Word has been received of the death of Carol J. Defuria, age 75, of Saranac Lake, who died at her home on Sunday, March 6, 2022. Funeral arrangements are in care of the Fortune-Keough Funeral Home in Saranac Lake. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at this time.

Ora Louise Kingsley Smith, MD of Lake Placid and New York City passed away in New York City on Feb. 17, 2022 after a long and fulfilling life. She was 94. Ora Smith was born in West Orange, New Jersey on March 9, 1927 to Francis G. Kingsley and Ora Rimes Kingsley. She attended the Kent Place ...

Marie Elizabeth “Betty” Hewel passed away on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022, in Denver, Colorado at the age of 94. She was born in Houston, Texas on July 28, 1927 to Wilhelmina Kenyon Blayney and John Mcclusky Blayney. Betty moved from Texas to Long Island at a young age and graduated from ...

Laura (McDowell) Powers Curran, age 96, died on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 in Minoa. She was born in Dearborn, Michigan on June 25, 1925 to the late Etheridge and Charlotte (Hubbard) Powers. She resided most of her adult life in Baltimore, Maryland and was predeceased in 2011 by her husband ...

Susan Hohmann Rickard, of Lake Placid, passed away peacefully Feb. 25 with family by her side. Sue was born in Hartford, Connecticut on Nov. 12, 1948. She grew up in Andover, Connecticut and frequently travelled with her family to Lake Placid to hike the High Peaks starting in the late ...

Patrick J. Hahne, 45, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 20 at the Adirondack Medical Center after a brief illness. Born in Saranac Lake on April 25, 1976, he grew up in the Gabriel’s area and enjoyed the outdoors, especially fishing and ice fishing. Pat enjoyed hanging out with friends, his ...