Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Ithaca, NY

Michael D. Morley
Oct 11, 2020
Michael D. Morley, 90 of Ithaca, died Sunday, October 11, 2020 at Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, PA.
Arrangements are pending and will be announced.

Janet Marie Volpicelli
Oct 5, 2020
Janet Marie Volpicelli, 88, of Ithaca, passed away peacefully Monday, October 05, 2020. Loving wife to Ed Volpicelli and mother to Sue Volpicelli.
Graveside services will be held Friday, October 9, 2020 at 10 A.M. at Calvary Cemetery with Fr. Augustine Chumo officiating. Donations in Janet's memory may be made to the SPCA of Tompkins...

Oscar John Strebel
Oct 4, 2020
Oscar John Strebel
March 27, 1924 - October 4, 2020
Oscar Strebel was born on March 27, 1924 in the Bronx, New York to Julia Bussinger and Jacob Strebel. After graduating from Morris High School in June 1942, he later became a Radar Communications Technician with Pan American Airlines....

Sarah C. Miller
Oct 2, 2020
Sarah C. Miller, 102, of Cliff St., Ithaca, NY, died Friday, October 2, 2020 at Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, PA. She was born in Ithaca on November 28, 1917 and was the widow of Elens B. Miller.
Sarah was retired after being a self-employed housecleaner her entire adult life. She was the oldest active parishioner...
George H. Apgar
Oct 2, 2020
George H. Apgar of Ithaca, NY, died Friday, October 02, 2020 after a long, courageous battle to get well and come home. George never gave up. He was born in Ithaca, son of the late Edwin and Alice Burkless Apgar. He graduated from Ithaca High School in 1959 and enlisted in the United States Army, serving from 1959 to...
Irene L. Wojcik
Oct 2, 2020
Irene L Wojcik, 78, passed away peacefully on Friday, October 2, 2020, at Cayuga Medical Center, Ithaca, NY. Irene was born on November 2, 1941, in Utica, the daughter of the late Alfred and Jennie (Ruchwa) Labuz.
Irene was a graduate of UFA and had worked at Munson Williams Proctor Institute until her retirement in 2011. She...

Lorraine Abraham
Sep 28, 2020
Lorraine Abraham, of Myers Heights, passed away peacefully on Monday, September 28, 2020.
Private graveside services will be held at Pine Grove Cemetery, Lansing, NY.

Sidney Saltzman
Sep 23, 2020
Sidney Saltzman 94, of Savage Farm Dr., Ithaca, NY, died September 23, 2020 at Kendal at Ithaca. Private graveside services will be held at Lakeview Cemetery.
A complete obituary will follow.

Kevin L. Bowers
Sep 22, 2020
Kevin L. Bowers, 60, of Ithaca, NY, died September 22, 2020 at his home. He was born in Martinsburg, WV, son of the late Kenneth and Eleanor Stanley Bowers and had currently been employed as a cook at Mix Kitchen & Bar.
Friends may call on Monday, October 05, 2020 from 2:30 to 4:30 pm...
Frances W. Resler
Sep 21, 2020
It is with sadness that the family of Frances Resler (nee Williams) announces her passing on September 21, 2020. Frances married her husband Edwin L. Resler, Jr in Miami in 1948, after which they relocated to Ithaca NY where they spent their remaining years and raised their children. Frances was a beloved wife, mother and grandmother. Her...
Mary Jane Wheaton
Sep 21, 2020
“There is a time to weep and a time to laugh.” The family of Mary Jane Steel Wheaton, the wife of retired Ithaca Fire Department Assistant Fire Chief, Ray Wheaton will celebrate her life on Saturday, August 7, 2021 with a graveside service at 11:00 at Calvary Cemetery, 636 5 Mile Drive, Ithaca, NY.
...Anthony Joseph Scaglione
Sep 18, 2020
Anthony Joseph Scaglione
Anthony Joseph Scaglione, age 85 of Speed Hill Road Brooktondale, N.Y.passed away on September 18th 2020. He was the son of the late Joseph andCordelia Mae Scaglione who owned and operated Mae's Little Kitchen onLincoln Street, where they had many neighbors and friends. Anthony lovedto recall all his friends from those earlier...
Dalva E. Hedlund
Sep 17, 2020
Dalva Eugene Hedlund
Ithaca - The only child of Dalva Emanuel and Wilma (Behrens) Hedlund was born and raised in Pueblo, CO and died Sept 17, 2020 after living with cancer for the last 4.5 years.
Upon completion of his ROTC training and B.S. in 1961 from Colorado State...
Martha Milliman
Sep 17, 2020
Martha "Marty" Milliman passed away surrounded by her family at 9:50 PM on September 17, 2020. Born to a German-Moravian family in Brno, Czechoslovakia on January 8, 1935, Marty resiliently made it through a childhood marked by the horrors of war to find a happy ending when she met and fell in love with U.S. Airman Gene...

Barbara Johnson Foote
Sep 15, 2020
Barbara Johnson Foote, ne Barbara Huntington Jones: farm girl, home demonstration agent, wife, mother, educator, author, and a friend to all, died today, September 15, 2020, at the age of 99. As an educator, I wonder if she considered 99 a special number; one that bespeaks excellence, yet leaves a reason to strive on. Barbara, you were...

Rosemary Anderson
Sep 13, 2020
Mrs. Rosemary King Anderson of Berkshire, NY died unexpectedly on September 13, 2020 at the age of 74.
Rosemary is survived by her husband Robert, daughter and son-in-law Blaise and Brian Hoopes, daughter and son-in-law Rebecca and Lane Simon, daughter and son-in-law Faye and Cameron Fort, son Christopher Anderson, and seven grandchildren. She is predeceased...
Walter James Wiggins
Sep 9, 2020
Walter J. Wiggins
February 23, 1925 – September 9, 2020
The world has lost a renaissance man!
Attorney…Hotelier…Restaurateur…Author…TennisChampion…Civil Rights Activist…Union Organizer…Photographer…US Marine Corporal…Woodworker…Sailor…Teller of Stories…
Husband…Father…Grandfather, Great Grandfather and Great Great Grandfather
Wally was born in St. Louis on February 23,...

Donald A. Cacciotti
Sep 6, 2020
Donald A. Cacciotti, 90, lifelong Ithaca and Korean War veteran, died Sunday, September 06, 2020 at the Cayuga Medical Center.
Arrangements are pending.
Margaret George
Sep 6, 2020
Margaret J. George
Ithaca, NY – Margaret Johnston George, age 98, left this world peacefully, attended by her grandson and other local family, at her residence in Kendal at Ithaca on September 6, 2020. She was beloved by a large extended family and many dear friends. She had been living at Kendal since...
Kevin R. Talty
Sep 6, 2020
Kevin R. Talty, 56, of Ithaca, NY, passed away unexpectedly at his home on Sunday, September 6, 2020. He was a loving father, husband, brother, and friend.
Kevin was born October 26, 1963 in Buffalo, NY; the oldest of 6 siblings. He was a proud lifelong, although often frustrated, Bills and Sabres fan....