William E. Alfonsi

I met Bill as a teenager. He was easy to talk to and cared so much about everyone. He was always trying to make sure I didn't set low expectations for myself. He encouraged me to make the most of my life. The life he led was one of a kind and filled with so many life lessons. He believed in second chances and donated a lot of his time to helping others. When I moved away, I tried to keep in touch a couple times a year over the phone and visited him every few years. Over the last few...

Bill was probably the most interesting and unique person I have ever known. Truly, I have been blessed to have at least a few of his words of wisdom to pass on and I love repeating them because he always said what he had to say in such memorable humor. He showed me a book that one of the young people he had mentored had written and titled using one of those memorable phrases which I cannot repeat here! He enjoyed invention and was always working, always trying to make people understand...