Sunday, May 2, 2021 - 6:08 pm
Captain Edward G. Pflugheber, 89, of 23656 Ackerman Rd, Dexter passed away on May 1, 2021 at home, surrounded by family. Calling hours will be held from 12 - 2 p.m. Friday, May 7, 2021 at Johnson Funeral Home, Dexter, NY. A short service will be held at the funeral home following calling hours. Burial with full military honors will be at Sacket’s Harbor Military cemetery immediately after.
Ed was born on July 27, 1931 in Wanakena, NY, son of Edward and Fern (Hubbard) Pflugheber. He graduated from Philadelphia, NY High School in 1948. He graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1952, where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity. He married his college sweetheart, the love of his life, Joan Hansen. He entered the US Navy as an officer candidate at Newport Rhode Island, where he received his commission as Ensign. He was in active duty for three and a half years as an engineering officer on the destroyer U.S.S. Hunt. He saw military action
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WATERTOWN â The Dry Hill Ski Area is enjoying a stretch of excellent conditions and the slopes are busy with skiers, snowboarders and tubers in this, its 60th year.
The facility has had its ups and downs with issues like the weather and ownership in the six decades since skiers first took to its slopes, but it has maintained a determination to survive and to remain a local treasure, if only because of it being a novelty â a ski center in the back yard, a brief leap, from a metropolitan area.
âI donât think people realize that there arenât too many communities that have skiing 15, 20, 30 minutes away,â said Dry Hill Ski Area owner Timothy L. McAtee. âAnd you can go there for three hours and spend $20. Most peopleâs skiing experience is, you wake up at 4 in the morning, you drive for two or three hours, you ski all day, and youâre tired and get back in the car and drive two or three hours. Thatâs what a lot of people put up with to be
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