Information about Janet Franklin's service

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  1. 1. New as of Jan 4
    1. 1.1 Parking is available here:
    2. 1.2 Obituary
  2. 2. Summary
  3. 3. Directions
  4. 4. Donations
  5. 5. Hotel
  6. 6. For more info

Janet and Randolph Franklin

1.  New as of Jan 4

1.1  Parking is available here:

  1. At Westminister Presbyterian on State St across from Emmanuel Baptist Church.
  2. At the Fort Orange Club on Washington St. From their parking lot, with your back to Washington St, the back door to the church is at 2 o'clock.
  3. For family members, only please, on State St in front of the church. The police will post notices.
  4. Please do not park in the lot directly behind the church, since the owner needs it on Saturday. (He graciously lets us use it on Sundays.)

1.2  Obituary

Albany Times Union obituary, Jan 3 and 5.

2.  Summary

There will be a memorial service for my wife Janet on Sat Jan 6

2-4 pm visitation
4 pm service
5 pm reception and dinner (lasagna)

The location is

Emmanuel Baptist Church (EBC)
275 State St
Albany, NY 12210
(518) 465-5161

Pictures of Janet and written tributes, for display or reading aloud on Saturday, are welcome.

3.  Directions

Directions to EBC (including parking) will be posted here:

http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/Homepages/wrf/pmwiki/Main/EmmanuelBaptistChurch

EBC is a little tricky to get to. State St and most other neighborhood streets are one-way. Washington St is two-way. Every mapping program I tried (Google, Yahoo, Mapquest) erroneously locates the church in the wrong block.


Correct map of EBC

Aerial photo of EBC

Since there is little parking on State St at any time of day or night, we are arranging to use ample adjacent parking; info will be posted here when finalized. EBC has a small parking lot to the right, with space for about 5 small cars.

4.  Donations

Flowers may be sent to the church. Alternately, charitable donations in Janet's memory may be made to

Focus Interfaith Food Pantry, c/o Emmanuel Baptist Church.

5.  Hotel

For people traveling in from out of town: Janet's friend and travel agent Elana Glinert recommends the Hampton Inn on Wolf Roadm with rates from $72.00-$79.00 per night including a very nice continental breakfast in the morning. She has sent groups to this hotel before and they were pleased. It is a great price!!

Those who need rooms should either either email her at

t r a v e l b y e l a n a AT h o t m a i l . c o m

or call her directly at 1 800-99ELANA or 1-518-271-6863 with the names of the travelers, what kind of room they desire, nonsmoking, smoking, 1 or 2 beds, the nights they would like the reservation for and a credit card and expiration date to guarantee the reservation. She will email the reservation to the traveler so it will be easy at checkin.

6.  For more info

Randolph Franklin
(518) 482 - 8544
f r a n k w r AT r p i . e d u