Claudia Tenney: “This past October, the Mohawk Valley lost a local businessman, leader, and a dear friend when Bill Chanatry, owner of…”

“This past October, the Mohawk Valley lost a local businessman, leader, and a dear friend when Bill Chanatry, owner of Chanatry's Hometown Market in Utica, New York, passed away at the age of 89. Bill was raised in Utica and graduated from the highly acclaimed Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute--many of you known as RPI--and enjoyed a 40-year career as an engineer, eventually serving in the Army Corps of Engineers in Japan during the Korean war; and later he joined General Electric Aerospace Electronics Division, where he served as a project manager for the U.S. Navy E-2C Surveillance Radar Team in Utica, New York. Chanatry's, the family grocery store, was founded in 1912 by Bill's father and his two uncles. In 1991, Bill eventually retired from General Electric, GE, and became the president of Chanatry's and oversaw a significant expansion and innovation, using his unique skills in engineering to really bring Chanatry's into the forefront and to maintain it as a family, home-owned business catering to the needs of families in our community. But along with all of these lifelong achievements that Bill had, Bill's legacy is better defined by his terrific family: his loving wife, Janet; five children, Ameena, Joanne, Michael, Bob, and Mark; and, of course, all of their children, grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren as well.…”