Kenneth B. Hummel

STUYVESANT Kenneth B. Hummel, 56, a 54 year resident of Stuyvesant, died Tuesday, August 29, 2006 at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson. Born in Hudson, N.Y., September 6, 1949, he was the son of the late Raymond Hummel and Evelyn (Bratton) Hummel who resides in Valatie. Ken was a graduate of Ichabod Crane High School and SUNY Cobleskill and was a self employed builder and carpenter in the area for 23 years. He was a three year member of the Stuyvesant Town Board of which he was elected to in 2003, and was the Stuyvesant Assessor for 20 years, 14 years as the chairman of the Stuyvesant Board of Assessors. Ken was a life member of the Stuyvesant Fire Co. #1 and vice president for 22 years, a Stuyvesant trustee of the Kinderhook Memorial Library, a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Stuyvesant, the Stuyvesant Town Hall Building Committee and a member and past commodore of the Hook Boat Club in Stuyvesant. He was also board chairman of the Stuyvesant Railroad Station Restoration Committee. Ken loved his family and friends and enjoyed building, boating, golf, cars, trucks, mowing his lawn and life in Stuyvesant, the Center of the Universe in his words. Besides his mother, he is survived by his wife Karen (Tomascosky) Hummel; two daughters, Meredith Downs of Coxsackie, N.Y. and Amanda Hummel of Claverack, N.Y.; one brother, Richard Hummel of Syracuse, N.Y.; a granddaughter, Hazel Downs; two nieces, two nephews. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1:00 p.m. from St. John's Lutheran Church, Route 26A, Stuyvesant. Interment will be in Firwood Cemetery, Stuyvesant. Relatives and friends may call Friday from 4-8 p.m. at the Raymond E. Bond Funeral Home, Rt. 9, Valatie, N.Y. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Ken's memory may be made to either the Stuyvesant Fire Co. or the Valatie Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 242 Valatie, NY 12184.