A service to celebrate her life will be held on Saturday, October 12, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. at First Baptist Church, 315 W. Michigan Ave. Kalamazoo. She will be interred at Sixty Cemetery in Oneida, County, NY. Memorials may be made to Kalamazoo College Lester Start Fund; the Professor Lester and Mrs. Clarice Start Scholarship at Utica College, Utica, NY; Remsen Steuben Historical Society, Remsen, NY (Stone Meeting House in memo line); or First Baptist Church of Kalamazoo, c/o the funeral home.