Richard A. Palmieri

Palmieri, Richard A. SCHENECTADY Richard A. Palmieri, 83, of No. Country Club Drive, died Tuesday even-ing, August 19, 2008 after a brief illness. He was born in Syracuse, N.Y. on August 10, 1925, son of the late Annibale and Antoinette Benci venga Palmieri. He came to Schenectady as a child and was a graduate of the Nott Terrace High School and earned his associate's degree at what is now known as Hudson Valley Community College. Richard proudly served in the United States Army during World War II. He served in the 180th Regimen, Company B, in the 45th Division of the Oklahoma National Guard during the invasion of Anzio, Italy, the liberation of Rome and Southern France on August 15, 1944, where he was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart. His company fought in the Battle of the Bulge and they helped to liberate prisoners from the Dachau Concentration Camp. He did a four year apprenticeship with the Watervliet Arsenal, where he retired in 1986 after forty years of service as a draftsman. He was a communicant of St. John the Evangelist Church. Richard was a very hard worker, which earned him the nickname "The Bull". Every year he could be found enjoying the Saratoga Race Track with his seven children. Richard is predeceased by his brother, Salvatore Palmieri. Survivors include his beloved wife, Michaelena "Mickey" Ruggiero Palmieri, whom he married December 26, 1949; their loving children, Ann Marie Pewarski, Esq. and her husband Glen of Garden City, L.I., Richard Palmieri and his wife Carmen of Essex, Vt., Salvatore Palmieri and his wife Kathleen of Niskayuna, Annette and her husband Joseph Limbeck, Michelle Di Tommaso, Esq. and her husband Gene, all of Rochester, Dr. Philip Palmieri and his companion Scott McIntosh of Loudonville and Robert Palmieri, Esq. of Milano, Italy; loving grandfather of Conor Pewarski, Matthew Pewarski, Michaela Pewarski, Tyler Pewarski, Mariah Pewarski, Elisabeth Palmieri, Ludovica Palmieri, Gregory Palmieri, Christine Palmieri, Philip Limbeck, Victoria Limbeck, Alexandra Di Tommaso and Nicholas Di Tommaso; many loving nieces and nephews. Relative and friends are invited and may call at the Rossi & Ditoro Funeral Home, 501 Union Street, this evening from 4 to 8. Services will be held at 8 a.m. from the Rossi & Ditoro Funeral Home, Union at N. Jay Streets, and then to St. John the Evangelist Church, Union Street, where a Mass will be celebrated at 9 a.m. Interment will follow in St. Anthony's Cemetery, Glenville. Relatives and friends are invited and may call at the Rossi & Ditoro Funeral Home, Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. Memorial contributions maybe made in Richard's memory to Human Life International, 4 Family Life Lane, Front Royal, VA 22630 or Schenectady County Right to Life, PO Box 931, Schenectady, NY 12309.