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Richard Desrochers Obituary

Desrochers, Richard Alan
FLANDERS, N.J. - Richard Alan Desrochers, of Flanders, N.J., and formerly of Ballston Lake, N.Y., passed away peacefully at his home on August 30, 2024, a month shy of his 85th birthday.
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Published by Albany Times Union on Sep. 10, 2024.

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April 25, 2025

May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.

Dale Ordes

September 10, 2024

I remember Dick Desrochers as a fellow worker with whom I worked in a large bureaucracy and who helped me get through that bureaucracy by sharing his good nature and intelligence. Goodbye Dick ... no more staff meetings.
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