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Ascold Kalme Obituary
Ascold was born in Estonia on March 5, 1924. When political unrest and war with Russia came to his homeland, he fled to Finland and served in the Finnish army against Russia. He then moved to Sweden and worked in a steel factory. Seeking political freedom, Ascold and a small group of friends set sail in a small boat on a precarious voyage to America. With the help of fellow Estonians and his wife, he learned English and dairying. He continued as a dairy farmer in Easton.
It was with great pride that he earned and was granted United States citizenship. With the confidence that this citizenship gave him, he proudly traveled to his native and now independent Estonia to visit his surviving sisters and their families. On the same trip, he and his wife visited their daughter, Anna, in Spain at the time of the birth of a granddaughter.
Ascold is survived by his wife and caregiver, Harriet Bapp Kalme and their family: Neeme and his daughters ,Ashlee, Chelsee and Kaylee of Easton; Anna and her daughters, Sabrina and Natalia in Spain; Harvey and his son, Andrew, of Mechanicville; and Neasa in Indiana. Not having birth family in America, Harriet's family became his, so he is survived by her sister, Ruth Creedan and her husband, of Florida; and her brothers, Robert of Glens Falls, Donald and his wife, Peggy, Richard and his wife, Sharon, Peter and his wife, Sylvia and several nieces and nephews in Queensbury.
Calling hours will be on Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m. at Flynn Bros., Inc. Funeral Home, 80 Main St., Greenwich, followed by a graveside service at Greenwich Cemetery, with Jean Malone, Washington County Hospice counselor.
Memorials in Mr. Kalme's name may be directed to the Easton Greenwich Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 84, Greenwich, NY 12834 or to Washington County Hospice, 415 Lower Main St., Hudson Falls, NY 12839.
Online remembrances may be sent to www.flynnbrosinc.com.
To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.
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Byron Stevenson
July 13, 2007
Hi Harriet, sorry to hear about your husband, God Bless You and your family.
Byron and Toni Stevenson
Blue Eye Missouri
Pat and Phil StClair
July 13, 2007
We were so sorry to hear of Ascold passing. He was a great person and surely will be missed by all. His obituary was beautiful written. Even though we are in Florida, we wil be at his wake spirtually.
Pat and Phil StClair
Jack Creeden
July 13, 2007
Here's to a great Brother-in-Law and a Great Friend........
Sincerely, Jack & Ruthie Creeden
Stuart, Florida
JANE COOK
July 12, 2007
HARRIETT AND FAMILY MY DEEPEST SYMPATHY TO YOU ALL .........YOU USE TO KNOW ME WHEN YOU HAD YOUR STORE IN SCHUYLERVILLE AS JANE MANNING MONICA AND ANNIE ARE MY DAUGHTERS
Sylvia O'Dell
July 12, 2007
I extend my deepest sympathy to everyone
sincerely,
Sylvia Stoddard O'Dell
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