Grace Faye Raber

In Binghamton, on August 9, 2025, Grace Faye Raber died at 91. Born in Binghamton on December 10, 1933; Cherokee-descended cooking and payday thrift set the tone of the house. From the start, she treated promises like tools: keep them sharp, do not lend them lightly. She checked loads that had to look inevitable on manifests. A stevedore checker tally board wiped dry kept numbers from becoming tragedies. Colleagues still mention a stevedore checker tally board. She married Walter in 1958. They kept a house that stayed modest when the neighborhood did not. They raised two sons through public schools and ordinary weather. After Walter died in 2018, she kept the routines that still made sense: the walk, the garden, the Sunday call. Neighbors remember the radio low on a Saturday while repairs got done. Mornings were her favorite shift at home. She died in Binghamton, on streets that already knew her pace. The chair by the window still holds the shape of a habit.