Peter McCoy III

Peter F. McCoy III, age 65, died New Year's Day, 2016 at the Bradford Manor where he resided for the past several weeks.
A 13-year cancer survivor, he fought a valiant and courageous battle with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Leukemia. A lifelong Bradford resident, he was born June 15, 1950, son of the late Peter F. McCoy Jr., who died in 1977, and Dorothea B. McCoy who died in 2008.
A 1968 graduate of Bradford Area High School, Peter also graduated from St. Bonaventure University earning both his Bachelor and Master's degrees in education. He enjoyed a 27-year teaching career at Ellicottville Central School, Ellicottville, N.Y., retiring in 2002 due to disability.
Prior to his illness, he was also a partner with his mother in the operation of 12 apartments in five buildings in the Bradford area.
Peter was an avid sailor and crewed many summers in 20-foot class one-design sailboat races at Chautauqua Lake. He once camped and canoed the length of the Allegheny River from the headwaters to Pittsburgh. His newest enjoyment was riding his Can-Am motorcycle.
He was a lifelong member of St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church and a member of the Bradford Township Lion's Club. A very generous man, who put the welfare of others ahead of himself, Peter once voluntarily paid out thousands of dollars for a full set of dentures for a person he saw struggling to eat at the Friendship Table. Peter's generosity was taken advantage of at times, but he never lost faith in humanity.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two sisters, Mary Janice McCarthy in 1996, and Martha Lou Bouchard in 2009 and a brother-in-law Robert Lee Rocheleau in 2007.
Survivors include a sister Virginia Rocheleau of San Diego, Calif.; a brother Michael (Diane) McCoy of Mayville, N.Y.; two brothers-in-law, Marcian (Cheryl) Bouchard of Washington, N.C., and Terrence McCarthy of Bay Village, Ohio; eight nieces and nephews and many grandnieces and grandnephews. Survivors also include his good friends Gisele Magnella, Peter Peckyno, John Coder, Rick Frederick, Gary Bentley and Dan Costello who faithfully drove him to his chemo and treatments, and all his many friends at Derrick City Diner who supported him to the end.
There will be no visitation. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Jan. 16 at 11 a.m. at St. Bernard Catholic Church, with the Rev. Raymond Gramata as celebrant.
Inurnment is to immediately follow at St. Bernard Cemetery.
Memorial gifts, if desired, may be made to St. Bernard Elementary & Middle School, 450 West Washington St, Bradford, PA 16701.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the care of the Mascho Funeral Home Inc.
Online condolences can be expressed at www.maschofuneral.com