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Obituaries

DEATH: William F. Brainerd

William F. Brainerd, 66, of Cambridge, passed away at his residence on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. Born in Sodus Point and raised in Ray Brook, he graduated from Saranac Lake High School before attending Fordham University. Funeral services will be held privately. Arrangements are in the ...

DEATH: Phil Perkins

Phil Perkins, 92, passed away peacefully in his sleep on Nov. 4, 2025. He was born March 3, 1933, the son of Francis and Lois (Lawrence) Perkins. He was raised with strong values that shaped his long, full life. He proudly served his country in the United States Army, spending part of his ...

Frederick Coverly Calder

Frederick Coverly Calder, born July 19, 1935, in Brooklyn, New York, passed away on Nov. 4, 2025. Fred spent his early childhood in Brooklyn before moving with his family to Garden City, Long Island, in 1941, where he attended St. Paul’s School. In 1950, the family settled in Concord, ...

Scott T. Benty

Scott Thomas Benty was born on June 25, 1948, in Placid Memorial Hospital on Church Street in Lake Placid (currently the tennis courts on Mirror Lake Drive) to Dorothy (Traynor/Bontecou) and Herbert Benty (World War II veteran). He graduated from St. Pius in 1966 and attended Northwood for ...

DEATH: Nathaniel Wells

Born April 6, 1931, in Ogdensburg, to Marie Lalone Wells and Lott Hall Wells, Nathaniel Wells was the second of four children. Nat died peacefully and comfortably, surrounded by his family on Sunday morning, Oct. 26, 2025, in the hospice unit at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany. A ...

Terry A. Chuba Sr.

Terry Andrew Chuba Sr. passed away at CVPH in Plattsburgh on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, at the age of 77. He was surrounded by loving family members as he embarked on a new journey into the next dimensional realm for which he had a lifelong philosophical interest and spiritual ...