Mary Ross
Mary Anne Ross, 77, passed peacefully on October 5, 2025. She was the beloved wife of the late Victor G. Ross and cherished partner of Mark Bremser.
Abundantly blessed, her life was filled with joys and sorrows. She loved her family and her many friends. She had a special place in her heart for all her math students she taught in her thirty-one-year teaching career in the Guilderland School District.
Mary Anne was our families’ true matriarch, holding our extended family together through multiple generations. She was an excellent cook and the Queen of every Italian family gathering. Entertaining brought her much joy. She loved hosting family and friends during holidays and on special occasions; first at her home in Altamont, and later in her Queensbury retrofitted garage, which she converted into an entertainment center affectionately called “La Cucina”. Her celebrations were legendary, filled with warmth, great food, and lasting memories for everyone in attendance.
Mary Anne loved Ogunquit, Maine and spent countless weeks in every season. Whenever it was a crisp and spectacularly blue-sky day, you could hear her say, “It’s a Maine Day”. She shared her love of Maine first with her husband Vic and later with Mark and her extended family and friends who often joined her there.
Mary Anne returned to her roots in Whitehall when she moved to Queensbury and volunteered many years as a tour guide at the Skene Manor where she enjoyed meeting people, keeping local history alive and organizing the Manor’s annual successful basket party fundraiser.
Gardening, swimming, reading, playing games, especially cards and Mahjongg, and traveling were some of her other passions. Mary Anne loved to do the New York Times Spelling Bee where she reigned as Queen Bee for 736 days in a row!
She cherished all her great nieces and nephews from the time they were born. She was fondly referred to as Aunt Mimi.
Mary Anne was predeceased by her parents, John and Esther Ross of Whitehall, NY, her husband Victor G. Ross of Queensbury, her brother John J. Ross, II of Lake George and her sister-in-law Mary Ellen Kuster of Wolschwiller, France.
Mary Anne is survived by her partner, Mark Bremser, her sister, Jean Ross Huntington and her brother Frank (Karen) Ross, her sister-in-law Lesley Ross, her brothers-in-law, Chris Ross, Gerald (Patty) Ross and Dennis (Angella Gibbons) Ross. She leaves behind her nieces and nephews who adored her, Matthew (Amy) Huntington; Caitlyn (Jon) Pease; John Ross III and partner Jen, Mia (Ehsan) Yousefzadeh, James (Emily) Ross, Justin Ross, Elizabeth Ross, Jenny Kuster and her partner Eron, Joel Kuster, Grace (Dorian) Sanders and David Ross. Mary Anne is also survived by Mark’s brothers and their families.
She is survived by many cousins who were part of her extended family and by caring friends. Her legacy is the lasting imprint she made on all the lives she touched. Her warmth, kindness, generosity, fun-loving spirit and love are irreplaceable. She will be dearly missed.
A special thank you to all who supported her through her illness.
At the request of Mary Anne, there will be no services. A Celebration of Life will be held on Sunday, November 2, 2025 from 1pm- 3pm, at the Queensbury Hotel, Glens Falls, NY.
Contributions in her memory may be made to: the Skene Manor, 8 Potter St, Whitehall, NY, 12887, Crandall Library, Glens Falls, NY, 12801 or Vermont Public Radio, 365 Troy Ave. Colchester, VT., 05466.
Arrangements under the care of Singleton Sullivan Potter Funeral Home, 407 Bay Road Queensbury.
For those who wish online condolences can be made to the family by visiting www.sbfuenralhome.com,