Monthly Archives: December 2012

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Richard James Moore, Sr. – 86

Richard James Moore, Sr. of Lake Street, Stillwater, passed away on Monday, December 10, 2012 at the Wesley Health Care Center.  He was 86.

Born in Stillwater on June 23, 1926, a son of the late William Franklin and S. Elizabeth (Pilling) Moore.  Richard is the husband of the late Shirley Ann Moore.

Richard worked for B & M Railroad as a clerk/dispatcher.  Richard served in the Navy, and is a veteran of World War II and the Korean War. He is a Life Member of American Legion Post #490, Stillwater. Richard held various positions at the Newland - Wood Fire Department. In earlier years he enjoyed bowling, coin collecting and antiquing.

Survivors include seven children, Darlene Messina of Wolfeboro, NH, Karen (John) Jalonski of Waterford, CT, Richard J. Moore, Jr. of Troy, John J. (Peggy) Moore of Broadalbin, Shirley Ann Ahern of Stillwater, William D. Moore of Schaghticoke and Kathleen M. (Paul) Stewart of Stillwater. Also survived by 20 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren as well as 3 great-great grandchildren.

In addition to his wife Shirley, Richard is predeceased by his son Philip as well as his twelve siblings.

Family and friends may call from 4-7pm on Thursday, December 13, 2012 at the Chase-Smith Family Funeral Homes, 729 Hudson Avenue, Stillwater.  His funeral service will be held at 9am on Friday at the funeral home.  Burial with military honors will be in the Stillwater Union Cemetery, Stillwater.

The family would like to thank the staff at 2 Springs at Wesley for their care for Richard.

Memorials may be made to the American Legion Post 490, Stillwater in his memory.

Online remembrances may be made at www.chasesmithfamily.com

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U.S. Marine Corps. Lance Corporal Anthony Joseph Denier-26

 

 

 

MECHANICVILLE – US Marine Corps Lance Corporal Anthony Joseph Denier, 26, was killed in action in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, Dec. 2, 2012, in direct support of War on Terrorism/Operation Enduring Freedom,Afghanistan.

Born in Troy, NY, July 7, 1986, he was son of Mary Denier Morgan of Mechanicville, and Manuel Contreras of Miramar, Fla.

Anthony grew up and was educated in Mechanicville.  Before entering military service, he had been a house and commercial painter.

Early in 2011, Anthony fulfilled his life’s dream, enlisting in the US Marine Corps on March 14th of that year.  His unit was based in Camp Lejeune, NC. Anthony shipped out to Afghanistan on October 26th of this year, as a member of 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines (Regional Combat Team 7, 1st Marine Division Forward) of 2nd Marine Division.

Anthony loved the Marine Corps, and was proud to follow in the military footsteps of many family members.

Survivors in addition to his parents include two sisters: Maria (Bryan) Betts and Amy Denier all of Gloversville, aunts and uncles Patrick (Kathy Retell) Denier of Schaghticoke, John (Marianne) Denier of Mechanicville, Josephine Craft of Stillwater and Ann Denier of Mechanicville, along with nieces, nephews, cousins and many boyhood friends, who called his “Baby D”. He was also predeceased by grandparents Joseph and Cecelia Denier and his uncle Joseph Denier.

Anthony will arrive at Albany International Airport on Monday, Dec. 10th at 11AM.  After the ceremonial welcome, he will be transported to the City ofMechanicville, escorted by a host of City, County and State officials, and various veterans service organizations and the ever present Patriot Guard motorcycle detachment.

Visitation will be held for Lcpl Denier, Monday from 3-7 PM at the American Legion Post 91, 427 So. Main St., Mechanicville.

Funeral Service will be Tuesday at 11 AM at American Legion Post 91.

Burial with full military honors at the Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga NationalCemetery, 200 Duell Rd., Schuylerville is scheduled for 1 PM Tuesday.

Remembrances may be made to the Wounded Warrior Project, PO Box 758517,Topeka, Kansas  66675, in respectful memory of Lcpl Anthony J. Denier.

DeVito-Salvadore Funeral Home has been honored to assist the US Marine Corps and Anthony’s family in this hero’s funeral details.

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Time to Go Home By Doug Keeholts

 Last week, the Big East announced that Tulane University and East Carolina University had accepted invitations to join the conference in 2014 -- Tulane in all sports and East Carolina as an associate member for football only.  Feel free to read that sentence again to grasp its absurdity.  The best analogy I’ve seen regarding the Big East’s illogical expansion over the past few years is that they are the conference that stayed at the bar far too long.  While the Pac-12, SEC, ACC, and Big 10 went home hours ago with the likes of Colorado, Missouri, Syracuse, and Maryland – the Big East ordered another round of shots, looked around, and realized it was desperation time so they stumbled over to talk to SMU and Houston.  Judgment clouded by the lure of football dollars when they should have just realized it was time to go home.

Home for the Big East is men’s basketball.   Football was never supposed to be the focus of the Big East conference, but they began dancing with the devil in 1991 when the presidents voted to invite the University of Miami - a school with absolutely no basketball pedigree but a great football team - to join as a full member.  Here we are 21 years later and the time has come for the Big East to find its roots.  The non-football playing members need to break off and create their own conference - a basketball super-conference.

The core is already intact:  St. Johns, Georgetown, Seton Hall, Villanova, Providence, DePaul, and Marquette are all members that either don’t play football or whose football programs play in the lower Championship Subdivision.  The presidents of these schools need to reach out to other like-minded Universities, and there are two obvious ones that would be perfect fits:  Butler and Xavier.   Both have very strong programs featuring recent deep NCAA tournament runs; both reside in good-sized cities (Indianapolis and Cincinnati respectively); and neither has a football program playing at the BCS level.  They should also look at a school like St. Joseph’s in Philadelphia, a natural rival for Villanova and a school with a rich basketball tradition and no football team.  That would create a core of ten basketball programs, primarily in big eastern cities, with either great tradition or tremendous recent success.  Ideally, you would like a conference with twelve programs, so from there they should try to cherry pick two more schools with similar resumes (George Washington?  UMass?  Virginia Commonwealth?).  One would think a conference with such a makeup would attract a lot of exclusive television rights, be extremely competitive nationally in both competition and recruiting, and would be able to generate enough revenue to fund the schools’ other athletic programs.

And they should fight like hell to retain the name Big East.  The name means something in basketball, and the bastardized current football playing version includes San Diego State, which is east of what exactly?  Hawaii?  It’s time for someone to call the Big East a taxi, explain to them how drunk they are, and tell them that it’s time to go home.

 

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Deanna Marie Rivers – 17

CLIFTON PARK – Deanna Marie Rivers, who last week celebrated her 17th birthday, died tragically Saturday, Dec. 2nd, as the result of a two car motor vehicle accident on I-87, south of exit 8.

Born in Troy, , November 23, 1995, she was the loving daughter of Brian and Deborah Lanzone Rivers.  Deanna was a member of the Shenendehowa Central School’s Class of 2013, and was looking forward to graduation this June and entering the College of St. Rose, Albany where she would have pursued a teaching career.

A member of the National Honor Society at Shen, Deanna loved playing  softball, and was the scrappy second baseman for the Lady Plainsman softball team.  She also played many years with the ASA Softball program inClifton Park, and was a member of the area traveling league.  She also was the proud team manager of the men’s varsity basketball team at Shen.

An active member of St. Edward the Confessor Church in Clifton Park, Deanna taught religious instruction to the church’s youth.

Survivors in addition to her parents include her younger sister, Jenna Elizabeth Rivers, her grandparents Joseph and Mary Carol Lanzone of Mechanicville, and the late Bernard and Barbara Kohler Rivers.  Also aunts and uncles Debbie and John Wentworth of Clifton Park, Kevin and Michele Rivers of Mechanicville, Pam and Joe Fusco of So. Carolina, Diane and Anthony Zappone of Clifton Park, Cathy and Rick Reed of Halfmoon, Joseph and Ceil Lanzone of Mechanicville, along with a large number of great aunts, uncles, cousins and her many friends at Shenendehowa Central School.

A Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Thursday, Dec. 6th at 10 AM at St. Edward the Confessor Church, 569 Clifton Park Center Road, with burial in St. Paul’s Cemetery, Mechanicville.

Calling hours at St. Edward the Confessor Church on Wednesday from 3-7 PM.

Deanna’s family suggests remembrances be made to the Deanna Marie Rivers Memorial Scholarship, c/o Shenendehowa Central School, 5 Chelsea Place, Clifton Park, 12065, in loving memory of Deanna.

Arrangements by the DeVito-Salvadore Funeral Home, Mechanicville.

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Post #490 Remembers Pearl Harbor – By Sandy McBride

Earl J. Manning Post #490 of the American Legion will commemorate Pearl Harbor Day on Friday, December 7 at 5 p.m. with a ceremony inside the post and the traditional laying of a decorated wreath outside at the Veterans’ Memorial immediately following.

Seventy-one years ago, on December 7, 1941, on a peaceful Sunday morning, the Japanese bombarded the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. That brazen assault did, in effect, as even the Japanese hierarchy acknowledged, awaken a sleeping giant.  In the face of fear, grief and anger, the American people came together, joined forces and did what needed to be done to defeat an enemy which had been bold enough to attack us on our own turf.

 

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Lance Corporal Anthony Dernier

Lance Corporal Anthony Dernier

Mechanicville native Lance Corporal Anthony J Denier was killed Sunday while on foot patrol in the Marjeh district of Afghanistan. He had joined the marines nearly two years ago. He called his mother every Sunday. This past Sunday she was waiting for his phone call . Instead 2 Marines in full dress uniform appeared at her door to deliver the sad news. He will be buried at the Gerald Solomon National Cemetery next week.

Corporal Denier's mother related that Anthony had always wanted to be a Marine. He had to overcome all the obstacles to be a Marine and he overcame them. He felt very strongly that the need to protect his country, family and our freedoms. At the time of his death he "was doing what he wanted to do. For all of us " Mrs. Morgan said.

Anthony's mother wants everyone to know how supportive the Marine Corps have been. They have helped with all of the details that must be attended to. "They stand by a Marine's family."

Tom Salvadore and the United States Marine Corps will take care of funeral arrangements. American Legioin Post 91 in Mechanicville will hold a service for Anthony. He will be buried with full military honors at the Geral Solomon National Cemetery.

He had been in Afghanistan only since October 26th.

Mrs. Morgan wants everyone to know how very proud his family is of Anthony.

Besides his mother he is survived by sisters Maria Betts and Amy Denier.

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Ronald B. Piasencia – 62

MECHANICVILLE – Ronald B. Plasencia, 62, of Central Ave., died suddenly Thursday, Nov 29th, at St. Mary’s Hospital, after being stricken at home.

Born in Troy, Nov. 4, 1950, he was son of the late Ernest and Mary Thompson Plasencia, Sr., and brother of the late Linda Plasencia Cassidy.

 

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