mother the summer annual Free Methodist Camp Meetings at Hancock, N.Y., often traveling there by train from Kingston. During the last 40 years of her life, she was closely associated with and supported the Evangelical Wesleyan Church, and was a faithful supporter of the Fox Hill Camp Meeting, near Northville, N.Y., and attended the Lake Idlewild and Great Bend, Pa. churches, when she was in the area. She also attended the Stone Ridge, N.Y. Pilgrim Holiness Church for several years.
For most of her life she was a stay-at-home mom and housewife, but she did work for a time at a needle manufacturing supply company, in Syracuse, N.Y. She was the bookkeeper and secretary for the Beesmer's Construction Co. Inc. until it closed in 2011.
Her lifelong dedication for over 50 years was for the love, care, health and happiness of her youngest disabled son, Thomas Bagalonis Jr. Her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren were the light of her life.
She is survived by her four sons, the Rev. Donald D. Snedeker and wife, Linda; Randy Snedeker and wife, Kathy, of Gloversville, N.Y.; Brian Bagalonis and wife, Joan, of West Hurley, N.Y.; and Thomas Bagalonis Jr., of Woodstock, N.Y.; two stepdaughters, 18 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren and many dear friends.
She was predeceased by her three husbands, Robert C. Snedeker, Thomas Bagalonis Sr. and Donald G. Beesmer; along with her stepfather, the Rev. Clarence A. Snedeker; a sister, Marjorie Whitaker Gagne; and a nephew, Timothy A. Fracassee.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Simpson-Gaus Funeral Home, 411 Albany Ave., Kingston, NY 12401, on Thursday Aug. 10, 2017, with viewing from noon to 2 p.m., and the funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Bishop W.L. Sarber, the Rev. Donald D. Snedeker Jr. and the Rev. Donald D. Snedeker Sr. officiating. Interment will be in the family plot at the Mt. Marion, N.Y. Cemetery.
Scranton Times
Our beloved mother, Virginia Alice Whitaker Beesmer, 81, of 150 Stone Road, West Hurley, N.Y., passed to her eternal reward on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017, in the home of her oldest son and daughter-in-Law, the Rev. Donald and Linda Snedeker, of 34 Snedeker Road, Clifford Twp., PA 18470-7571, after a yearlong battle with auto-immune nonalcoholic liver disease.
She was born on Nov. 28, 1935, in Mt. Marion, N.Y., the daughter of the late Theodore (Ted) R. Whitaker and Elizabeth Law Snedeker. She was educated in Kingston and Sandy Creek, N.Y., area schools. In around 1951, she moved from the Kingston area to the Snedeker Family Farm in Lacona, N.Y., where she resided in the upstate New York area, before returning in 1974, to the Kingston, N.Y., area where she has resided for the last 43 years.
In the early part of her life she was closely associated with the Free Methodist Church and was baptized in the Old Tremper Avenue Free Methodist Church of Kingston, N.Y., in 1939, by then pastor, the late Rev. Louis Smith. It is believed that she became a junior member of that church sometime later. She had many treasured memories of attending with her mother the summer annual Free Methodist Camp Meetings at Hancock, N.Y., often traveling there by train from Kingston. During the last 40 years of her life, she was closely associated with and supported the Evangelical Wesleyan Church, and was a faithful supporter of the Fox Hill Camp Meeting, near Northville, N.Y., and attended the Lake Idlewild and Great Bend, Pa. churches, when she was in the area. She also attended the Stone Ridge, N.Y. Pilgrim Holiness Church for several years.
For most of her life she was a stay-at-home mom and housewife, but she did work for a time at a needle manufacturing supply company, in Syracuse, N.Y. She was the bookkeeper and secretary for the Beesmer's Construction Co. Inc. until it closed in 2011.
Her lifelong dedication for over 50 years was for the love, care, health and happiness of her youngest disabled son, Thomas Bagalonis Jr. Her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren were the light of her life.
She is survived by her four sons, the Rev. Donald D. Snedeker and wife, Linda; Randy Snedeker and wife, Kathy, of Gloversville, N.Y.; Brian Bagalonis and wife, Joan, of West Hurley, N.Y.; and Thomas Bagalonis Jr., of Woodstock, N.Y.; two stepdaughters, 18 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren and many dear friends.
She was predeceased by her three husbands, Robert C. Snedeker, Thomas Bagalonis Sr. and Donald G. Beesmer; along with her stepfather, the Rev. Clarence A. Snedeker; a sister, Marjorie Whitaker Gagne; and a nephew, Timothy A. Fracassee.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Simpson-Gaus Funeral Home, 411 Albany Ave., Kingston, NY 12401, on Thursday Aug. 10, 2017, with viewing from noon to 2 p.m., and the funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Bishop W.L. Sarber, the Rev. Donald D. Snedeker Jr. and the Rev. Donald D. Snedeker Sr. officiating. Interment will be in the family plot at the Mt. Marion, N.Y. Cemetery.
Scranton Times
She was born on Nov. 28, 1935, in Mt. Marion, N.Y., the daughter of the late Theodore (Ted) R. Whitaker and Elizabeth Law Snedeker. She was educated in Kingston and Sandy Creek, N.Y., area schools. In around 1951, she moved from the Kingston area to the Snedeker Family Farm in Lacona, N.Y., where she resided in the upstate New York area, before returning in 1974, to the Kingston, N.Y., area where she has resided for the last 43 years.
In the early part of her life she was closely associated with the Free Methodist Church and was baptized in the Old Tremper Avenue Free Methodist Church of Kingston, N.Y., in 1939, by then pastor, the late Rev. Louis Smith. It is believed that she became a junior member of that church sometime later. She had many treasured memories of attending with her mother the summer annual Free Methodist Camp Meetings at Hancock, N.Y., often traveling there by train from Kingston. During the last 40 years of her life, she was closely associated with and supported the Evangelical Wesleyan Church, and was a faithful supporter of the Fox Hill Camp Meeting, near Northville, N.Y., and attended the Lake Idlewild and Great Bend, Pa. churches, when she was in the area. She also attended the Stone Ridge, N.Y. Pilgrim Holiness Church for several years.
For most of her life she was a stay-at-home mom and housewife, but she did work for a time at a needle manufacturing supply company, in Syracuse, N.Y. She was the bookkeeper and secretary for the Beesmer's Construction Co. Inc. until it closed in 2011.
Her lifelong dedication for over 50 years was for the love, care, health and happiness of her youngest disabled son, Thomas Bagalonis Jr. Her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren were the light of her life.
She is survived by her four sons, the Rev. Donald D. Snedeker and wife, Linda; Randy Snedeker and wife, Kathy, of Gloversville, N.Y.; Brian Bagalonis and wife, Joan, of West Hurley, N.Y.; and Thomas Bagalonis Jr., of Woodstock, N.Y.; two stepdaughters, 18 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren and many dear friends.
She was predeceased by her three husbands, Robert C. Snedeker, Thomas Bagalonis Sr. and Donald G. Beesmer; along with her stepfather, the Rev. Clarence A. Snedeker; a sister, Marjorie Whitaker Gagne; and a nephew, Timothy A. Fracassee.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Simpson-Gaus Funeral Home, 411 Albany Ave., Kingston, NY 12401, on Thursday Aug. 10, 2017, with viewing from noon to 2 p.m., and the funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Bishop W.L. Sarber, the Rev. Donald D. Snedeker Jr. and the Rev. Donald D. Snedeker Sr. officiating. Interment will be in the family plot at the Mt. Marion, N.Y. Cemetery.
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