Longtime Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation President and Trustee Donald Whitney died on Sunday following a brief illness. He was 72. Mr. Whitney was born Jan. 29, 1948, in Watertown, Jefferson County. Following his graduation in 1966 from Adams Center Central ...

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Longtime state Assemblyman and civil rights advocate David Gantt died Wednesday. He was 78. Mr. Gantt was born in 1941, in Opp, Ala. He was the oldest of five brothers, growing up in a single-parent household with humble beginnings. His ...

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Lester Eber, who worked for more than six decades in the wine and liquor industry, much of that time representing the former family-owned Eber Brothers Wine & Liquor distribution company in Rochester, died April 5 from complications of COVID-19. He ...

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A funeral was held Monday for Joseph Fee, co-owner of Fee Brothers, the Rochester-based, fourth-generation maker of bitters, mixes, cordials and other flavorings for cocktails. He was 55. Mr. Fee, who died on Friday of complications from a respiratory infection, ...

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