Arlette Richardson

Troy- Arlette Richardson, 81, passed away on October 3, 2006, after a long illness. She was born on July 25, 1925, in Paris, France, one of two children in the Moyers family. Arlette was in a Nazi concentration camp with her mother during WWII. Her mother, Louise Moyers was a spy for the French resistance. The two managed to escape from their captors before the war ended. Arlette came to the United States in 1946 and married the late Norman Newman Nelson. She lived in Tennessee before moving to New York City in 1947, where her only child, Patricia was born in May of 1947. She moved to Long Island in the Mid 60's where she survived a serious apartment fire in the early 70's. Arlette married Stuart Richardson of Babylon, Long Island in 1990 and moved to Troy a couple of years after Stuart's death in 1988.
Arlette is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Patricia and Kurt Hemmerich of Averill Park, and her two grandchildren, Naomi Sinclair of Averill Park and Tamar Knapp of Selkirk. Despite a severe illness, she was able to enjoy some of the happiest moments of her life with her great-grandson, Emerson, during the last few months of her life.
Funeral services will be held at the Albany Church of Christ at Russell Road on a date and time to be announced. Memorial contributions may be made to the Community Hospice of Rensselaer, 295 Valley View Blvd., Rensselaer, NY 12144, in memory of Arlette Richardson. Expressions of sympathy may be made at www.newcomerfamily.com.