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Hi Darren, Love from all of us at Leslie's. A beautiful day full of memories. Love, "your family".
Dale Stafford Bohan
September 13, 2025
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Darren C. Bohan
New York, New York
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Send FlowersBanjos and Big Dreams
Like so many New Yorkers, there was more to Darren Bohan than met the eye. By day he was a temp and for the past few months he worked on the 102nd floor of 2 World Trade Center, where he crunched numbers for the Aon Corporation. But Mr. Bohan would rather have been plucking a banjo or strumming his guitar, jamming with friends until late at night.
Alison Kelley, his girlfriend, said he hoped to parlay his musical talents into a full-time job, perhaps as a music teacher at a public school. "Music was so important to him," she said.
Ms. Kelley, also a banjo player, spent many hours playing with Mr. Bohan. Their repertory ran from Irish ballads to songs by the rock band Kiss to 19th-century American roots music. "We'd play just about anything," Ms. Kelley said. The two had been inseparable since meeting at a music jam in Brooklyn seven months ago.
Laid back, gentle and unpretentious, Mr. Bohan, 34, tried not to gripe too much about his day job, although he was not thrilled to be working 102 stories off the ground. "He didn't like being so unnaturally high up, in a place where something terrible happened before," she said. "But he'd just try to tell people it was a nice view."
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Miss you so much, Darren Love Dad and Dale 2025
Dale Stafford Bohan
September 13, 2025
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Another year has passed, my friend, and there wasn't a moment you weren't in my heart or mind, of that of our other friends. I know you are okay because of the cosmic message I experienced at Grand Central Station, years ago. I had come to NYC for the first time and was looking to catch my train for work. So many fliers of young, beautiful people missing in the accident.....But I walked right up to yours. What are the odds? I'd love to see how you are as a 59-year-old now- but for now, I...
Kathleen Spillane
September 13, 2025
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Hi Darren, 2025 and we all miss you so much. We gathered at Leslie's and shared memories all day. Love, Dad and Dale
Dale Stafford Bohan
September 13, 2025
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Hey Darren! It´s 24 years today. Longer than that since I saw you last. I will always remember you as my best cabin mate in Wawona. And I remember jamming with your band at the Community Center. Music brings people together. I hope it always will. I know you´re jamming out there in the aether somewhere.
Jon Meek
September 11, 2025
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Hi Darren, I had Pandora on the other day, TAKE ME TO THE RIVER came on, followed by BAD TO THE BONE. Flash back to the Wawona Community Center you, Mark and that kid who played the drums, The Axe Murders. Crazy night, there were a lot of music filled crazy nights. Did you have a hand in making those song play back to back...I think you did. Made me smile, I was thinking of you too. Your birthday is coming up 58, I imagine you with a bit of grey hair which of course you'd be handsome,...
Tammy Hays
September 14, 2024 | Friend
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Hi Darren, We missed you so much yesterday, we were together at Leslie's. Barbara and Harry joined us; we had the Cape Cod Board on her patio. We told stories and laughed. We called you "adventurous". Love, Dad & Dale
Dale
September 12, 2024
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Hi, Darren. This August, I swam in the Long Island Sound, the Peconic Bay, a lake in New Jersey, and a reservoir in some town called Sparrow Bush, NY. Is it because in the back of my mind I know 9-11 is coming that every August I feel totally compelled to run around, trying to do everything? We miss you so, so much. We carry you with us; trying to do it all.
Pamela Grossman
September 11, 2024 | Friend
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Happy Birthday, Darren. A good day for your music! Love, Dad and Dale
Dale
September 29, 2023
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