Daniel B. Walsh

Walsh, Daniel B. ALBANY Daniel B. Walsh, 83, passed away on December 21, 2018, after a long illness. Dan was the beloved husband of Susan (nee Frohe); son of Irish immigrants, the late Pierce Walsh and Mary Cronin Walsh; father of Courtney Walsh and Meghan Heister (Joseph); and grandfather of Madeline, Daniel and Sophia Heister. Dan was predeceased by his siblings Kathryn Neubert, Josephine Brennan, Virginia Piccioli and Joseph Walsh. Dan was a native of Olean, N.Y. and a graduate of St. Bonaventure University. He served a two-year Army tour in Korea. The next nine years, he taught and coached basketball at Archbishop Walsh and Franklinville Central Schools. He then pursued a career in politics, serving on the county legislature as minority leader. In 1972, he set his sights on the State Assembly and won his campaign. In 1979, he was asked by speaker Stanley Fink to be the first western New York Democrat to be majority leader of the Assembly. Dan left the Assembly in 1987 to head the Business Council of N.Y.S. until he retired in 2006. Dan served on various boards during his career including St. Bonaventure Board of Trustees, Albany Medical Center, Evergreen Bank and the N.Y.S. Trooper Foundation as well as several others. An avid golfer throughout his life, he was a longtime member of Schuyler Meadows Club and the Fort Orange Club. Visitation will be held Friday, January 4, at Applebee Funeral Home, 403 Kenwood Ave., Delmar from 5 to 7 p.m. A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Saturday, January 5, in Historic St. Mary's Church on Capitol Hill, corner of Lodge and Pine Streets, Albany. Interment will be at a later date in the Buffalo area. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Dan's memory may be made to the Massry Family Children's Emergency Center at Albany Medical Center, 43 New Scotland Ave., Albany, NY, 12208 or the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society, 3 Oakland Ave., Menands, NY, 12204. applebeefuneralhome.com