SARATOGA SPRINGS —Marjorie Elaine Senecal-McGourty of Prestwick Chase joined the love of her life, her late husband, Emmett L. McGourty on, November 17, 2022. She was ninety. 

Born in Saratoga Springs on January 26, 1932, she was the second daughter of the late Dewey C. and Madeline L. (Ovitt) Senecal Sr. Margie, known to her many nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren as “Aunt Margie,” she attended Saratoga Springs High School, where she was a member of the class of 1950. Margie, while in High School and for some years after, worked as a salesperson at the Fashion Shop on Broadway in Saratoga Springs, where she further developed her “Brand” and became a “Fashionista,” decades before those terms came into vogue. She then served as Executive Secretary to the Athletic Director of Skidmore College for several years. She moved with her husband to Schenectady and became Executive Secretary to the Athletic Director of Union College, before becoming Business Manager of the new Achilles Rink at Union College under Ned Harkness. Subsequently Margie served as Executive Secretary in the Patent & Legal Department at the GE, R&D Center in Niskayuna before retiring. 

In addition to her parents, Margie was predeceased by her husband and love of her life, Emmett L. McGourty, her sister, Leona M. Senecal-Rossi and her brother Richard H. Senecal. Her niece Patricia Rossi-Farone, and nephews: Nicholas Rossi, Jr., Robert Rossi, and Thomas Senecal.

Survivors include her older brother, Dewey C. Senecal, Sr., of Myrtle Beach, SC, her younger brother Wayne T. Senecal, (Susan), of Saratoga Springs; nieces: Cathy Rossi-King, (Kevin), of Syracuse, Danielle S. Senecal of Tucson, AZ, Michelle-Lee Senecal, (Jonathan) of North Tonawanda, Tina Senecal of Greenfield, Susie Senecal-Hotte of Springhill, FL; nephews: Michael Rossi (Marta), and Timothy Rossi, (Diane), both of Saratoga Springs, Dewey C. Senecal, Jr., (Rochelle) Robert Senecal, (Kathleen), both of Spring Hill, FL; and her many loving grand & great-grand-nieces, and grand & great-grand-nephews. 

At Margie’s instructions, funeral services were private at the William J. Burke & Sons/Bussing & Cunniff, Inc., Funeral Homes, 628 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs. 

Burial was celebrated privately on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, in the plot with her husband, Emmett at St. Peter’s Cemetery, West Avenue, Saratoga Springs.

Online remembrances may be made at burkefuneralhome.com 

Saratoga Springs — Paul Hermann Schrade was born December 17, 1924, in Saratoga Springs to William and Florence Schrade. He died peacefully at his home in Los Angeles on November 9. He was 97 years old.

Paul moved to Los Angeles in the late 1940’s and started work at North American Aircraft company He became an activist in the United Auto Workers and soon won election as president of his local union. In the mid-1950’s, Paul moved to Detroit as assistant to UAW President, Walter Reuther. In 1962 he became Western Regional Director of the UAW. 

A confidant of then Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Paul was one of five people shot on the night of the Senator’s assassination following Kennedy’s 1968 California Democratic Presidential primary victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Paul was seriously wounded but survived.

Dedicating himself to the social justice ideals and the memory of RFK, Paul was a central part of a decade-long campaign to build a school honoring Kennedy on the site of the former Ambassador Hotel. The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex, serving 4,000 students, opened on the site in 2010.The School Library is named in Paul’s honor.

Paul is survived by his sister Louise (Weezie) Schrade Stone Duff, a resident of Audubon, PA. Several nieces and nephews survive as well.

A service of remembrance for Paul will take place in the Spring at the Greenridge Cemetery in Saratoga Springs.