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Post by bobbbiez on Jan 23, 2011 23:53:08 GMT -5
 I liked Gordon. Nice family. He taught me a lot about politics but toward the end of his term he got sick and didn't do much and I think it was Bob Oderkirk (loser) beat him out for councilman. Bob lived on Georgetown. I think his ex-wife Cindy still lives there. She use to go out with Tiny Williams until Tiny died. All were into politics pretty heavy back then. N. Utica never really had a decent council person up to today. All yes-men for their parties. No one ever with any balls to fight for the people in N.Utica. Actually Father Dwyer at St. Mark's Church and Mrs. Buckley, principle at General Herkimer School, got more done for the area then the council person. They both were fighters and use to go to city hall with their demands and most of the time received what they were seeking. 
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Post by Clipper on Jan 24, 2011 13:07:13 GMT -5
Bob Oderkirk was my scout master in Boy Scouts when I was a kid. Not much of an Alderman huh? Mrs Buckley was a great woman. She was there for many years. I don't remember the priest because the church was not yet built when we moved from Jamestown. We went to St Pete's back when we lived there. We had moved to Newport when the church was built, but I do remember that the rectory was originally in a big house across from Joe Bader's gas station (the one my dad ran before Joe) two doors from where Kathy and I lived before moving here. It was next to Hathaway's house, and when I was a kid, it was owned by a family named White. They owned a gulf heating oil company.
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Post by stoney on Jan 24, 2011 14:35:57 GMT -5
As Bobbie said, Clip~~Don't get your panties in a wad. You know we love you in our own dominatrix way.  Bobbie, I lived on Richmond Rd from '67 to '68, after my grandmother died in Ilion (whom I lived with) & moved in with my mother & asshole step-father. Did your kids go to General Herkimer school? I knew a kid from Parklane Dr. with super red hair, but can't remember his name. |
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Post by bobbbiez on Jan 24, 2011 17:24:16 GMT -5
Yes Stoney, all my kids went to General Herkimer, then the older ones went to Seymour and then to JFK for a while before we moved. All were Salernos. The red- headed kid was a Danaher. They had eight kids in that family and their parents were big shots in the Dog-Show Association. Forgot what they called it. They owned two show dogs, masiffs. Always wondered how all of them and those two hugh dogs fit in that little house. They lived right down the street from me but on the other side.
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Post by bobbbiez on Jan 24, 2011 18:04:44 GMT -5
I don't remember the priest because the church was not yet built when we moved from Jamestown. We went to St Pete's back when we lived there. We had moved to Newport when the church was built We belonged to St Peter's when we first moved to N.Utica but I believe St Mark's Church was built in 1963 because I had my son, Mark, baptized there the year he was born and that's when we became parishioners. Actually, we continued to belong to both churches until we moved because I was on committees at St Peter's and my girlfriend Mary Alice Romano (Ralph's daughter) was organist and Father Don (McGregor) and Father Bob (Kloster) were long time friends of my family, so I didn't want to desert all of them. Both churches were excellent, ran by great people and very involved with the people in their community. |
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Post by Clipper on Jan 24, 2011 18:27:08 GMT -5
We moved from there in January of 1963. Right after Christmas. I remember moving in the snow with the wind blowing like hell in Newport while we were unloading the truck. Brrrr.
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Post by Clipper on Jan 24, 2011 18:29:47 GMT -5
Are ya sure it was the committees that made ya stay with the two churches, and not the fact that you might take all three priests prayin for ya to get you into heaven?  |
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Post by stoney on Jan 24, 2011 19:51:05 GMT -5
That was it! Kevin Danaher! Nice kid. He didn't end up going to Kennedy, so he must have gone to Notre Dame.
I'm trying to think of Salernos I went to school with. I think they must have been after me, as I'm closer to your age than them I'm sure.
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Post by bobbbiez on Jan 24, 2011 19:54:22 GMT -5
Well Clipper, lets put it this way.......it sure as hell doesn't hurt. ;D Two of them are now really pulling for me. Father Don and Father Dwyer have past away so I have two special angels willing to go out on their wings for me. I'm sure they have some pull up there. Both great guys and wonderful caring priest.
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Post by bobbbiez on Jan 24, 2011 20:16:55 GMT -5
That was it! Kevin Danaher! Nice kid. He didn't end up going to Kennedy, so he must have gone to Notre Dame. I'm trying to think of Salernos I went to school with. I think they must have been after me, as I'm closer to your age than them I'm sure. The Danahers moved right after we did so they wouldn't have been going to JFK. Not sure where they moved to. Did see one of the daughters not too long ago. She was working at Philipson's in NH. I was surprised that she recognized me but she said she always remembered coming to my house, swimming in our pool, playing with my kids and the great lunches I always made for all of them. My oldest son, Vinny, will be 50 in June. Mark will be 48 in May, Anthony and Eddie will be 46 this summer. Missy is the baby at 40. I had all of them into just about everything in N.Utica so you might have known them. They mostly hung around with the Marino kids and the DeFazios who both lived right across the street from General Herkimer School and also the Shedds who lived near us. |
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Post by bobbbiez on Jan 24, 2011 20:20:12 GMT -5
We moved from there in January of 1963. Right after Christmas. I remember moving in the snow with the wind blowing like hell in Newport while we were unloading the truck. Brrrr. Kind of like what we'll be doing this Sunday when we finally move into our new house.  |
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Post by Clipper on Jan 24, 2011 21:53:40 GMT -5
I haven't been a practicing catholic for many years, in fact, since high school, but priests like those guys are what it was all about when we were teens. I remember Father Lutz and Father Quinn from St Pauls in Whitesboro. Father Quinn was at St Pete's later on and started the Folk Masses there.
It is a shame that some warped priests have tarnished that sort of neighborhood parish priest forever. I went fishing a few times with Father Lutz. He was cool. He had a black El Camino. With the reputation priests have now, I would not let a kid out of my sight with a priest any more. Very sad. My grandmother Naegele was a devout catholic, that went to mass almost every day. She knew priests that were young priests right out of seminary when she first knew them and were Monsignors in later years as she got older.
She started and ended each day with the rosary and never missed a holy day mass. If she heard someone was sick or had a problem, she would get on a bus and go to the church to light a candle and pray for them.
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Post by bobbbiez on Jan 25, 2011 0:10:09 GMT -5
I haven't been a practicing catholic for many years, in fact, since high school, but priests like those guys are what it was all about when we were teens. I remember Father Lutz and Father Quinn from St Pauls in Whitesboro. Father Quinn was at St Pete's later on and started the Folk Masses there. Yes, Father Quinn was Father Don's best friend and I knew him well. His program was one of the committees I worked on to get our teenagers back into the church. We started the folk masses at St. Peter's and then at St. Thomas in N.Hartford when Father Don got transfered there. I will not allow the few priest who did wrong tarnish how I feel about the good priest who are out there and who are devoted to their communities. There are more good I keep meeting then hearing of the bad. When I moved to Constable I was afraid I'd lose that community closeness but how wrong I was. My first mass at St. Francis church in Constable, Father Vinny (Flynn), who I had met for the first time a few minutes before mass, stopped in the middle of the mass to introduce me to everyone attending. The following Sunday he had a little coffee-and get together for me down stairs after mass so I could get to know everyone. Wonderful priest much loved by his community and missed by me now. |
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Post by dgriffin on Jan 29, 2011 8:10:29 GMT -5
Bobbbiez, familiar names you've mentioned. I remember Bobby Kloster from Lourdes and I think Don MacGregor was a little older and from Blessed Sacrament. You mentioned Father Dwyer. Do you remember his first name?
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Post by jamesbreadfrombond on Jan 31, 2011 8:22:41 GMT -5
I believe Fr. Dwyer's name was William. I spent a lot of time with him as I lived 2 houses away and I was a longtime alterboy. No funny stuff there ... a good man.
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I liked Gordon. Nice family. He taught me a lot about politics but toward the end of his term he got sick and didn't do much and I think it was Bob Oderkirk (loser) beat him out for councilman. Bob lived on Georgetown. I think his ex-wife Cindy still lives there. She use to go out with Tiny Williams until Tiny died. All were into politics pretty heavy back then. 
