Eugene "Gene"-Usher-Obituary

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Eugene "Gene" Usher

Sep 16, 1928 - Oct 27, 2025

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Sending my sincere sympathies to you all. Gene was the BEST neighbor anyone could ask for! I have so missed our long conversations, over the fence, for the past 8 months or so. Boy did he live an abundant life-praise God!
I’ve heard all about how he met Sue, why they started going to church in Schuylerville, his grown children and where they live, his time in the service, the time he treated a whole group of troops who had poison ivy in their private area (LOL), when he moved into...

Gene, I miss you, Dear Cousin! I was hoping we would have another chance to play a few more tunes together, you on your fiddle, me on my banjo. Life and time said otherwise. I call you "Cousin" because I was there, long ago, when you and my Dear Cousin, Sue Griswold Usher, were married in Albany. I was just a kid, but I remember. I remember you and my Dad, Rudy Griswold, playing your violins together at our house. I remember a lot of good things about Gene Usher, a good man, and an...

Gene was a lovely, kind gentleman who always had a story to tell and something fun to talk about. His devotion to his wife Sue was something to be admired and he always loved talking to Wesley staff about both her and his children. We will miss him a great deal.

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Eugene "Gene"'s Obituary

Saratoga Springs, NY- Gene Usher lived in his home in Saratoga Springs with his wife until his recent move to Wesley Nursing Home where he died peacefully on October 27th at the age of 97.Gene was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on September 16, 1928, to Melvina and Merton Usher. He spent his...

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