Clarence alumna ('72) Eileen Hoefner Knauth passed away on January 20, 2026 after a stay with hospice. Although we did not live that far apart, my last in person memory of her was running into her at a Noco gas station on Main Street in Clarence...funny how some things stick decades later.
From the obit page: Beloved wife of the late John Knauth; loving mother of Colleen C. Springer, Rebecca M. (Sean) Sciabarrasi, Kelly C. Knauth Brown and Kathleen E. (Matt) Whittemore; grandmother of 11 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.
Her daughter's heartfelt words provide a glimpse: "She was brilliant, quick-witted, and could do anything—fix, create, laugh, love with her whole heart. I’ll forever miss our guitar nights, her fingers finding the melody first, her voice wrapping around mine. I’ll miss her stories that made us cry with laughter, and those deep, late-night talks about life, faith, and everything that mattered.
She raised four daughters with fierce, shaping love, teaching us to sing before we could talk, filling our home with music that still lives in me. She worked hard, danced till dawn, and in her sixties, built two huge gardens in scorching heat—hands in the dirt, joy in her soul."
Rest in peace.
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