July 19, 2008  

GLENFIELD, N.Y.  —  Norma J. Kuntz, 79, formerly of Pine Grove Road, died Friday evening, July 18, at Lewis County Residential Healthcare Facility where she has resided since April 18. 

A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 22, at Beaches Bridge Cemetery with Father Ed Murphy, Vicar of Shared  Episcopal Ministry East, Lowville, officiating. A gathering will follow at the Lowville VFW Post #6912. There will be no calling hours. Arrangements are with Iseneker Funeral Home, Inc., Lowville. 

Contributions may be made to Lewis County Memorial Post #6912 Veteran’s of Foreign Wars, 7752 West State St., Lowville, NY 13367.

Born Nov. 30, 1928, in North Syracuse, a daughter of Richard and Winifred Spooner Townsend, she attended North Syracuse High School.  

She married Herbert J. Kimpland. The marriage ended in divorce. 

She married George A. Kuntz on May 17, 1954, in Florida. The couple lived in Syracuse while Mr. Kuntz worked for General Electric, prior to moving to Watson, where the couple bought a small dairy farm on the Wetmore Road. Mrs. Kuntz worked on the dairy farm and drove school bus for Lowville Free Academy.  

The couple owned and operated the Hitching Post in Watson for eight and a half years, after which Mrs. Kuntz worked for Kraft foods in Lowville for nine years. Mrs. Kuntz left her position with Kraft to live in Florida with her husband, who worked construction for eight years while they lived there. The couple returned to the town of Watson, and spent six months during the winter in their motor home near Orlando, Fla. until 2007. She had been in failing health for the past year. 

Mrs. Kuntz was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church, Lowville, and Lewis County Memorial Post #6912 Ladies Auxiliary.  

She enjoyed traveling, camping, and spending time with her family.

Surviving are her husband of 54 years, George A.; a daughter from her first marriage, and her husband, Janet and John Widrick, Glenfield; a daughter and her husband, Christine and Todd Lyndaker, Croghan; a daughter-in-law, Val Kuntz, Glenfield; a sister and her husband, Anita and Rolland Kimpland, North Syracuse; 10 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.  

She was predeceased by a son, George R. Kuntz, who died Jan. 9, 2004, and a sister, Winifred Blanden. 

Information provided by Iseneker Funeral Home, Inc. of Lowville and Newzjunky, Watertown, N.Y.