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Obituary : Richard A. Palmieri |
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 Palmieri, Richard A. SCHENECTADY Richard A. Palmieri, 83, of No. Country Club
Drive, died Tuesday even-ing, August 19, 2008 after a brief illness. He was born
in Syracuse, N.Y. on August 10, 1925, son of the late Annibale and Antoinette
Benci venga Palmieri. He came to Schenectady as a child and was a graduate of
the Nott Terrace High School and earned his associate's degree at what is now
known as Hudson Valley Community College. Richard proudly served in the United
States Army during World War II. He served in the 180th Regimen, Company B, in
the 45th Division of the Oklahoma National Guard during the invasion of Anzio,
Italy, the liberation of Rome and Southern France on August 15, 1944, where he
was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart. His company fought in the Battle of
the Bulge and they helped to liberate prisoners from the Dachau Concentration
Camp. He did a four year apprenticeship with the Watervliet Arsenal, where he
retired in 1986 after forty years of service as a draftsman. He was a
communicant of St. John the Evangelist Church. Richard was a very hard worker,
which earned him the nickname "The Bull". Every year he could be found enjoying
the Saratoga Race Track with his seven children. Richard is predeceased by his
brother, Salvatore Palmieri. Survivors include his beloved wife, Michaelena
"Mickey" Ruggiero Palmieri, whom he married December 26, 1949; their loving
children, Ann Marie Pewarski, Esq. and her husband Glen of Garden City, L.I.,
Richard Palmieri and his wife Carmen of Essex, Vt., Salvatore Palmieri and his
wife Kathleen of Niskayuna, Annette and her husband Joseph Limbeck, Michelle Di
Tommaso, Esq. and her husband Gene, all of Rochester, Dr. Philip Palmieri and
his companion Scott McIntosh of Loudonville and Robert Palmieri, Esq. of Milano,
Italy; loving grandfather of Conor Pewarski, Matthew Pewarski, Michaela
Pewarski, Tyler Pewarski, Mariah Pewarski, Elisabeth Palmieri, Ludovica
Palmieri, Gregory Palmieri, Christine Palmieri, Philip Limbeck, Victoria
Limbeck, Alexandra Di Tommaso and Nicholas Di Tommaso; many loving nieces and
nephews. Relative and friends are invited and may call at the Rossi & Ditoro
Funeral Home, 501 Union Street, this evening from 4 to 8. Services will be held
at 8 a.m. from the Rossi & Ditoro Funeral Home, Union at N. Jay Streets, and
then to St. John the Evangelist Church, Union Street, where a Mass will be
celebrated at 9 a.m. Interment will follow in St. Anthony's Cemetery, Glenville.
Relatives and friends are invited and may call at the Rossi & Ditoro Funeral
Home, Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. Memorial contributions maybe made in Richard's
memory to Human Life International, 4 Family Life Lane, Front Royal, VA 22630 or
Schenectady County Right to Life, PO Box 931, Schenectady, NY 12309.
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