AMHERST- Amy L. Wasserman, 63, of North Amherst, Ma, formerly of Pelham, left us early the morning of August 2 as the full moon set. Amy was the daughter of Hannah and Seymour Wasserman. She grew up in Natick, and graduated from Clark and Pratt Universities.

Amy was an artist and designer who made magical, whimsical and colorful things from yarn, polymer clay and any surface that could be painted. She was a master knitter, quilter and collage illustrator. She never left anyone in the dark about her opinion. She loved her daughter fiercely, and loved walking in nature with her dog, seeing rainbows, the weekly Amherst Farmer’s Market, knitting circles, connecting with and keeping tabs on extended family and her circle of friends. She taught all of us the meaning of resilience. She supported and was supported by Cancer Connection for almost 25 years. She was brave beyond measure and lived each day with an “attitude of gratitude.”  

She is survived by her daughter, Lily Plotkin and her partner Carlos Ayala Sibrian; Lily’s Dad, Scott Plotkin; her sisters and their families, Nancy and Katherine Arnup of Ottawa, Canada and Cathy and Victor Colman of Olympia, Washington and their children Rosa and Eli; her dear cousins Jane Neubardt and Ellen Wasserman of White Plains, New York and their families; Jonathan and Barbara Plotkin of Ithaca, NY, Martha Plotkin and Darren Gersh of Washington, DC and their families; her dog Ellie; and a large circle of friends.

Please join her family in a celebration of Amy’s life on Saturday, October 21 at 11 am at the Mt. Toby Friends Meetinghouse, 194 Long Plain Rd. (Route 63) in Leverett, MA.  Please wear bright colors and/or things made by Amy.  Feel free to bring your knitting, photos and stories.

Memorial contributions may be made to Cancer Connection, 41 Locust St., Northampton, Ma 01060 or www.cancer-connection.org

Memorial Guestbook at www.douglassfuneral.com

Springfield- Jane T. Sienkiewicz passed away peacefully at home on July 22, 2023.  She was born Jane Hayes on June 10, 1929, to Albina H. (Chagnon) and Edward F. Hayes of Mt. Tom Junction, MA.  She worked in a defense plant during WWII before meeting her husband, Ronald P. Sienkiewicz of New York, NY and Hadley, MA.  They were wed on August 27, 1949 at Immaculate Conception in Easthampton, MA.

Jane was a homemaker and mother until her youngest child started school; she then went to work in the Registrar’s Office at UMass Amherst, where she worked for 23 years.  She retired in 1995 and spent her remaining years travelling, gardening, and visiting friends and family.

She was predeceased by her husband, Ronald P. Sienkiewicz (1983) and daughter, Veronica, (2017).  She is survived by her son, Steven & his wife, Susan of Orlando, FL, “The Girls”: Susan Blagburn & husband Ken of Lake View PLT, ME, Maryanne Sienkiewicz & husband Edward Hobbs of West Hatfield, MA, Jane Patenaude & husband Michael of Holyoke, MA and Terry Sienkiewicz & partner Gary Brogan of Brownville, ME many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great, great- grandchildren, nieces & nephews.

She is also survived by her sister, Kathleen Hayes of Ballston Spa, NY, sisters-in-law Roberta Reardon of Whately, Kay Sienkiewicz of Buckhannon, WV. and dear friends and adopted children Lynn Nolan & husband Higgy of Springfield, John & David Wolfe of Wyncote, PA and Abbi Gold of Tucson, AZ.

Visitation will be Saturday, July 29, 2023 at Douglass Funeral Home, 87 N Pleasant Street, Amherst from 8:30-9:30 A.M., with a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Brigid’s Catholic Church, 122 N. Pleasant St, Amherst at 10:00 A.M. with burial following at St. Brigid’s Cemetery at the corner of N. Maple St. & Rocky Hill Rd. in Hadley. Memorial guestbook at www.douglassfuneral.com

Charlies Frederick Smyser, Jr., age 98 of Amherst, Massachusetts, passed away on July 20, 2023 after a long and fruitful life.  Charles was born on May 25, 1925 to Charles, Sr., and Gladys (Thomson) Smyser in Baltimore, Maryland.  Charles attended high school at the private Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, followed by a BS at the University of Maryland and an MS in Bacteriology from the University of Connecticut in 1952.  After graduation he came to the University of Massachusetts as an associate professor of microbiology in the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.  There he was principally responsible for the State testing program for avian diseases.  After retirement in 1987 he continued part-time in the same role for another fifteen years.

In 1955 he married Jean Elizabeth Pruyne, originally of Pittsfield.  They went on have four children, David (1955 to 1998), Jonathan, Robert (Bridget) and Cheryl Roberts.  He will be missed by his four grandchildren, Kacey (Austin) Snape, Jordyn Roberts, Tristan and Kieran Smyser, and two great-grandchildren, Sydney and Charles Snape.  

Over the years, Charlie had many interests, including making furniture, maple sugaring, and long walks to town and around the neighborhood.  He was active in Boy Scouts and volunteered for the North Congregational Church in Amherst.  He drove for a time with his son’s business, Dave’s Taxi Service. He was a loyal fan of Baltimore sports teams, and a reliable presence in his yellow “game day” socks at his granddaughters field hockey and basketball games.  

Calling Hours on Thursday, July 27 from 5 to 7 pm.

Funeral Services will be held on Friday July 28 at 11 am at Douglass Funeral Home in Amherst. 

MEMORIAL GUESTBOOK AT www.douglassfuneral.com 

Joyce died Sunday morning living life to the fullest and never letting cancer take the lead.  To know Joyce made you a better person.

An amazing woman, wife, mom, grandma, great grandma, sister, auntie, cousin, “sista” and friend.  Lover of all 2 legged, 4 legged and everything in between.  She is, and will be missed forever. 

In her memory, Joyce wanted all of us to live life to the fullest, love unconditionally and laugh often and as much as you can.  She wanted everyone to dance like no one is watching and to know that she loved you more!

There are no services, instead Joyce had a celebration of life last month that filled the room with love, light, joy and happiness which is how she wanted to be remembered. 

Memorial guest book is at www.douglassfuneral.com

Bud Mahoney (Walter J. Jr.) died peacefully on June 13,2023 in Northampton, Massachusetts surrounded by family and friends. Bud was born in Buffalo, N.Y., and is survived by his sister Rev. Eileen Mahoney, his daughter Julia Faruq (Umar), granddaughter Jasmine Davidson (Collin) and his great granddaughter Hayden Jane Davidson.

Bud attended Canisius High School in Buffalo, N.Y. and Georgetown University. He received law and public policy degrees from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His most prized initiatives were the historic restoration of the NYS Capitol and  a program to preserve indigenous peoples culture in New Zealand.

Bud never lost the core principles of his childhood faith. He delved deeply into diverse spiritual traditions, believing that we are all interconnected, part of the Greater Whole. He often visited the Peace Pagoda in Leverett, Ma. and regularly enjoyed Hindu chanting with groups of friends.

He was a natural philosopher and political analyst who relentlessly engaged his friends in exploring how we could create a more just and compassionate world. Among his very last words were, “Wonders never cease, for holy is the darkness and all shall be released.”

His friends and family will remember him for his constant search for meaning and especially for his generous, open heart.

All services are private

Memorial Guestbook at www.douglassfuneral.com

Adrian Parsegian

May 28, 1939-July 5, 2023

AMHERST, MA. Vozken Adrian Parsegian was born in Boston. His mother, an Armenian immigrant, traveled all the way from Brooklyn so that her son could have “Boston” on his birth certificate. Adrian grew up in Brooklyn, attended Stuyvesant high school, then graduated magna cum laude in physics from Dartmouth College. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1965 after doing his thesis research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel under Aharon Khatchalsky Katzir. There’s a famous story that when Adrian arrived, he was told that Aharon was lecturing. “I will just go listen to his lecture,” said Adrian. “But it’s in Hebrew!” replied the secretary of the Polymer Department. “That doesn’t matter,” said Adrian, who knew as yet not a word of Hebrew. (He did speak Armenian and eventually was even able to lecture in Hebrew.) He returned to the secretary, who asked, “well, did you understand anything”? “Oh yes,” said Adrian. “There were only three words I did not understand.” He produced a napkin with three words written: KEN, LO, OO-LIE (yes, no, maybe).  All the other words, like “entropia” or “polymerim,” were comprehensible to a physicist.

    Later, another anecdote started to make the rounds. When Adrian began his novel explanations of x-ray diffraction (the physics of forces,) he presented his findings at a seminar. “You can’t do that,” growled an eminent physicist. “But I just did!”

    Adrian did his post doc with Irwin Oppenheim of MIT, mostly at the University of Amsterdam. Then he went to work at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where he eventually became head of the Laboratory of Structural Biology. It was an intense, dedicated group of scientists from around the world, working together during those happy days. Adrian also wrote a successful book on van der Waals Forces (Cambridge University Press), typically titled “A Handbook for Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, and Physicists,” designed for use at three levels of expertise, all cross referenced. It was a publishing success, not least because Adrian insisted that the paperback edition (for students) be sold for $40. He would forgo his royalties to keep the book available to those who could use it. Those who remember how wildly expensive textbooks were (and are) will appreciate the “yes, I can” quality of Adrian’s publishing experience. Later on, teaching an advanced physics course at the University of Massachusetts, he gave copies of his book to his students.

Adrian was founding editor of the Biophysical Discussions.  That was actually a successful experiment enforcing interdisciplinary exchanges, modeled on the Faraday Society meetings (no talks, only discussion of submitted papers, with the edited questions and answers published with the research papers in the Biophysical Journal). Here, too, Adrian ran into “you can’t do that,” and prevailed. As editor of the Biophysical Journal, he wanted to see how the actual product was published (by the Rockefeller University Press), and journeyed to Philadelphia to watch the presses running. (This was in 1978).  He saw the final text being put into a computer for typesetting, and observed, “but those papers were already generated on computers. Why are they being retyped? Can’t we just use the digital material already typed in by the scientists? That meant collecting everyone’s floppy discs (then) and then figuring out how to utilize the various sources – KayPro, IBM, even Osbornes, UNIX, CPM, and DOS, and a little square device called a Macintosh. But Adrian worked in the Computer Division at the NIH and with their expert help he figured out how to make direct use of the already-created document files. Figures and photos still had to be done the old-fashioned way, by plates, but the main texts no longer needed to be painstakingly retyped, and copyeditors no longer had to spot a host of new errors introduced by the retyping. “You can’t do that” became “wow, you saved us a ton of money and time.” The Biophysical Discussions came out as a journal issue only a few months after the meeting itself. Adrian was elected President of the Biophysical Association.

 The University of Massachusetts at Amherst had been wooing Adrian for some time, offering the position of a new Gluckstern Professor of Physics. Adrian had enjoyed his year of teaching physics at Princeton, and thought he might like to try his hand at teaching again. As he said when he came to UMass, “the work at his NIH lab measuring forces between and within large molecules can also be expanded into many student projects.” When he received an honorary doctorate in Spain (2008), in his acceptance speech he observed that he always got his best scientific ideas hiking with friends and colleagues. Mostly, he was to be seen pedaling along on his non-fancy bicycle. He celebrated his Dartmouth 50^th reunion by biking with three classmates all the way from Amherst to Hanover.

 Adrian and Val celebrated their 60^th anniversary in March of this year. They have three sons, Andrew, Homer, and Aram, and three grandchildren, Seth, Benjamin, and Lauren. In later years Adrian developed non-Alzheimer’s dementia and slowly declined, ending eventually in the care of the Fisher Home (Hospice) in Amherst, where he passed away on July 5, 2023. He donated his brain to the Massachusetts General Dementia unit.

 Hiking will be his last adventure.  He showed his sons exactly where, on Mount Washington, he wants his ashes to continue their journey.

MEMORIAL GUESTBOOK AT: http://www.douglass funeral.com

Adrian Parsegian

May 28, 1939-July 5, 2023

AMHERST, MA. Vozken Adrian Parsegian was born in Boston. His mother, an Armenian immigrant, traveled all the way from Brooklyn so that her son could have “Boston” on his birth certificate. Adrian grew up in Brooklyn, attended Stuyvesant high school, then graduated magna cum laude in physics from Dartmouth College. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1965 after doing his thesis research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel under Aharon Khatchalsky Katzir. There’s a famous story that when Adrian arrived, he was told that Aharon was lecturing. “I will just go listen to his lecture,” said Adrian. “But it’s in Hebrew!” replied the secretary of the Polymer Department. “That doesn’t matter,” said Adrian, who knew as yet not a word of Hebrew. (He did speak Armenian and eventually was even able to lecture in Hebrew.) He returned to the secretary, who asked, “well, did you understand anything”? “Oh yes,” said Adrian. “There were only three words I did not understand.” He produced a napkin with three words written: KEN, LO, OO-LIE (yes, no, maybe).  All the other words, like “entropia” or “polymerim,” were comprehensible to a physicist.

    Later, another anecdote started to make the rounds. When Adrian began his novel explanations of x-ray diffraction (the physics of forces,) he presented his findings at a seminar. “You can’t do that,” growled an eminent physicist. “But I just did!”

    Adrian did his post doc with Irwin Oppenheim of MIT, mostly at the University of Amsterdam. Then he went to work at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, where he eventually became head of the Laboratory of Structural Biology. It was an intense, dedicated group of scientists from around the world, working together during those happy days. Adrian also wrote a successful book on van der Waals Forces (Cambridge University Press), typically titled “A Handbook for Biologists, Chemists, Engineers, and Physicists,” designed for use at three levels of expertise, all cross referenced. It was a publishing success, not least because Adrian insisted that the paperback edition (for students) be sold for $40. He would forgo his royalties to keep the book available to those who could use it. Those who remember how wildly expensive textbooks were (and are) will appreciate the “yes, I can” quality of Adrian’s publishing experience. Later on, teaching an advanced physics course at the University of Massachusetts, he gave copies of his book to his students.

Adrian was founding editor of the Biophysical Discussions.  That was actually a successful experiment enforcing interdisciplinary exchanges, modeled on the Faraday Society meetings (no talks, only discussion of submitted papers, with the edited questions and answers published with the research papers in the Biophysical Journal). Here, too, Adrian ran into “you can’t do that,” and prevailed. As editor of the Biophysical Journal, he wanted to see how the actual product was published (by the Rockefeller University Press), and journeyed to Philadelphia to watch the presses running. (This was in 1978).  He saw the final text being put into a computer for typesetting, and observed, “but those papers were already generated on computers. Why are they being retyped? Can’t we just use the digital material already typed in by the scientists? That meant collecting everyone’s floppy discs (then) and then figuring out how to utilize the various sources – KayPro, IBM, even Osbornes, UNIX, CPM, and DOS, and a little square device called a Macintosh. But Adrian worked in the Computer Division at the NIH and with their expert help he figured out how to make direct use of the already-created document files. Figures and photos still had to be done the old-fashioned way, by plates, but the main texts no longer needed to be painstakingly retyped, and copyeditors no longer had to spot a host of new errors introduced by the retyping. “You can’t do that” became “wow, you saved us a ton of money and time.” The Biophysical Discussions came out as a journal issue only a few months after the meeting itself. Adrian was elected President of the Biophysical Association.

 The University of Massachusetts at Amherst had been wooing Adrian for some time, offering the position of a new Gluckstern Professor of Physics. Adrian had enjoyed his year of teaching physics at Princeton, and thought he might like to try his hand at teaching again. As he said when he came to UMass, “the work at his NIH lab measuring forces between and within large molecules can also be expanded into many student projects.” When he received an honorary doctorate in Spain (2008), in his acceptance speech he observed that he always got his best scientific ideas hiking with friends and colleagues. Mostly, he was to be seen pedaling along on his non-fancy bicycle. He celebrated his Dartmouth 50^th reunion by biking with three classmates all the way from Amherst to Hanover.

 Adrian and Val celebrated their 60^th anniversary in March of this year. They have three sons, Andrew, Homer, and Aram, and three grandchildren, Seth, Benjamin, and Lauren. In later years Adrian developed non-Alzheimer’s dementia and slowly declined, ending eventually in the care of the Fisher Home (Hospice) in Amherst, where he passed away on July 5, 2023. He donated his brain to the Massachusetts General Dementia unit.

 Hiking will be his last adventure.  He showed his sons exactly where, on Mount Washington, he wants his ashes to continue their journey.

MEMORIAL GUESTBOOK AT: http://www.douglass funeral.com

AMHERST, MA.

D. Joseph (Joe) Bodin died peacefully and without pain at the age of 89, on June 28, 2023, from injuries suffered in a fall that morning.

Joe was born in Hampden, Connecticut on August 7, 1933, to Gustaf Henry Bodin and Jesse Martha (Butler) Bodin. He grew up in Hampden and graduated from Suffolk Academy. He received a Bachelor of Arts in from Springfield College. He served as an officer in the United States Navy and was discharged with the rank of Ensign.

Joe was married to Jane Adeline Hudson on July 13, 1957; they were married 62 years.

He enjoyed summers at the Connecticut shore as a child, and at Prudence Island, R.I. after his marriage. He traveled all over the world before and after retirement. He and Jane visited more than 20 different countries together. They also vacationed in Barbados for 30 years. Joe loved gardening, building and flying radio-controlled model airplanes, and sailing. He served as a Deacon at South Church in Amherst for many years. He was a wonderful, loving father and his children miss him very much.

Joe worked in sales and marketing for the former Norton Company, as human resources manager at Fontaine Modular Homes, and in marketing for Standard (later Gretag) Manufacturing Company.

Joe is survived by his daughter Kristi, son David and his wife Jaqueline, son Richard and his husband Gregory Feller, and grandson David Joseph III, (who shared his home and helped care for him over the last several years), his brother Gustaf Richard and sister-in-law Virginia, several nieces and nephews, other family and many friends.

Joe was preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Jane.

The family of Joe Bodin wishes to thank Elite Home Care Agency for their thoughtful and loving caregivers, and the members of the Town of Amherst Fire/EMS for their compassion and professional service.

Burial services were private. 

A Memorial Service will be held on August 12, 2023, 1pm, at the South Congregational Church, 1066 S. East Street, South Amherst, Ma. 01002.

In lieu of flowers, and to honor Joe’s love for children, memorial donations may be given to Shriners Hospitals for Children — Development Office Springfield, 516 Carew St., Springfield, MA 01104 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/locations/new-england/about-us/ways-to-give or,

St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 1-800-822-6344, 501 St Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105, Source Code: IIQ190788777 (https://www.stjude.org ) 

AMHERST, MA.

Greg completed his time here on earth with intelligence, compassion, and deep caring on May 27, 2023 at 3:45 p.m. at home.   He succumbed following a series of medical complications. He was 32.

Greg was born on Jan 09, 1991 in Kisavarda, Hungary.  It is a tiny village on the Ukrainian border, desperately poor.   His mother had poor maternal skills, all seven of his siblings were serially abandoned to orphanages,  She abandoned Greg and two siblings twice leaving them in the Sunday market square.   Later she got an unfinished house with no door.  Child services visited and took the three sick kids to an orphanage.  Ben the youngest was deaf from severe ear infections eventually fixed at Boston Childrens Hospital.   Greg became a father at a young age.  He intervened in any beatings of the others and took them himself. 

Judith and I adopted all three in a fit of compassionate madness.  We took them to live in Concord MA where they thrived.  Greg was the protector,  Ben was very tiny; 3 years old and wearing infant clothes.  He carried Ben on his hip as he could not walk.  Evelyn had seizures;  Greg defended her from ridicule.  Nobody messed with his siblings.   Greg struggled life long with CPCSD a condition rooted in childhood neglect generating poor self esteem and subsequent difficulties in bonding.  He was a caregiver and protector that gravitated to “broken birds” for girlfriends.  They led him into their own weaknesses and addictions.  He tried to fix them a hopeless task.  He would find butterflies with torn wings and fix them with superglue.

He was exceedingly bright with an iQ of 140;  He learned perfect English including subjunctives in two months.  He earned an associates degree in Paraprofessionalism with a 4.0 average.  He aced Philosophy and Logic.  He was studying Solid Works to obtain a professional license.   His 3D skills were at 99%.

Recently through 23 and Me he connected with a full sister and several aunts and uncles and first cousins in Hungary.  He was planning a trip to visit them.  After years of anger towards his birth mother he told me “I forgive her”.   His heart was huge and fragile.

Greg had lots of faults.  Life gave him a very difficult start and a rocky path.  We all write our own narratives starting as children.  He had to be his own parent and a parent for his siblings; that damaged him severely.  Judith and I adopted him; it was difficult for him to be a child.  He treated himself as a parent.  There were some off the rails years in middle and high school.  Early trauma never healed.  As parents we took more of a back seat while he wrote his life story.  He gravitated to girlfriends who were not good for him and to drug use to calm his internal pain.  I and Judith tried my best to support him but he was dogged by that pain and difficulty to make relationships.  In Bridgewater treatment center he made great strides with excellent counselors.  He excelled at coursework.  I was very hopeful, so was he.  His inner voices, calling him a failure or useless person, never went away.  Drugs to calm them were back in his life.

I am tempted to call myself a failure.  I realize nowI could not fix him or help him fix himself.   In the end he wrote his own story.  He made me a father something I always wanted to be.  I had wonderful philosophic talks with him.  He loved reading the Sufi texts of Idries Shah like Learning How To Learn and Commanding Self.  I will miss those talks sorely.  I tried as an imperfect man to do my best for him.  His pain was too great.  He decided to move on.  I miss my legal beagle, my big idea talk mate, my excellent handyman, my fixer of torn butterfly wings, my kid with pain so deep I could not help him.   I grieve and will for the rest of my life.

Greg was predeceased by his mother Judith and sister Evelyn.  He has a brother Benjamin Collison, a father Dr. George Collison.  He has two step brothers Dan of Ann Arbor and Steve Feder of  Damariscotta ME. He has cousins Henry of Reno, Louise of New Hope , and Josee of Damariscotta and Lucas of Grafton Vt.  In Hungary from 23 and Me he has a full sister and many aunts and uncles and first cousins.   He had planned to visit them this summer. 

 We all deeply grieve at this loss. May his memory be a blessing.

In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Scherizade Foundation for books for Afghan girls.

https://scheherazadefoundation.org

AMHERST, Joseph A. Waskiewicz, Sr., 93, a lifelong resident and farmer of North Amherst, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Born in Holyoke on January 28, 1930, he was the son of the late Joseph G. and Sophie (Malanowski) Waskiewicz.

Joe grew up on the family farm, J & J Farms, on Meadow St., working alongside his father beginning in the 1930’s using draft horses and very early tractors. He was a graduate of Amherst High School, and it was there that he met his beloved wife, Beverly Jean Lashway. Joe and Bev were married in 1951, made their home on East Pleasant St. and raised their four children Joseph Jr., Michael, Jane and Kathryn. It was on East Pleasant St. where Joe started his first corn stand and became known for his super sweet corn and impeccable quality. Joe and Babe, as he would always call her, moved back to the farm in 1998, bringing the corn stand with them to its current location.

Joe was a communicant of Most Holy Redeemer Church. He was an avid snowmobiler and President of the Amherst Regional Snowmobile Association. He was an Amherst Town Meeting member for many years, a charter member of the first Amherst Farm Committee and a member of the Farm Service Agency for over 20 years, serving as chairman for 9 years.

Joe was particularly proud when J & J Farms became a Centennial Farm in 2009 and to be the owner of the last operating dairy farm in Amherst. He was still helping with daily chores and working alongside his sons and family until he was almost 90. He was also extremely proud of the over 50-year relationship with Atkins Farms supplying valley residents with fresh produce. Joe enjoyed visiting with his customers at the corn stand each year and with his longtime potato and onion customers in the fall.

The only thing Joe took greater pride in than the farm, was his family. This pride was unmatched and Dziadzu could always be counted on for incredible advice and guidance in any situation, a strong bear hug and unconditional love. He instilled in his family a strong work ethic and the importance of taking pride in your work.

Joseph or Juzek, as many called him, was a proud Polish farmer and it wasn’t a Sunday at the farm unless the polkas were playing in the house and while picking corn for the stand. At the end of a long day, Joe could always be found sitting under the trees enjoying the breeze, a cold beer and watching the cows.

In addition to his parents, Joe was predeceased by his wife of 56 years, Beverly, brothers Edek and Tony, sister Carolyn, and daughter-in-law Laura. He is survived by his children Joseph Jr., Michael, Jane and her husband Robert, Kathryn and her husband Scott; five grandchildren Katie and her husband Jon, Jackie and her husband Matthew, Sam, Max and Mara Joe, his great-grandson Matthew Joseph and another great-grandson arriving in September; his sisters-in-law Patricia, Loretta, and Cynthia, and his brother-in-law Eugene and brother-in-law Jim.

Joe’s family would like to especially thank Haoua for the loving and compassionate care she provided him in the last few years.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be Monday, July 3^rd at 10:00 in Most Holy Redeemer Church, Hadley, with burial following in Holy Rosary Cemetery.

Calling hours will be Sunday, July 2^nd from 1-4pm at the Douglass Funeral Service, Amherst.

Obituary and register book at www.douglassfuneral.com.