100th anniversary

Community

Discussion

COMMENTING ON STORIES:

Welcome to our story comments feature. We welcome your thoughts and your opinions, including the unpopular ones. We only ask that you keep your conversations clean, civil and on the topic of the story you are commenting on.

Coinciding with our websites redesign, we launched our new story comments feature through Disqus.

Disqus gives users the ability to log into our story comments feature so that they may be able to track their conversations, receive emails when their comments get a reply or to even have your comments update onto your Facebook or Twitter accounts.

For the time being, our story comments feature will continue to have the ability to post comments anonymously. We reserve the right to require registration in the future using your name and verified email address.

Not all comments are deemed printable. Some are disqualified at the newspaper’s discretion for a number of different reasons. Please follow our Online Rules of Conduct at all times.

RULES OF CONDUCT:

We reserve the right to remove comments that are unacceptable, to wit:

1. False and inacurate statements.
2. Personal attacks. Explicit name-calling.
3. Harassing, harmful, vulgar, obscene and defamatory language.
4. Threatening statements or statements that suggest violence.
5. Hate speech of any kind.
6. Intolerant comments on religion, race, age, gender, sexual preference or disabilities.
7. Accusations of criminal activity.
8. Content that is harmful to children and minors in any way.
9. References to any type of sexual activity and other private matters.
10. Random and inflammatory statements that are off topic.
11. Advertising of any kind.
12. Typing in all caps.

WE ENCOURAGE REASONABLE AND COURTEOUS COMMENTS THAT:

1. Create conversation on issues of interest and concern to fellow readers and local community members.
2. Express opinions and contrarian views.
3. Stimulate debate with respectful language.
4. Stay within the boundaries of these rules.

WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SUSPEND OR TERMINATE ACCESS FOR:

1. Violating any of these Online Rules of Conduct.
2. Deliberately disrupting discussions with repetitive messages, meaningless messages or spam.
3. Misrepresentation of identity or impersonating another user.

WE WELCOME:

1. Flagging violations of these rules that you observe to our attention.

MONITORING:

We monitor comments regularly Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Approval of comments outside of this time (including weekends) will be sporadic.

comments powered by Disqus

September 29, 2009

Anonymous The Daily Star Tue Sep 29, 2009, 11:30 AM EDT

Mary Little Chambers, a resident of Robynwood Assisted Living Program at 43 Walnut St. in Oneonta, celebrated her 100th birthday Sept. 20.

She was born Sept. 20, 1909, on a farm on Cabin Hill in Andes. She was driven to school in a buggy or sleigh, depending on the weather, by her brother Gregg Little, family members said. She graduated from Andes High School and continued her education at Delhi Normal School, graduating in 1927.

After graduation, she taught in a one-room schoolhouse, and walked two miles every day to the school, arriving early to start the fire in the wood stove.

She married David R. Chambers in 1930. They lived in Walton for several years and then moved to Unadilla, where David started the livestock auction business D.R. Chambers & Sons. Mary worked various jobs there.

They raised their family of eight children in Unadilla and Mary lived in the town for more than 70 years.

After 35 years of marriage, her husband, Dave, passed away in 1965. She is still a member of the Presbyterian Church in Unadilla and has many fond memories of her friends there, according to family members. She’s lived at Robynwood Assisted Living for 2½ years.

On Aug. 22, her family held a birthday celebration and family reunion at the home of her youngest daughter, Linda Allen, of Oneonta. Her other children: Jim, John and Mike Chambers, of Unadilla; Dale, of Vernon; Madeline Grader, of Jacksonville, FL; Shirley Osterhoudt, of Homer, and Dottie McIntosh, of Lockport. were all there with their families. More than 60 family members attended with relatives coming from California, Mass., Pa., Maryland and New York state. She has 20 grandchildren, 29 great-grand children and one great-great grandchild.

Text Only

Community

Search Results

Discussion

100th anniversary

Should high schoolers play football despite the risk of concussions.

Site Map

Contact Us