Stanley Lessoff

Stanley Lessoff, 78, beloved husband of Susan (Geary) Lessoff of Vernon, passed from this life peacefully on Friday, September 29, 2006, after a determined battle with cancer.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, son of the late Alexander and Frances (Palinofsky) Lessoff, he grew up in Milton and lived in Quincy and New Bedford before moving to Vernon 25 years ago. Prior to his retirement in July 2006, Stanley was a teacher at Rockville High School for 25 years. He previously taught at New Bedford High School for seven years and before that had a varied career in business. He was a U. S. Army veteran, having been in the occupying army in Japan at the end of World War II. He was a graduate of Northeastern Univer-sity, Boston, Massachusetts, Class of 1953. He was a member of Congregation B'Nai Israel in Vernon, and he also served on their Finance Committee. Stanley was a member of the Rockville High Teachers Club, the Connecticut Business Educators' Board of Directors, serving as treasurer for a number of years, a member of the Delta Pi Epsilon, Business Educators' Honor Society, a member of the Board of Directors at Ryefield and Quail Hollow Condo Complexes, Treasurer of the Connecticut Science Fair and also served on the Board of Directors, and was a member of the Democratic Town Committee. He taught the wood badge course for the Boy Scouts, whom he served for many years as an adult leader. He was a member of Northeastern University Alumni and helped with recruitment. He was an idealistic, outgoing person who enjoyed working with youth. His would strike up conversations with people anywhere, as he loved to connect. He loved to travel. He was endlessly curious. He loved to be busy and involved. He loved life so much that he resisted his illness until the end. He's been called the Energizer Bunny by colleagues at work, because through all his health problems he always bounced back.

Besides his loving wife of 26 years, Stanley is survived by a daughter, Robin C. Lessoff-Perry, MD, and her husband R. Scott of Burlington, Vt, a son, Alan H. Lessoff, PhD, and his wife Mineke Reinders of Bloomington, Ill., four grandchildren, Benjamin (and his wife Jessica) and Rachel Esancy, Adrienne Perry, and Audrey Lessoff; two great grandchildren, Emily and William Esancy; a sister, Barbara Epstein of Canton, Mass.; a sister-in-law, Vera Lessoff of Potomac, Md.; four nephews and a niece. Besides his parents, Stanley was predeceased by a brother, Howard, and a brother-in-law, Jason Epstein.

Funeral services will be held on Sunday, October 1, 2006, 9 a.m. at the Ladd-Turkington & Carmon Funeral Home, 551 Talcottville Road (Rt. 83), Vernon. Interment will follow in Edith Road Memorial Park, South Windsor with military honors.

His family will receive friends at the funeral home for memorial calling hours on Sunday, from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Memorial contribution in his memory may be made to the Connecticut Science Fair, c/o Wynn Muller, 45 Coles Road, Cromwell, CT 06416 or to the American Lung Association, 45 Ash Street, East Hartford, CT 06108-3272.

Shiva will be observed at the family home on Tuesday, October 3, 2006, from 5 to 9 p.m.

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