"James M. Furey, age 72, of Rock Hill, N.Y., died Tuesday May 2, 2005 at his former home in New City, N.Y. after a courageous battle with cancer.
He was born on July 2, 1932 in Nyack Hospital to the late Thomas F. Furey and Jane P. Conboy, formerly of South Nyack, N.Y.
He attended St. Ann's Catholic Elementary School and graduated from Nyack High School in 1950. Jim served on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1950 to 1952 during the Korean Conflict, attaining the rank of Corporal, and was Honorably Discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves in 1959. On May 7, 1955, he was joined in marriage to Virginia A. D'Auria at St. Ann's Church in Nyack.
Jim and Ginny lived first on Elysian Ave. in So. Nyack and then on High Avenue in Nyack until 1958, when they moved to Virginia Street in New City, N.Y. Jim worked for the New York Telephone Company for 35 years, starting as a splicer's helper in 1954 and retiring as an installation and repair foreman in 1989. Upon his retirement from the telephone company, Jim founded Reliance Telephone Company, Inc., providing communications installation, repair and maintenance services to the Rockland County Government and SUNY Rockland Community College, which he personally ran until 1999, and continued working for until shortly before his illness in 2005.
In 1992, Jim and Ginny moved to Rock Hill, N.Y. on Wanaksink Lake, where the Furey family had maintained various summer residences since the 1940's. Jim served as Director of the Lake Planning Board; the Lake Board of Directors; and as Lake President from 1996 to 1998, and continued as Director until the time of his passing. He was also a member of the Telephone Company Pioneers and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Jim was an avid boater and sailor, and enjoyed fishing on the lake with his grandchildren.
Jim is survived by his wife of fifty years, Virginia; his two sons and their wives, Keith and Deanna Furey of New City, N.Y., and Thomas and Karen Furey of Bellbrook, Ohio; eight grandchildren: Dominique, Frank, James, Michael, and Marianne of New City, N.Y., and Nicholas, Megan and Liam of Bellbrook, Ohio; and one brother, John and his wife, Sara, also of Rock Hill, N.Y. He is further survived by his aunt, Marge Furey of Nyack, N.Y.; five cousins; nine nieces and nephews; 13 grandnieces and nephews; numerous other relatives and many, many friends.
Visitation hours are Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at Hanneman Funeral Home, 88 So. Broadway, Nyack, N.Y. The Funeral Mass is on Friday at 11:00 AM at St. Ann's Catholic Church, Nyack, N.Y.
The family requests that memorial donations be made to: United Hospice of Rockland, Inc., 11 Stokum La., New City, NY 10956.
Care and services have been entrusted by the family to Hanneman Funeral Home."
Published in the Times Herald-Record on 5/5/2005.
He was born on July 2, 1932 in Nyack Hospital to the late Thomas F. Furey and Jane P. Conboy, formerly of South Nyack, N.Y.
He attended St. Ann's Catholic Elementary School and graduated from Nyack High School in 1950. Jim served on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1950 to 1952 during the Korean Conflict, attaining the rank of Corporal, and was Honorably Discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves in 1959. On May 7, 1955, he was joined in marriage to Virginia A. D'Auria at St. Ann's Church in Nyack.
Jim and Ginny lived first on Elysian Ave. in So. Nyack and then on High Avenue in Nyack until 1958, when they moved to Virginia Street in New City, N.Y. Jim worked for the New York Telephone Company for 35 years, starting as a splicer's helper in 1954 and retiring as an installation and repair foreman in 1989. Upon his retirement from the telephone company, Jim founded Reliance Telephone Company, Inc., providing communications installation, repair and maintenance services to the Rockland County Government and SUNY Rockland Community College, which he personally ran until 1999, and continued working for until shortly before his illness in 2005.
In 1992, Jim and Ginny moved to Rock Hill, N.Y. on Wanaksink Lake, where the Furey family had maintained various summer residences since the 1940's. Jim served as Director of the Lake Planning Board; the Lake Board of Directors; and as Lake President from 1996 to 1998, and continued as Director until the time of his passing. He was also a member of the Telephone Company Pioneers and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Jim was an avid boater and sailor, and enjoyed fishing on the lake with his grandchildren.
Jim is survived by his wife of fifty years, Virginia; his two sons and their wives, Keith and Deanna Furey of New City, N.Y., and Thomas and Karen Furey of Bellbrook, Ohio; eight grandchildren: Dominique, Frank, James, Michael, and Marianne of New City, N.Y., and Nicholas, Megan and Liam of Bellbrook, Ohio; and one brother, John and his wife, Sara, also of Rock Hill, N.Y. He is further survived by his aunt, Marge Furey of Nyack, N.Y.; five cousins; nine nieces and nephews; 13 grandnieces and nephews; numerous other relatives and many, many friends.
Visitation hours are Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at Hanneman Funeral Home, 88 So. Broadway, Nyack, N.Y. The Funeral Mass is on Friday at 11:00 AM at St. Ann's Catholic Church, Nyack, N.Y.
The family requests that memorial donations be made to: United Hospice of Rockland, Inc., 11 Stokum La., New City, NY 10956.
Care and services have been entrusted by the family to Hanneman Funeral Home."
Published in the Times Herald-Record on 5/5/2005.
"James M. Furey, age 72, of Rock Hill, N.Y., died Tuesday May 2, 2005 at his former home in New City, N.Y. after a courageous battle with cancer.
He was born on July 2, 1932 in Nyack Hospital to the late Thomas F. Furey and Jane P. Conboy, formerly of South Nyack, N.Y.
He attended St. Ann's Catholic Elementary School and graduated from Nyack High School in 1950. Jim served on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1950 to 1952 during the Korean Conflict, attaining the rank of Corporal, and was Honorably Discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves in 1959. On May 7, 1955, he was joined in marriage to Virginia A. D'Auria at St. Ann's Church in Nyack.
Jim and Ginny lived first on Elysian Ave. in So. Nyack and then on High Avenue in Nyack until 1958, when they moved to Virginia Street in New City, N.Y. Jim worked for the New York Telephone Company for 35 years, starting as a splicer's helper in 1954 and retiring as an installation and repair foreman in 1989. Upon his retirement from the telephone company, Jim founded Reliance Telephone Company, Inc., providing communications installation, repair and maintenance services to the Rockland County Government and SUNY Rockland Community College, which he personally ran until 1999, and continued working for until shortly before his illness in 2005.
In 1992, Jim and Ginny moved to Rock Hill, N.Y. on Wanaksink Lake, where the Furey family had maintained various summer residences since the 1940's. Jim served as Director of the Lake Planning Board; the Lake Board of Directors; and as Lake President from 1996 to 1998, and continued as Director until the time of his passing. He was also a member of the Telephone Company Pioneers and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Jim was an avid boater and sailor, and enjoyed fishing on the lake with his grandchildren.
Jim is survived by his wife of fifty years, Virginia; his two sons and their wives, Keith and Deanna Furey of New City, N.Y., and Thomas and Karen Furey of Bellbrook, Ohio; eight grandchildren: Dominique, Frank, James, Michael, and Marianne of New City, N.Y., and Nicholas, Megan and Liam of Bellbrook, Ohio; and one brother, John and his wife, Sara, also of Rock Hill, N.Y. He is further survived by his aunt, Marge Furey of Nyack, N.Y.; five cousins; nine nieces and nephews; 13 grandnieces and nephews; numerous other relatives and many, many friends.
Visitation hours are Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at Hanneman Funeral Home, 88 So. Broadway, Nyack, N.Y. The Funeral Mass is on Friday at 11:00 AM at St. Ann's Catholic Church, Nyack, N.Y.
The family requests that memorial donations be made to: United Hospice of Rockland, Inc., 11 Stokum La., New City, NY 10956.
Care and services have been entrusted by the family to Hanneman Funeral Home."
Published in the Times Herald-Record on 5/5/2005.
He was born on July 2, 1932 in Nyack Hospital to the late Thomas F. Furey and Jane P. Conboy, formerly of South Nyack, N.Y.
He attended St. Ann's Catholic Elementary School and graduated from Nyack High School in 1950. Jim served on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1950 to 1952 during the Korean Conflict, attaining the rank of Corporal, and was Honorably Discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves in 1959. On May 7, 1955, he was joined in marriage to Virginia A. D'Auria at St. Ann's Church in Nyack.
Jim and Ginny lived first on Elysian Ave. in So. Nyack and then on High Avenue in Nyack until 1958, when they moved to Virginia Street in New City, N.Y. Jim worked for the New York Telephone Company for 35 years, starting as a splicer's helper in 1954 and retiring as an installation and repair foreman in 1989. Upon his retirement from the telephone company, Jim founded Reliance Telephone Company, Inc., providing communications installation, repair and maintenance services to the Rockland County Government and SUNY Rockland Community College, which he personally ran until 1999, and continued working for until shortly before his illness in 2005.
In 1992, Jim and Ginny moved to Rock Hill, N.Y. on Wanaksink Lake, where the Furey family had maintained various summer residences since the 1940's. Jim served as Director of the Lake Planning Board; the Lake Board of Directors; and as Lake President from 1996 to 1998, and continued as Director until the time of his passing. He was also a member of the Telephone Company Pioneers and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Jim was an avid boater and sailor, and enjoyed fishing on the lake with his grandchildren.
Jim is survived by his wife of fifty years, Virginia; his two sons and their wives, Keith and Deanna Furey of New City, N.Y., and Thomas and Karen Furey of Bellbrook, Ohio; eight grandchildren: Dominique, Frank, James, Michael, and Marianne of New City, N.Y., and Nicholas, Megan and Liam of Bellbrook, Ohio; and one brother, John and his wife, Sara, also of Rock Hill, N.Y. He is further survived by his aunt, Marge Furey of Nyack, N.Y.; five cousins; nine nieces and nephews; 13 grandnieces and nephews; numerous other relatives and many, many friends.
Visitation hours are Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at Hanneman Funeral Home, 88 So. Broadway, Nyack, N.Y. The Funeral Mass is on Friday at 11:00 AM at St. Ann's Catholic Church, Nyack, N.Y.
The family requests that memorial donations be made to: United Hospice of Rockland, Inc., 11 Stokum La., New City, NY 10956.
Care and services have been entrusted by the family to Hanneman Funeral Home."
Published in the Times Herald-Record on 5/5/2005.
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