Samuel B. Hanser

Sam would have been 43 today. We lost him 15 years ago on January 15th, just shy of his 28th birthday. He elevated the mood of every room he walked into. His patience with me and the emotional roller coaster I was always on made him the singular reason I was mentally OK. My last memories of him were him counseling me on my worst break up to this day. I selfishly miss him for myself but the world was so much better with him in it. He truly made a difference while he was here. Sam had 5...

Little Sammy I surely miss you. I will never forget the day I was parked in Newton working as a technician for Verizon and I was just perplexed why you weren´t getting back to me because that wasn´t your style. Even when you went to Parsons in NYC and eventually on to San Francisco you always returned my texts or calls, so when I googled your name from my work truck while grabbing a coffee in Newton Sq and came across your obituary I was truly at a loss for words. You were born with this...

Wow! 15 years and I still think about you all the time and my love for you hasn't diminished.

"Little" Sammy another year has passed and yet I don´t miss you any less only more. Your positive upbeat personality always shined brightly through any negativity present in the room. -Mark Florentino Charlestown, MA

He will always be known to me as "Little" Sammy but it had nothing to do with his huge "Stature" of a Personality. All Sammy had to do was simply walk into a room and the negativity in that room would immediately be vacuumed out. From my very first self introduction to him in the pool room of Buzz nightclub in Boston, never once in my entire life did I bear witness to Sammy dragging down a room´s energy. I´ve not seen "Little" Sammy´s match to this day some 13 years later; nor, do I ever...