Hoosick – Marlene (Blakeney) Cipperly, 80, died Friday, August 1, 2014, at The Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Hoosick Falls, NY. Marlene formerly resided on Cipperly Road in Breese Hollow, Hoosick, NY. She was the wife of the former Dean W. Cipperly, who passed in 1992.
Born on October 10, 1933, Marlene was the daughter of David and Madeline (Fletcher) Blakeney. Marlene was a member of the Vermont Grange, NY Farm Bureau, Woman’s Farm Bureau, Hoosick Miss Softball, Town of Hoosick Rescue Squad and the Hoosick Falls PTA. She loved her gardens and going to her granddaughters’ events. Her life-long ambition was to be a nurse, but she became very satisfied being a LNA at the Crescent Manor Care Center in Bennington, VT. Marlene worked at Crescent Manor for 31 years. In her younger years she had worked at the Chelsea Nursing Home.
Survivors include her two daughters, Beth Cipperly and Nellie Miller, and the light of her life, her precious granddaughter, Sydney Miller, her sister, Jessie Mundell, her three brothers, John Blakeney and wife Violet, Raymond Blakeney and David Blakeney, her sisters-in-law, Mary Cipperly, Betty Kipp, Marion Cipperly, Vera Griswald and Becky and husband Bob Cipperly, as well as many nieces and nephews and great-nieces and great-nephews and many loving neighbors. She is pre-deceased by a brother, Charles “Tom” Blakeney.
Relatives and friends called at the Mahar Funeral Home, 43 Main Street, Hoosick Falls, NY, 12090, on Monday, August 4, from 3 to 5 pm. The funeral service was held from the funeral home on Monday at 5 pm.
Memorial contributions may be made to either the Town of Hoosick Rescue Squad or the Town of Hoosick Rescue Squad Youth Group through the funeral home.