Robert V. Baldwin

LOUDONVILLE Robert V. Baldwin passed away Friday, October 8, 2004 at Albany Memorial Hospital at age 85. Bob/Buddy lived in Albany and Rensselaer in his early years and in Loudonville for the past 56 years. He was predeceased by his loving wife of 60 years, Irene Fish Baldwin. He was a World War II Army veteran and participated in the second wave assault on Omaha Beach, Normandy. Mr. Baldwin worked as a folding machine operator at Williams Press for over 30 years and as a custodian at the Colonie Town Hall for 10 years. Bob was a very devoted husband and father and loved animals. He leaves two daughters, Shari (Paul) Niedbalec and Ginnie (Stephen) Moore; two grandchildren, Michaela and Stephen Moore. He was predeceased by his sisters, Charlene Williams and Joan Mara; and a brother, Bill Rochford. He also leaves behind several nieces and nephews including Robert Williams, Maren Jacobs, George Williams, Karen Brown, Cheryl Farthing, Valerie Abarca, Joseph Mara, Joan Navedo, Katherine LaVigne, Xavier (Corky) Mara, Charlene Frode-Hansen, Carol Brazinski, Joyce Martucci, Susan Peters and Carol Quatrocci. Also adopted family, Andrew Dziadosz and his family, and Peter, Helena and Isabella Cowan. Special friends include Evelyn Lewis, Charles and Thaisa Beach, Marie Griffen, Sister Catherine Kelly, Edna Davis and Bob (his mailman). Special thanks to the Memorial Hospital Congestive Heart Failure Program (particularly nurses, Jill, Martha and Mary Ellen) and the nurses on the fourth, fifth and sixth floors, especially Liz and Jeff, the emergency room and Colonie Paramedics. Funeral services will be held 10:15 a.m. Wednesday from the Daniel Keenan Funeral Home, 490 Delaware Ave., thence to St. Pius X Church, 23 Crumitie Rd., Loudonville where a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11:00 a.m. Friends and relatives are invited and may also call at the funeral home on Tuesday from 6-8:30 p.m. Interment will follow the Mass in Memory's Garden Cemetery, Colonie. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to AnimaLovers, P.O. Box 6426, Albany, NY 12202.