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Charlotte M. Yerton

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Berlin – Charlotte M. Crandall Yerton, 83, of Hilltop Road, Berlin, NY, died on Saturday evening, July 7, 2012, at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center in Bennington, VT.
Born January 9, 1929, in Hancock, MA, she was the daughter of the late William and Pearl Goodell Crandall. She was the devoted wife of Donald A. Yerton, whom she married on December 14, 1946, in East Poestenkill, NY.
Mrs. Yerton came to Berlin as a young child and attended Berlin schools and, in early years, the Berlin United Methodist Church. She worked in a factory in Hoosick Falls, NY, in a shirt mill in Berlin and as an elementary school teacher’s aide before opening Yerton’s Fruit and Vegetable Stand on Route 22 in Berlin where she also sold homemade pies. Soon after, Mrs. Yerton operated one of the first convenience stores in the valley while helping her husband and her son Chris with the daily operation of the Taconic Valley Garage on Route 22. She truly enjoyed dealing with the public on a daily basis, and she will be dearly missed.
Survivors include her husband of 65 years, Donald, her children, Betty Lou and husband Ross Toromino of Savoy, MA, Allan and wife Karen Yerton and Chris A. Yerton and Jessica Wright, all of Berlin, her siblings, Josie and husband Richard Bentley of Berlin and Wanda and husband Harold Stanley of Pownal, VT, her grandchildren, Paul Tanner, Carrie Duda and John and Ross Toromino, and her great-grandchildren, Daniel Duda, Spenser Tanner, John Dewey and Kassidy Toromino, along with many nieces and nephews. She is pre-deceased by siblings, Otis, Arthur, William and Walter Crandall, Ella Mae Oakes and Dorothy Ackner.
Funeral services were held on Thursday, July 13, at 11 am in the Thomas M. Barber Funeral Home, 66 Armsby Road, Petersburgh, NY, where Rev. Matthew Olson officiated. Interment followed in the Berlin Community Cemetery.
Relatives and friends were invited for visitation on Wednesday from 4 to 7 pm in the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be given to the Berlin Rescue Squad in loving memory of Charlotte M. Yerton.