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Frederick Charles Amon

July 10, 1936 ~ May 12, 2018 (age 81) 81 Years Old
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Message from Margaret Gankofskie
June 17, 2018 8:58 PM
I was so sorry to hear of fred''s passing....he would come to my home and take away all my old chickens when I replaced them with new younger ones....we did this for many years. I always enjoyed seeing him and listening to his many farm stories. He called me his " chicken lady ". Rest in peace, fred.
Message from D.F.
May 21, 2018 7:09 AM
I am so sorry for your loss. May you be comforted by the loving words at Psalms 34:18.
Message from Chris Amon (Beverly, and Kiddos)
May 18, 2018 8:44 AM
We won't see good-by as we all know we'll meet again.. just like the caterpillar turns into a beautiful butterfly.
Thanks for all the wonderful memories & being the trickster that you are.
See you later Uncle Fred - we love you!
Message from Pati (Kirk) Caminiti
May 16, 2018 9:45 PM
Holly , your a wonderful daughter , mother , wife and friend I feel so blessed that our paths crossed . . Your Father was an amazing man it showed through you
Peace and love
Hope and Prayers
Message from Ann and Marie Pedro
May 16, 2018 3:43 PM
Ellie and Holly and Family,
Please accept our deepest sympathy. Fred was a very kind and friendly man. He was always very nice to speak with. He was a dear friend to my late father John and they had known each other for many years. You and your family are in our thoughts and prayers.
Ann and Marie (Mrs. John) Pedro
Message from Pauline Fryer{Flegert
May 16, 2018 9:34 AM
So sorry for your loss.
Message from Cheri Adams Majnich
May 16, 2018 9:23 AM
Robin, Holly and family

My thoughts are with you in this sad time. He will always be in your heart.

Cheri
Message from William Brainard
May 15, 2018 7:12 PM
I didn' t know Fred personally but probably saw him when we used to take Holstein bull calves to the North Franklin Cattle Commission owned by Jimmy Kahn and later his daughter, Carol Kahn Beckwith. My mother dispersed our 40 cattle of Holstein, Ashyire, Guernsey and Jersey cows and heifers after the Ice Storm Felix in 1973 to Sam Berkowitz who ran the auction between Jim Kahn and his daughter Carol. After our dispersal, Sam took the farmers money including the almost $20,000 Mother released from the sale and upsconded with it to South America. It would take Mom years to get the money back but the courts finally got most of the cash Sam sold when he was returned to the states. Sammy then started an auction business in Columbia and lived life as if nothing had happened. We never knew if he served jail time but many farmers boycotted the man's new auction business that he began in 1981 at his home on Chestnut Hill in Columbia. (Note: this adeneum of Mr. Berkowitz was inserted by me. It has nothing to do with my story with Carol Beckwith and her dad who too were victims of Sam Berkowitz greed. One couldn't stay mad too long at Sam however with his happy go lucky deameanor; he even called Mom one evening in the mid 1980's to apologize for stealing her money. Sam always drove a flashy car, either a Lincoln, Caddy or Pontiac. He was a big man, nearly 400 pounds with jet black hair all his days who never married and always in the deal. He was a winner of the Young Connecticut Dairy Farmers award in 1954 and in later years developed the Berkowitz land in Columbia on art. 87 building beautiful expensive homes in his development known as Samuel Hill. We last saw Sam at Harry's Place in Colchester about 2000 grabbing a bite (whole belly clams) in his new Lincoln. I was saddened to hear of his death because when my younger brother and I were wee little kids he always had a pocket full of Snicker bars for him. It was sad he never married and had kids; he would have made a wonderful husband and father. In the late 1940s Sam had polio on his right arm which never healed right. It was one of his crosses to bare. His mother was shot to death in the 1930s over debts his dad Archie accumulated and never repaid. Sam was young when it occurred and must have scarred him terribly. Despite his sticky fingers with cattlemens money, Sam was a good man. I miss him as I do Carol and JIm Kahn. (Now we return to Mrs. Beckwith's story. Although Sam had Bob Hendrickson as auctioneer when he ran the COMMISION SALES in North Franklin. They had auctioneer Bob Hendrickson whose wife and three daughters attended the auction every Wednesday never missing one. His wife and daughters were beautiful and polite. Many a time my Mother sat with them bidding on dairy cows or a pony for us when Bobby and I were kids. I always loved auctions of any kind and my brother Tom had one at our home, Melody Farm in South Coventry in 1981 cleaning out antiques he bought since working for the Stulas, I ran the snack bar with Mom in the Agway Barn, Dad was auctioneer, sister in law Marian did the books and various friends and cousins "ran" the articles. Buyers had paper plates for bidding cards and we used hay bales for seating. Tom had another very successful auction in 1990 at Tom and Mercedes Welles Coventry Flea Market building on Coventry Lake. I too, had the snack bar that day and made good money. Tom served as administrator and bank manager from 1973-79 at their nursing facility Stula Pavillion in Danielson, Ct. (This is another glitch which skipped the article around. Sorry for the inconvenience.).
Message from Ron and Charlene Pepin
May 15, 2018 6:45 PM
Ron and I are very sorry to ready of Fred's passing. Ron played softball with Fred when he pitched for the Iron Horse team. We have fond memories of the years we spent at the park with Fred (and Al) and are proud to have known him. To Al and Louise and the rest of Fred's family, we send you our heartfelt sympathy. Ron and Charlene
Message from Paul Cichon
May 15, 2018 3:51 PM
Louise and family, thinking of you at this difficult time.
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