Luella Tremper, 92 years young, passed away on June 11, 2024 at the Sunset Adult Care Center, surrounded by her daughters.

Luella was born on August 24, 1931 at home in Fallsburg, NY and spent most of her life there. She later moved to Monticello.

In her early years, Luella worked as a telephone operator in South Fallsburg. When her children started school, Luella worked as a cook at the Fallsburg Central High School and remained there until she retired. She was known for making delicious homemade soups and desserts and students and faculty tried to put in orders ahead of time to make sure they got their share of whatever delicious treat she had made that day.

Luella also worked in the family floral business making beautiful roping, wreaths and grave blankets for Christmas.

Later on in life she worked part-time in Kutsher’s gift shop, “just to keep busy.”

Luella loved to travel. She traveled throughout Europe and the Dominican Republic and spent winters in Florida. One of her favorite things to do was “hop in the car” with her best friend, Virginia DeGraw, sometimes with no destination in mind, but always finding an adventure along the way. Another of her favorite things for her was to spend time with her sister, Shirley Taggart, just sitting on the back porch, enjoying iced tea and spending time just hanging out together and talking.

Luella was known for her sense of fashion. You never saw her without her outfit, shoes, pocketbook and jewelry all matching.

She had a green thumb and could grow beautiful flowers that she lovingly tended to every day.

Luella lived for her family. She was involved in everything that concerned her children and grandchildren, never missing any special occasions or holidays, one Christmas traveling to three different states in one day to spend Christmas with all of her grandchildren. Her family was her life.

Luella will be missed by her loving family: her four daughters – Debra Larsen (Tom), Cindi Alexander (Michael), Susan Tremper and Penny Collins (Dave); her seven grandchildren - Jonathan Burgess (Maria), Kristen Glass (Steven), Halley Hiatt (Andrew), Dylan and Jillian Alexander, Jenna Hiatt and Daniel Collins; and her twelve great-grandchildren: Tremper, Austin and Adelaide Dymond, Amaya, Aidan and Adam Burgess, Maddy and Teddy Glass, Deagen and Finley Alexander, Andrew Kelly and Solei Andrews.

Waiting to greet Luella in Heaven are her husband, Loyd Tremper and her granddaughter Heather Burgess Dymond.

Also leaving behind her sister, Shirley Taggart, her best friend Virginia DeGraw and her wonderful and loving caregiver/friend Patricia Curtis; several nieces and nephews and great-nieces and nephews, and many of her daughter’s and granddaughter’s friends to whom she is “Grandma Luella”.

Visitation will be on Saturday, June 15th from 10am to 12pm at Colonial Memorial Funeral Home, 396 State Route 52, Woodbourne, NY 12788. A funeral service will follow at the funeral home at 12pm, Pastors Penny Collins and Carl Caskey officiating. Burial will follow at Old Falls Cemetery, Route 42, Fallsburg, NY.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations in Luella’s name be made to Hospice of Orange and Sullivan County, 800 Stony Brook Ct., Newburgh, NY 12550.

We would like to thank all of the wonderful, loving staff at the Adult Care Center taking such good care of Luella and for always being there for our family. We were very lucky to have had them in our mom’s life.

Arrangements under the care of Colonial Memorial Funeral Home, for further information call 845-434-7363 or visit www.colonialfamilyfuneralhomes.com.