Obituaries

Mark Niedhammer and I went to high school together in upstate New York. Somehow we both ended up in Salisbury.

Our paths did not cross until about 30 years after our youthful days in high school.

NORTH CANAAN — Emma K. (Luminati) Craft, 104, died Jan. 8, 2022, at Geer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

She was the widow of Howard Craft.

Emma was born Feb. 19, 1917, in Salisbury, daughter of the late Celesta (Guiliani) and Louis Luminati.

SHARON — Janis Elizabeth Downey, 83, died Jan. 3, 2022,  in Sharon.

She was the loving wife of the late John A. Downey MD.

Janis was born on June 14, 1938, in Uxbridge in Middlesex, UK, the only child of Arnold and Katherine (née Procter) Piggott.

LAKEVILLE — Peter Demarest Adams, 77, died peacefully at home in Ashfield, Mass., from Parkinson’s disease on Dec. 24, 2021.

SALISBURY — Mary Agnus (Towers) Laidman, 97, died Jan. 1, 2022. She was the wife for 42 years of Dr. Herbert Andrew Laidman, who predeceased her in 1987.

Mary was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 31, 1924, the daughter of the late Mary (Campbell) and Daniel John Towers.

KENT — Michael Wilfrid Sheldon of Kent passed away at home peacefully after a prolonged battle with cancer at the age of 75.

He was born Sept. 30, 1946, in Lynn, Mass., the son of the late Merna (Meekin) and Wilfrid Sheldon.

MILLERTON — Camille Ann Socci, 76, a 10-year resident of Millerton and formerly a longtime Wingdale, N.Y., resident died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, at Danbury Hospital following a lengthy illness.

MILLERTON — Thomas F. Healy III, 63, passed on to be with the Lord on the evening of Dec. 27, 2021, at the Kaplan Family Hospice Residence in Newburgh, N.Y.