Former Calverton resident Grace E. Gotimer of Bethlehem, Pa., died peacefully on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. She was 84 years young.
Born on June 16, 1936, in Calverton, N.Y., she was the daughter of Harry and Charlotte Edwards of Edwards Avenue. When Grace wasn’t in school, she assisted her father, Harry, on their farm, growing cauliflower and planting potatoes. She shared many of her stories of these times with her grandchildren. Grace especially enjoyed telling the story of her father chasing her in the yard with a garter snake.
During Grace’s childhood, she and her family went to Maspeth to have Sunday night dinner for her cousins, aunts, uncles and grandpa. She would always get stuck at the kids’ table and always retold how much she hated it! Grace was proud of her Scottish and Irish heritage and worked with her cousin Cynthia to create family reunions.