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Joanna Pryde

   Posted Wed August 08, 2012

I was so sorry to hear of Walt''''s passing. He was a good man and always a good friend. I have lots of great memories of him at the farm. He will be missed. My prayers are with you, Dot, and with all of you. Deepest Sympathy, Jo

Connie Mancari

   Posted Wed August 08, 2012

Mike and I are so very sorry to hear of Walt's passing. We will miss him terribly, just as you all will. May the Lord bless you all at this time and give you comfort.

Love,
Connie & Mike

The Harry Cole Family

   Posted Wed August 08, 2012

Dottie & family,
You are in our thoughts & prayers at this difficult time.
Our deepest sympathies are with all of you.

Rose Barbaglia

   Posted Wed August 08, 2012

So sorry for your loss. If not for FB I would not have known.
Many memories of the White Cross Farm.

Thoughts are with all of you.

Rose

Daniel Cunningham

   Posted Wed August 08, 2012

I''ll miss, but never forget my "Uncky Walt", probably the most patient person I have ever met. Around 1954 I started a journey and some of the best days of my life on the fender of Uncky Walts Allis Chalmers WD. From that fender I learned to love farming, learned about life, hard work, dedication and Brown Swiss cows. Walt helped me build my first race car in the garage after milking at night. He loved all of us kids and was better than any teacher we ever had. I will miss him forever. I love you Aunt Deed and Janet, we have many wonderful stories to tell.

Robin and Kevin Reynolds

   Posted Wed August 08, 2012

Dot, so very sorry to hear of Walt''''''''''''''''s passing. You and your family are in our thoughts and prayers.

Beverly Markle

   Posted Thu August 09, 2012

Dot and family,
So sorry to hear about Walt. He was such a wonderful man. My prayers are with all of you.

Sharon Brightman

   Posted Thu August 09, 2012

Dear Dottie,
So sorry to learn of your loss. May the good Lord give you peace and comfort in this stressful time and in the future.

Mark Schmid

   Posted Fri August 10, 2012

So sorry to hear of your loss. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

Ellen Goodwater

   Posted Sat August 11, 2012

I spent the first 25 years of my life on Pompey Hill in my parents home. I remember them speaking highly of “good” neighbors. Thirty three years ago my partner then, my husband now had the good fortune to make a home next door to Walter & Dorothy Ammann and their landmark The White Cross Farm. In 1979 Walt & Dorothy were newly weds and lived in Dot’s home. We were homesteaders living in the house next door, trying to figure out how to make our place our own.

Over the next 33 years our relationship evolved from being the folks next door to being neighbors to one another…… Good neighbors. The kind that my parents spoke highly about. We have shared a great deal over the years as good neighbors.

On the farm, there have been lessons….. births of animals of course…. special births of Walt & Dot’s grandchildren….and of my own children. Their have been many, many stories shared between us…..of Walt & his family as immigrants and as farmers….and as would be travelers. Mark & I witnessed barn dances, hay rides, planting, harvesting , coming and going of farm hands with whom Walt shared his hard work ethic and Dot shared her tasty cooking. Walt conveyed his value of tools and equipment well cared for and in good working order…..as well as his pride in keeping his farm in neat order. Over the years our neighbors lawn has been filled with handsome men in Leiderhausen and women sharing their Swiss heritage as the White Cross was the place for many a Swiss picnic. So many great memories with our neighbors- family weddings, graduations, birthdays…lots of them!

We have shared much beyond the essentials of food & water…. flowers, a rototiller, a garden, a snow blower, love of dogs & cats…..a few hands of cards and best of all we shared smiles about the drifts of fallen leaves the wind carried from his maple trees each autumn and laid in our lawn.

Walt and my dad were both farmers. Walt’s birthday was February 13th, so was my Dad’s. Walt was not only a good neighbor, he was a second father to me. He knew it. We spoke of it. He reinforced the seasons and what they bring- the wind, the rain, the snow and the sun. You need it all. Walt reinforced to me in my second twenty five years what my own father had taught to me in my first twenty….. the importance of good friends and family and self reliance. I am grateful for so much.

Over the years we have come to know not only each others joys but each others families’ sorrows…..and it is at this time I look into my heart and see that the reasons for my tears are too many to recount to you all.

I do know that I am sorrowful today and that my tears are for my good neighbor who has passed. In truth, the tears that I weep are for that which has been my good fortune in knowing Walt and the delight that was shared with my good neighbor.

Walt, you and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. Ellen

Peter & Michele Henry

   Posted Tue August 14, 2012

There are so few farmers around that our "neighbors" include White Cross Farm and Walt. We will miss him. Our deepest sympathies to all of the family.
Michele & Peter

Pam from Manlius Post Office

   Posted Mon August 20, 2012

Dorothy Ammann and Family,

Very sorry to hear of your loss. I will miss seeing him on his tractor and at the mailbox.

cory and tim hopkins

   Posted Tue September 24, 2013

me and tim are very sorry to hear of walts death. Tim will always remember the good times he had with him doing the farm work and the jokes they said together and how walt would tell tim some things in swiz germany. I and tim will remember in how he was so nice to the both of us in the times we had no father. We will miss him deeply and he will always be in our hearts and our thoughts.Aging we are sorry to hear of his death and your lost. Love cory and tim hopkins.

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