RIP
Anthony "Tony" Peter Oliveto, an easy-going radiant man, died peacefully at Prince William Hospital in Manassas, VA. He was 92 years old. A native of the Bronx, NY, and of Roman Catholic and son of Italian immigrants, Anthony was the first member of his family born in the United States. He worked with his father, Pasquale, on a truck carrying ice and coal during his youth and left high school shortly after his mother Josephine's death to support his family.
He served in World War II with the 81st Ordinance. Friends and family nicknamed him "Legs" because he was always the tallest person in any group. Anthony loved playing sports, especially baseball, football, boxing, and hockey. He was a member of the Westchester Hockey Club in the 1930s.
After being honorably discharged from the army in November, 1945, Anthony took a job hailing bulky mailbags with the United States Postal Service for both the New York City Board of Education and Forbes Magazine. He married Josephine Lagana on December 8, 1945, and they had four children together. Anthony reveled in the simple pleasures in life, like a morning cup of coffee or basking under the sun. He grew up near Yankee Stadium and recalled Babe Ruth hitting a home run every time he attended a game.
As "Dad," Anthony made sure all his children got the education he never had the chance to obtain. All four of them graduated college and started families of their own. As "Grandpa," and moving to Manassas, VA, Anthony loved sharing stories around the dinner table and watching his grandchildren grow. Along with his daughter Marian, he helped raise grandchildren Katie and Daniel Roem after their father John died in 1987. (He said) "My best day was when Dan said, 'Grandpa, why don't you be president?'" Anthony wrote in his diary.
Anthony, a lifetime Knights of Columbus member, was preceded in death by his mother, Josephine Oliveto, stepmother Josephine Oliveto, father Pasquale Oliveto, brother James Oliveto, and his wife Josephine Oliveto. His memory lives through his brothers Salvatore and James Oliveto and through his adult children Joann Gratt, Marian Roem, Patrick Oliveto and Geraldine Oliveto; his grandchildren Paul Gratt, Courtney Oliveto, Katie and Daniel Roem, Patrick Oliveto, James and Ruben Stann and one great-granddaughter, Regan Olivia.
Laura M. Guidoboni, 15, of Kingston, died Monday, Feb. 25, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in North Carolina. Born April 6, 1992, in Plymouth, she was the daughter of Mark and Cheryl (Bricker) Guidoboni. She was a lifelong resident of Kingston.She attended Kingston Elementary School, Silver Lake Regional Junior High School, and was a sophomore at Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, where she lettered in cross country and ran indoor and outdoor track. She was a talented artist, a member of the Venture Crew BSA and a lifeguard at the Kingsbury Club in Kingston. She was scuba qualified, played tennis and played the guitar. She was a parishioner of St. Joseph Church, in Kingston, and she was a member of the Girl Scouts.
Besides her parents, she is survived by her two brothers, Jonathan and Scott Guidoboni of Kingston; her paternal grandparents, Dr. Richard and Janice Guidoboni of Kingston; her maternal grandmother, Mary Bricker of St. Petersburg, Fla.; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at Holy Family Church, 601 Tremont St., Duxbury, at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 8. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Kingston. Visiting hours are from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 7, at the Shepherd Funeral Home, 216 Main St., Kingston. For online condolences, to go shepherdfuneralhoome.com.
Memorial donations may be made to the Laura Guidoboni Memorial Tower Fund, c/o the Sovereign Bank, Summer Street, Kingston, MA 02364, to build a new lifeguard tower at Camp Squanto.
Armed with a vast range of knowledge and an English teacher’s devotion to grammar, James M. “Jim” Musser was in his element on the copy desk during a long career with The Chicago Tribune.
Musser, 60, died of complications from liver disease Thursday, March 20, 2008, in his Cook County Cicero home, said his wife, Sharon Duplain Musser.
James was born in Tiffin on Sept. 15, 1947, to the late Leonard J. and Dorothy (Dauwalter) Musser.
Mr. Musser spent time on almost every copy desk at the newspaper, editing stories for the national and foreign section, features and metro. Longtime metro copy desk chief Mitch Dydo, now retired, still remembers Mr. Musser’s 1979 Tribune tryout, when job prospects are tested on their knowledge of grammar and style.
“He was the best grammarian I ever had trying out on my desk,” Dydo said. “I was just floored by his grammatical knowledge.”
In 1995, Mr. Musser received the newspaper’s Johnrae Earl Award for excellence in editing.
Mr. Musser was an old-school copy editor whose near-obsessive attention to detail sometimes proved irritating to reporters whom he questioned in late-night phone calls.
“He was an ornery sort, but at the same time he liked to be a teacher, he liked to instruct people,” Dydo said. “He was really intent on making stories and the newspapers as perfect as he could.”
After a night of poring over copy on deadline, Mr. Musser sometimes brought his work home with him, his wife said.
“He’d always come home and say, ‘I don’t know why these guys can’t get the streets straight, or the chronology right,’” his wife said.
But he found great satisfaction in improving flawed copy.
“He liked to pull a story together, having the correct grammar and making it clear to the reader,” his wife said. “He loved the challenge-although he wasn’t that patient.”
Mr. Musser grew up in the small town of Tiffin, Ohio. At Ohio State University, he started out as a math major but became frustrated with the professors in that department and switched to journalism, which he quickly embraced.
He worked as a copy editor at papers in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Milwaukee before coming to the Tribune.
A passionate game player and designer, Mr. Musser left the Tribune briefly in the 1980s to run a retail game store in Oak Park. Before his death, he was designing a game based on the history of the American Indians, his wife said.
Mr. Musser was previously married and divorced three times.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Karl; a daughter, Lisa Reid; two brothers, Marion and Jerry; a sister, Nancy, and two grandchildren, Dixon and Miller Reid.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Engle - Shook Funeral Home in Tiffin. Visitation also will be on Saturday, from 10-11 a.m., at the funeral home. Burial will follow the service on Saturday, at Greenlawn cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Liver Foundation. On-line condolences may be left for the family at www.engleshookfuneralhome.com.
Shannon Maginn, died tragically on Sunday in an automobile accident. Her New York colleagues described Shannon as a very outgoing, enthusiastic spirit, and we are all deeply shocked and saddened by her passing.
Shannon was committed to a charity known as the Wounded Warriors Project. The Wounded Warriors' charity seeks to assist the men and women in our armed forces who have been severely injured during the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations around the world.
Barbara J. Elko
Barbara J. (Williams) Elko of Horsham passed away on Wednesday, May 7, 2008, at her home surrounded by her loved ones after a long courageous battle with cancer. She was 56.
Born in Somerset, N.J., she was the daughter of Violet Williams.
She was the beloved wife of Gary J. Elko of Horsham; the loving mother of Donald Johnson (Kathleen) of Willow Grove, Timothy Johnson (Kara) of Warrington and Kristina Luscan (James) of Hatboro.
She was the sister of Kenneth Williams, John Moehler, Jacque McMillan and Richard Williams and the grandmother of Amber, Samantha, Kyle, Zoey, Anthony, Kylie and Jayme
Relatives and friends are invited to attend her memorial service noon Thursday, May 15, at Decker Funeral Home, 216 York Road, Warminster, where friends will be received from 11 a.m. until the time of the service. Interment will be held privately. Decker Funeral Home, Warminster
www.deckerfuneralhome.com
He served in World War II with the 81st Ordinance. Friends and family nicknamed him "Legs" because he was always the tallest person in any group. Anthony loved playing sports, especially baseball, football, boxing, and hockey. He was a member of the Westchester Hockey Club in the 1930s.
After being honorably discharged from the army in November, 1945, Anthony took a job hailing bulky mailbags with the United States Postal Service for both the New York City Board of Education and Forbes Magazine. He married Josephine Lagana on December 8, 1945, and they had four children together. Anthony reveled in the simple pleasures in life, like a morning cup of coffee or basking under the sun. He grew up near Yankee Stadium and recalled Babe Ruth hitting a home run every time he attended a game.
As "Dad," Anthony made sure all his children got the education he never had the chance to obtain. All four of them graduated college and started families of their own. As "Grandpa," and moving to Manassas, VA, Anthony loved sharing stories around the dinner table and watching his grandchildren grow. Along with his daughter Marian, he helped raise grandchildren Katie and Daniel Roem after their father John died in 1987. (He said) "My best day was when Dan said, 'Grandpa, why don't you be president?'" Anthony wrote in his diary.
Anthony, a lifetime Knights of Columbus member, was preceded in death by his mother, Josephine Oliveto, stepmother Josephine Oliveto, father Pasquale Oliveto, brother James Oliveto, and his wife Josephine Oliveto. His memory lives through his brothers Salvatore and James Oliveto and through his adult children Joann Gratt, Marian Roem, Patrick Oliveto and Geraldine Oliveto; his grandchildren Paul Gratt, Courtney Oliveto, Katie and Daniel Roem, Patrick Oliveto, James and Ruben Stann and one great-granddaughter, Regan Olivia.
Laura M. Guidoboni, 15, of Kingston, died Monday, Feb. 25, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in North Carolina. Born April 6, 1992, in Plymouth, she was the daughter of Mark and Cheryl (Bricker) Guidoboni. She was a lifelong resident of Kingston.She attended Kingston Elementary School, Silver Lake Regional Junior High School, and was a sophomore at Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, where she lettered in cross country and ran indoor and outdoor track. She was a talented artist, a member of the Venture Crew BSA and a lifeguard at the Kingsbury Club in Kingston. She was scuba qualified, played tennis and played the guitar. She was a parishioner of St. Joseph Church, in Kingston, and she was a member of the Girl Scouts.
Besides her parents, she is survived by her two brothers, Jonathan and Scott Guidoboni of Kingston; her paternal grandparents, Dr. Richard and Janice Guidoboni of Kingston; her maternal grandmother, Mary Bricker of St. Petersburg, Fla.; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at Holy Family Church, 601 Tremont St., Duxbury, at 10 a.m., Saturday, March 8. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Kingston. Visiting hours are from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 7, at the Shepherd Funeral Home, 216 Main St., Kingston. For online condolences, to go shepherdfuneralhoome.com.
Memorial donations may be made to the Laura Guidoboni Memorial Tower Fund, c/o the Sovereign Bank, Summer Street, Kingston, MA 02364, to build a new lifeguard tower at Camp Squanto.
Armed with a vast range of knowledge and an English teacher’s devotion to grammar, James M. “Jim” Musser was in his element on the copy desk during a long career with The Chicago Tribune.
Musser, 60, died of complications from liver disease Thursday, March 20, 2008, in his Cook County Cicero home, said his wife, Sharon Duplain Musser.
James was born in Tiffin on Sept. 15, 1947, to the late Leonard J. and Dorothy (Dauwalter) Musser.
Mr. Musser spent time on almost every copy desk at the newspaper, editing stories for the national and foreign section, features and metro. Longtime metro copy desk chief Mitch Dydo, now retired, still remembers Mr. Musser’s 1979 Tribune tryout, when job prospects are tested on their knowledge of grammar and style.
“He was the best grammarian I ever had trying out on my desk,” Dydo said. “I was just floored by his grammatical knowledge.”
In 1995, Mr. Musser received the newspaper’s Johnrae Earl Award for excellence in editing.
Mr. Musser was an old-school copy editor whose near-obsessive attention to detail sometimes proved irritating to reporters whom he questioned in late-night phone calls.
“He was an ornery sort, but at the same time he liked to be a teacher, he liked to instruct people,” Dydo said. “He was really intent on making stories and the newspapers as perfect as he could.”
After a night of poring over copy on deadline, Mr. Musser sometimes brought his work home with him, his wife said.
“He’d always come home and say, ‘I don’t know why these guys can’t get the streets straight, or the chronology right,’” his wife said.
But he found great satisfaction in improving flawed copy.
“He liked to pull a story together, having the correct grammar and making it clear to the reader,” his wife said. “He loved the challenge-although he wasn’t that patient.”
Mr. Musser grew up in the small town of Tiffin, Ohio. At Ohio State University, he started out as a math major but became frustrated with the professors in that department and switched to journalism, which he quickly embraced.
He worked as a copy editor at papers in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Milwaukee before coming to the Tribune.
A passionate game player and designer, Mr. Musser left the Tribune briefly in the 1980s to run a retail game store in Oak Park. Before his death, he was designing a game based on the history of the American Indians, his wife said.
Mr. Musser was previously married and divorced three times.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Karl; a daughter, Lisa Reid; two brothers, Marion and Jerry; a sister, Nancy, and two grandchildren, Dixon and Miller Reid.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Engle - Shook Funeral Home in Tiffin. Visitation also will be on Saturday, from 10-11 a.m., at the funeral home. Burial will follow the service on Saturday, at Greenlawn cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Liver Foundation. On-line condolences may be left for the family at www.engleshookfuneralhome.com.
Shannon Maginn, died tragically on Sunday in an automobile accident. Her New York colleagues described Shannon as a very outgoing, enthusiastic spirit, and we are all deeply shocked and saddened by her passing.
Shannon was committed to a charity known as the Wounded Warriors Project. The Wounded Warriors' charity seeks to assist the men and women in our armed forces who have been severely injured during the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations around the world.
Barbara J. Elko
Barbara J. (Williams) Elko of Horsham passed away on Wednesday, May 7, 2008, at her home surrounded by her loved ones after a long courageous battle with cancer. She was 56.
Born in Somerset, N.J., she was the daughter of Violet Williams.
She was the beloved wife of Gary J. Elko of Horsham; the loving mother of Donald Johnson (Kathleen) of Willow Grove, Timothy Johnson (Kara) of Warrington and Kristina Luscan (James) of Hatboro.
She was the sister of Kenneth Williams, John Moehler, Jacque McMillan and Richard Williams and the grandmother of Amber, Samantha, Kyle, Zoey, Anthony, Kylie and Jayme
Relatives and friends are invited to attend her memorial service noon Thursday, May 15, at Decker Funeral Home, 216 York Road, Warminster, where friends will be received from 11 a.m. until the time of the service. Interment will be held privately. Decker Funeral Home, Warminster
www.deckerfuneralhome.com