Madison Courier---January 3, 2006
Geraldine Blanche Fonda Ayers, 85, of 1023 W. Main St., Vevay, formerly of Gloversville, NY died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2005, at Swiss Villa Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Vevay.
She was born April 27, 1920, in Amsterdam, N.Y., the daughter of John Henry and Caroline Agnes Lawyer Fonda. She had been employed in a glove factory in New York and had worked in food service in Sidney, N.Y. She had lived in Vevay since 2001, and had lived most of her life in New York and California. She was a member of the Vevay Church of Christ.
Surviving are one daughter, Sandra L. King (Donnie) of Ghent, Ky.; one son, John Howard Ayers (Jeanette) of Fort Plain, N.Y.; two sisters, Margaret Peggy Holley (James) of Walton, N.Y., and Dorothy Schroeder Norrin of California; daughter-in-law Mary of Northville, NY six grandchildren - Lonnie, Laurie and Lee Ayers; Jeri Ayers and Steve and Mark Peelman: 17 great-grandchildren; and ten great-great-grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, great nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Howard James Ayers, whom she married May 3, 1938 in Pownal, VT, and who died Aug. 16, 2003; one son, Dennis James Ayers, in 1989; one daughter, Mary Ayers; five brothers, Kenneth, Otis, Bill, Elden and Lawyer Fonda; and one grandson, John H. Ayers 2nd, one sister, Beverly Joan Ursuery of Somerton, Arizona.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Ferndale Cemetery in Johnstown, N.Y. There will be no visitation.
A Poem For Mother
written by Sandra Lee Ayers
Back in the year nineteen hundred and twenty
A girl child was delivered -----by the Easter Bunny!!!!!
April was the month, the day twenty-seven
She looked sweet and innocent, like an angel from heaven
Now here the year is nineteen hundred ninety-eight
The child is a woman of many years -----seventy-eight
She has stories to tell, and wisdom to impart
Her memoir's she will write, They come from the heart
SOMEDAY, they will be read by children and in awe ---
In six generations they'll say -- She was my great, great, great,
GREAT GRANDMAW !!!
Madison Courier---January 3, 2006
Geraldine Blanche Fonda Ayers, 85, of 1023 W. Main St., Vevay, formerly of Gloversville, NY died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2005, at Swiss Villa Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Vevay.
She was born April 27, 1920, in Amsterdam, N.Y., the daughter of John Henry and Caroline Agnes Lawyer Fonda. She had been employed in a glove factory in New York and had worked in food service in Sidney, N.Y. She had lived in Vevay since 2001, and had lived most of her life in New York and California. She was a member of the Vevay Church of Christ.
Surviving are one daughter, Sandra L. King (Donnie) of Ghent, Ky.; one son, John Howard Ayers (Jeanette) of Fort Plain, N.Y.; two sisters, Margaret Peggy Holley (James) of Walton, N.Y., and Dorothy Schroeder Norrin of California; daughter-in-law Mary of Northville, NY six grandchildren - Lonnie, Laurie and Lee Ayers; Jeri Ayers and Steve and Mark Peelman: 17 great-grandchildren; and ten great-great-grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, great nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Howard James Ayers, whom she married May 3, 1938 in Pownal, VT, and who died Aug. 16, 2003; one son, Dennis James Ayers, in 1989; one daughter, Mary Ayers; five brothers, Kenneth, Otis, Bill, Elden and Lawyer Fonda; and one grandson, John H. Ayers 2nd, one sister, Beverly Joan Ursuery of Somerton, Arizona.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Ferndale Cemetery in Johnstown, N.Y. There will be no visitation.
A Poem For Mother
written by Sandra Lee Ayers
Back in the year nineteen hundred and twenty
A girl child was delivered -----by the Easter Bunny!!!!!
April was the month, the day twenty-seven
She looked sweet and innocent, like an angel from heaven
Now here the year is nineteen hundred ninety-eight
The child is a woman of many years -----seventy-eight
She has stories to tell, and wisdom to impart
Her memoir's she will write, They come from the heart
SOMEDAY, they will be read by children and in awe ---
In six generations they'll say -- She was my great, great, great,
GREAT GRANDMAW !!!
Family Members
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Josie May Fonda
1913–1913
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Buelah Evelyn Fonda
1914–1914
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Winifred Fonda
1915–1915
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Arthur Clifford Fonda
1916–1920
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Otis John Fonda Sr
1918–2000
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Mrs Margaret Carole "Peg" Fonda Holley
1922–2017
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William Hazellette "Bill" Fonda
1923–1995
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PVT Lawyer Edwin Fonda
1925–1961
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Elden Lincoln Fonda
1927–1993
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Walter Kenneth "Kenny" Fonda
1928–1979
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Beverly Joan "Bev" Fonda Ursuery
1934–2001
