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 Doris "Dee" Herbrandson
July 09, 2006
Doris "Dee" Herbrandson, 86, of 214 Forts Ferry Road, Latham, N.Y., died Sunday, July 9, at Kimball Farms in Lenox, where she had lived for many years.
Born in Everett on May 5, 1920, daughter of Harry and Dorcas Crowell Hamilton, she attended schools there.
Mrs. Herbrandson was employed as the periodicals librarian at Union College for 18 years. She was also a freelance writer for the Union College Publications Department, and wrote a weekly column in the Schenectady Gazette on Jackson's Garden.
Previously, she was a pianist, organist, choir director and musical arranger for various Boston churches, and at one time she was secretary for the president of C.C. Brichard Company in Boston.
She also wrote many small booklets on historical details and nature, including "Wildflowers Around Ann Lee Pond," and "Shaker Herbs and Their Medicinal Uses," which she also illustrated.
She was a member of First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany and Schenectady, N.Y., and Pittsfield. She was a founder of the Rensselaer County Junior Museum, an organizer and coordinator of the Symphony Concerts for the Troy (N.Y.) Schools, chairperson for the Schenectady Symphony Scholarships, treasurer of the Women's League of the Schenectady Symphony, president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Women's Club, president of the Gardeners Workshop of Schenectady and Garden Club of Schenectady, board member and secretary of the Historical Society of the Town of Colonie, N.Y., board member of Troy Chromatics and the Junior League of Schenectady, and active in PEO.
She was an active member of the Colonie Art League for many years, where she painted, showed and sold her watercolor paintings.
She and her husband, the late Harry F. Herbrandson, were married on Oct. 27, 1946. They moved to Schenectady and then Troy, where Mr. Herbrandson was a professor of organic chemistry at RPI for many years. They later lived in Niskayuna, N.Y., and then Latham, N.Y.
She leaves two daughters, Patricia Yonemura of Minneapolis, Minn., and Karen Kast of Niskayuna; a son, Carl Herbrandson of Roseville, Minn; a sister, Gracie Straw of Silver Spring, Md.; 10 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- A memorial service for Doris Herbrandson, who died Sunday, July 9, 2006, will be held at 2 p.m. on Aug. 26 at First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany, 405 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12206.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial contributions may be made to your local hospice. She was predeceased by her sister, Vivian "Penny" White of Texas.
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