Hope Catherine Prior 90 a long time resident of Ghent died Monday at Whittier Nursing Home Ghent, Mrs. Prior born March 3,1922 in Ogdensburg, N.Y is the daughter of the late Ira and Helen (Darrow) Kring. She graduated from Hudson High School and Mildred Elley. In 1945 she married her husband the late Francis Prior (2000). She had lived in the Chatham,East Chatham area before moving to Ghent in 1953. Mrs. Prior was a bookkeeper for the Kring Nursing Home in Hudson for many years. A Charter member of the Ladies Auxillary Ghent V.F.W Post # 5933 and Charter and life member of the Ghent Volunteer Fire Dept ladies Auxillary and a member of the Ghent Reformed Church . She enjoyed Camping and will be missed by her friends at the Payn Home. Mrs. Prior is survived by 3 sons David F. Prior of Ghent, Christopher of Chatham, Daniel of Old Chatham. Brother Ralph Kring of Ghent, James Kring of Hernandez, Florida and Sister Elaine Katt of Kiskatom,N.Y. Survived also by 6 Grandchildren and 3 Great Grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Friday 10:00am from the Wenk Funeral Home Chatham with the Reverend Nancy McClure-Long pastor of Ghent Reformed Church officiating. Interment will follow in the Ghent Union Cemetery. Relatives and Friends are respectively invited to call 4 - 7 pm Thursday. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association 440 New Karner Rd. Albany, N.Y. 12205. For online condolences visit wenkfuneralhome.com