Worth was born May 25, 1949, in Randolph, Vermont.

He had three older sisters and two younger brothers. The family moved to Newcomb, New York, in 1954, where his father owned and operated a sawmill.

Selected as the winner of a baseball scholarship, Worth graduated from Buffalo State University in 1974, originally planning to become a teacher.

During an exchange semester in Bozeman, he fell in love with Montana.

Although he never moved there permanently, he returned often and was perhaps happiest when hunting, skiing, and fishing in that breath-taking mountainscape.

But his home was upstate New York. He worked in construction in the Saratoga area and moved to Lake Placid in 1992, where he met his wife Christine and soon started his own company: Shampeny Contracting.

His work was his passion. He loved building and selling houses in remote settings and on lakes.

Reliability, precision and honest, old-fashioned hard work characterized him. Friends, co-workers and clients quickly warmed to Worth and admired his shy, polite manner.

Painfully soon after retirement, he contracted leukemia and endured half a year of intensive and difficult treatment; Christine was there for him in good days and bad.

He is survived by Christine; sisters Gloria and Pam; brothers John and Gary; daughter Brittany; and many nephews and nieces.

There will be a memorial service at 10 a.m. March 9 at St. Agnes Church.

The M. B. Clark, Inc., Funeral Home in Lake Placid is in charge of arrangements. Please visit www.mbclarkfuneralhome.com to share a memory or leave condolences.