William LaFleur Jr.

LaFleur, William Jr.
SARATOGA SPRINGS - William G. La Fleur Jr., 85 of Saratoga Springs, died on June 17, 2023, at The Wesley Community.
Born in Albany on April 11, 1938, and raised in North Albany, he was the son of the late William G. La Fleur Sr. and Cornelia (Van Der Plas) La Fleur.
He was predeceased by his sister, Joanne Mahar, of Apopka, Fla. He is survived by his brother, David J. La Fleur Sr. and sister-in-law, Denise Day, of Menands. He is also survived by three children, Robert La Fleur (Kristin) of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Jennifer Christianson (Troy) of Faribault, Minn., and their mother, Karen La Fleur of Orlando, Fla., and Steven La Fleur (Karen) of Feura Bush. He is further survived by seven grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and six nieces and nephews.
Bill was also blessed over many years with special friends: John and Marie Natale, Paul and Patricia Guarnieri, Harry and Debbie MacAvoy; and his long-time summer seatmates at the Saratoga Race Track: Mitchell Goronski, Jane Schneider, and Ed and Kelly Lawless.
Bill was a graduate of the Vincentian Institute in Albany, the State University of New York at Albany, and held a master's degree in political science from the State University of New York's Graduate School of Public Affairs. From 1968-1969, he attended Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs as a Mid-Career Government Fellow.
He served in the U. S. Marine Corps from 1956 to 1958. Beginning in 1962, Bill began his 33-year career in human resource development with New York State government. He was a training officer with the Department of Taxation and Finance, assistant director of training in the Labor Department, director of Manpower Staff Development and Training for the Transportation Department, and an assistant director of Program Planning and Development with the Governor's Office of Employee Relations. He was a past chairman of the New York State Training Council. After his retirement from state government in 1995, he was employed for over ten years at Shadow Products in Malta.
Interment will be in the Gerald B.H. Solomon National Cemetery in Schuylerville on Friday, July 28, at 11 a.m. A Celebration of Life gathering will follow.
Online remembrances may be made at www.burkefuneralhome.com.