Toczylowski, Antoinette “Toni” Tucker, Russell Wakeley, MD, Carol Anne

LATHAM — Antoinette “Toni” Toczylowski, of Latham, a journalist who worked at the Times Union for nearly four decades, died June 16, 2024, at St. Peter’s Hospital after a long illness. She was 69.

Toni was a newspaper journalist from the old school. Always curious, occasionally cynical, she observed the world around her and helped produce interesting and entertaining “copy,” as news stories are called, for readers.

Originally from Philadelphia, Toni graduated from Temple University with a journalism degree in 1977. After a stint with The Philadelphia Inquirer, she was hired by the Times Union in 1985. Like many young reporters, Toni’s first beat was “night cops,” an overnight shift in which she scoured police blotters throughout the region for news reports. She later covered Rensselaer County, the City of Rensselaer and North and East Greenbush. She became an editor for the copy desk and wrote book reviews and entertainment listings until her retirement in 2019. In 2005, she penned a Sunday essay about the combat death of her cousin’s son in Iraq.

Reporters and editors remember Toni for her commitment to clear and concise writing, helping polish reporters’ first drafts into accurate and readable into accurate and readable accounts of the people and events in the Capital

Region. She had a hand in editing the Times Union award-winning investigative stories on the NXIVM cult and on special sections that ranged from local teen drinking to poverty in

Malawi. Toni also worked on important daily coverage that ranged from the Christopher Porco and Amadou

Diallo trials to Gov. Eliot

Spitzer’s resignation under scandal and state Speaker

Joseph Bruno’s fight against corruption charges. These intricate stories were always considered in safe hands under Toni’s deft editing skills.

Friends and family appreciated Toni’s love of culture, both pop and highbrow, which she expressed with visits to museums, theaters, concert halls and movie houses across the United

States and abroad, especially in her beloved Paris.

She annually attended the

Saratoga Jazz Festival with LOUDONVILLE — Carol her friends and loved going Anne Wakeley, M.D. passed to Tanglewood and SPAC away, Monday June 24, for concerts. 2024, at home after a long

She was also a diehard illness. She is the daughter sports fan for Philadelphia of Eunice Margaret teams, most notably the Wakeley and Robert Gerald Phillies and the Eagles. The Wakeley of Warrensburg, Eagles’ 2018 Super Bowl N.Y. Her death was preceded championship brought her by her parents; her to tears. She was a huge fan brother, Gerald Edward of Jason Kelce, the future Wakeley; several aunts and Hall of Fame center who uncles; and her nephew played 13 years for her Sean Gerald Wakeley. She is beloved “Ig-gles.” survived by Stanley Mudzinski,

But certainly, what endeared her beloved husband Toni to everyone she of fifty years; her beloved met was her kind and generous great nephew, Ulustan Stanley heart as well as her Wakeley; his mother engaging and unassuming Muazzez Wakeley and personality. Toni was one her significant other John of those people who could Boron. Muazzez took care have an interesting conversation of Carol, day and night, with anyone. She for several weeks enabling could be prim and proper her to enter hospice to die one minute, then sassy and at home with friends and sarcastic the next. Her standards family around her. She is for excellence were also survived by sister-inlaw, high, so it’s no wonder that Barbara Wakeley of her idols included Bruce Maricopa, Ariz.; cousin Springsteen, Frank Sinatra, Virginia Raymond of Mel Brooks and Pablo Picasso. North Creek, N.Y.; Glenn She shared a birthday and Nancy Shapiro of with Springsteen and first Longmeadow, Mass., and watched him perform live in family; Jeff and Mary Lea 1974 at the 3,000-seat Tower Raymond of Queensbury, Theater in Upper Darby. N.Y., and family; Rick and His Upper Darby concertsnd

Jennifer Raymond and were legendary. The passing family of Ohio. Carol had of actor James Gandolfini life-long friendships with was a heartbreak for Toni, Katelyn Tsukada, her husband who could quote “Seinfeld” William Holm, and and “The Sopranos” their daughter Mackenzie dialogue verbatim. Holm; Katelyn’s parents

Toni was predeceased by Ken Tsukada and Cindy her father, Kazimierz; her Putorti; Vera Eccarius-kelly mother, Genevieve; and and husband Bill; Alan a sister, Charlotte. She is Auerbach; Judy and Steve survived by her brother, Quinn; Hank and Ellen Casmir; and her sister, Mahnken; Edward Franks, Clementine; and many nieces Md;. Tim and Mim Dunne; and nephews, who called Tony and Dianne Innis; and her Bubbles. Wally and Celia Carpenter;

Funeral arrangements and their respective families. are being handled privately The family also wishes to by her family in Philadelphia. thank cousin Dr. James A celebration of Lavery; friend and mentor her life will be held in the Rich Ostendorf MD, Capital Region on July 6. Alan Auerbach a mentor For details, contact Joyce in almost everything; and Bassett at joyceb10bassett@ Judy Quinn for life-long gmail.com. Memorials in friendship and love. Carol her name can be made to graduated from Chestertown Kelce’s “Be Philly” foundation Central School where at https://bephilly.org she was valedictorian; Cornell University with honors and distinction; and Albany Medical College where she was elected to AOA, the medical honorary. She completed a residency in family medicine at Hunterdon Medical Center in Flemington, N.J., and was board certified by the American College of Emergency Medicine and by the American Board of Family Medicine. Carol was an attending physician in the Emergency Department of Samaritan Hospital for many years and a consultant in the New York State

ALBANY — Russell Tucker, 67, of 400 Hudson Ave., died March 28, 2024. Family and friends please call funeral home for further details. Burial will take place at Oakwood Cemetery. Mcloughlin & Mason Funeral Home 518-235-1722. Visit www. mcloughlinmason.com tant the New Yo State Office of Disability Determination. A service in celebration of Carol’s life will be held on July 2, 2024, at 12 p.m. in the Newtonville United Methodist Church, 568 Loudon Road (corner of Route 9 and Maxwell Road). All are invited to attend and may visit with Carol’s family following the service in the church lounge. Interment will follow in Warrensburg Cemetery, Warrensburg N.Y. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in, Carol’s memory, to the Capital City Rescue Mission at https://give.capitalcityrescuemission.org/ give. For driving directions and to express condolences and sympathy to Carol’s family please visit www. bowenandparkerbros.com