Clara M Eckerson

CLARA M. ECKERSON 90 PASSED AWAY SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2013 AT SARATOGA HOSPITAL IN SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY SURROUNDED BY HER LOVING FAMILY. BORN MAY 23, 1922 IN WASHINGTON, NJ TO FRANCIS AND MARIE SERJEANT. 

CLARA LOVED TO VOLUNTEER AND DID SO FOR MANY YEARS IN ELLENVILLE, NY AT THE HOSPITAL, FOR ULSTER COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS AND THE ELLENVILLE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.  VOLUNTEERING FOR THE LAST 9 YEARS AT NOAH'S ATTIC IN BALLSTON SPA, NY WHERE SHE MADE SO MANY FRIENDS. 

CLARA IS SURVIVED BY HER DAUGHTER SANDRA (GARY) MASTEN, OF SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY, SON WILLIAM (MARSHA) ECKERSON OF SUMMERFIELD, FL, CHERISHED GRANDMOTHER OF DENISE SCHYLJUK (FIANCE JOHN BARDINO) AND JEFFREY (CYNTHIA) MASTEN, LOVING GREAT GRANDMOTHER TO ALEX, CHRISTOPHER, MATTHEW, KAITLYN, ASHLEY, CARLY AND MICHAEL, BROTHER'S FRANCIS (MARIANNE) SERJEANT OF MONTROSE, PA AND EUGENE SERJEANT OF GRAHAM, WA, MANY NIECES, NEPHEWS AND LOVING FRIENDS.

CLARA WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND WILLIAM C. ECKERSON, SON LEE M. ECKERSON AND GRANDSON BRIAN W. MASTEN, SISTER'S DOROTHY PASIUT, ETHEL SERJEANT AND BROTHER ROBERT SERJEANT.  

MEMORIAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT THE MALTA RIDGE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WITH PASTOR PENNY BRINK AT A LATER TIME.  

INTERMENT WILL BE AT PHILLIPBURG CEMETERY IN MIDDLETOWN, NY IN THE SPRING. 

IN LIEU OF FLOWERS PLEASE MAKE A DONATION IN MEMORY OF CLARA TO A CHARITY OF ONE'S CHOICE.