Lillian Marie Ernst

MALTA — Lillian Marie Ernst, residing at The Home of the Good Shepard in Malta, passed away peacefully on Friday, October 28, 2016. She was 91 years old. Born on April 15, 1925, in Troy, she was the daughter of the late Robert Martin Alexander Kissinger and Anna Grace Morris Kissinger. Mrs. Ernst married her husband George H. Ernst on September 9, 1945. Lillian worked as a bookkeeper for many years for her husband’s business, Ernst Bros, of Saratoga Springs. Prior to that Mrs. Ernst had also served as the Town Clerk for Wilton in the 50’s and 60’s. She and her husband were longtime “snowbirds,” leaving the frosty northeast for several months each winter, to stay in their home in Green Valley, AZ. They moved to Green Valley permanently in 2001 and lived there until her husband George passed away in August of 2011. Lillian moved back to the Saratoga County area to be closer to her family in 2013. In Arizona, Mrs. Ernst was a proud member of the Women’s’ Investment Club of Tucson. In her leisure, she enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and loved to travel with her husband. Lillian is predeceased by her husband George as well as a younger brother, John (Jack) Kissinger. Two other brothers survive her, brother Paul of Cohoes, and brother Robert who has long resided in California. Survivors also include a son, Frederick M. Ernst and his wife Nancy Sullivan of Golden, CO and a daughter, Darlene M. Hancox and her husband Michael of Ballston Lake. She is also survived by six grandchildren, Frederick, Jason, Joshua, Nathan, Jennifer and Sara, as well as 12 great-grandchildren living in NY, VA, CO and AZ, and her close friend, Millie Musson of Arizona. Friends and family gathered to remember her on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at the Tunison Funeral Home in Saratoga Springs. A funeral service was held at the funeral home. Burial was held at the Gerald BH Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery in Schuylerville where she was buried alongside her husband, George. Memorial donations can be made to The 1717 Central Ave. Albany, NY 12205. Online remembrances can be made at www.tunisonfuneralhome.com