From the Staten Island Advance, Friday, October 24, 2003, page A 17
JAMES SMITH, 77
Custodial engineer for former Board of Education
Lifelong Staten Islander James H. Smith, 77, of Dongan Hills, a World War II Navy veteran and a retired school custodial engineer, died Wednesday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze.
Born in New Dorp, he settled in Dongan Hills 50 years ago.
Mr. Smith attended New Dorp High School until entering the Navy in 1943. He served as a seaman first class aboard the USS Gilligan, a destroyer escort, in the Pacific. He was discharged in 1947.
After returning from the Navy, he graduated from Robert Louis Stevenson High School in Brooklyn. He attended Wagner College and Pace University.
Mr. Smith ran the maintenance department as a school custodial engineer for a number of Island and Brooklyn schools, including PA 11 and PS 52, both Dongan Hills; Totten Intermediate School, Tottenville, and McKee and New Dorp high schools. He retired in 1987 from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn after 35 years with the former Board of Education.
In his leisure time, Mr. Smith enjoyed auto racing, woodworking, boating and hunting.
"He liked anything but sitting," said his son, James T.
Mr. Smith also enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren.
In addition to his son, James, surviving are his wife of 54 years, the former Frances Sally Carisi; his two daughters, Judy Can Pelt and Eileen Schott; seven grandchildren, and his great-grandson.
The funeral will be tomorrow from the Richmond Funeral Home, Grant City, with a mass at 20 a.m. in St. Sylvester's R.C. Church, Concord. Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
JAMES SMITH, 77
Custodial engineer for former Board of Education
Lifelong Staten Islander James H. Smith, 77, of Dongan Hills, a World War II Navy veteran and a retired school custodial engineer, died Wednesday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze.
Born in New Dorp, he settled in Dongan Hills 50 years ago.
Mr. Smith attended New Dorp High School until entering the Navy in 1943. He served as a seaman first class aboard the USS Gilligan, a destroyer escort, in the Pacific. He was discharged in 1947.
After returning from the Navy, he graduated from Robert Louis Stevenson High School in Brooklyn. He attended Wagner College and Pace University.
Mr. Smith ran the maintenance department as a school custodial engineer for a number of Island and Brooklyn schools, including PA 11 and PS 52, both Dongan Hills; Totten Intermediate School, Tottenville, and McKee and New Dorp high schools. He retired in 1987 from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn after 35 years with the former Board of Education.
In his leisure time, Mr. Smith enjoyed auto racing, woodworking, boating and hunting.
"He liked anything but sitting," said his son, James T.
Mr. Smith also enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren.
In addition to his son, James, surviving are his wife of 54 years, the former Frances Sally Carisi; his two daughters, Judy Can Pelt and Eileen Schott; seven grandchildren, and his great-grandson.
The funeral will be tomorrow from the Richmond Funeral Home, Grant City, with a mass at 20 a.m. in St. Sylvester's R.C. Church, Concord. Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
From the Staten Island Advance, Friday, October 24, 2003, page A 17
JAMES SMITH, 77
Custodial engineer for former Board of Education
Lifelong Staten Islander James H. Smith, 77, of Dongan Hills, a World War II Navy veteran and a retired school custodial engineer, died Wednesday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze.
Born in New Dorp, he settled in Dongan Hills 50 years ago.
Mr. Smith attended New Dorp High School until entering the Navy in 1943. He served as a seaman first class aboard the USS Gilligan, a destroyer escort, in the Pacific. He was discharged in 1947.
After returning from the Navy, he graduated from Robert Louis Stevenson High School in Brooklyn. He attended Wagner College and Pace University.
Mr. Smith ran the maintenance department as a school custodial engineer for a number of Island and Brooklyn schools, including PA 11 and PS 52, both Dongan Hills; Totten Intermediate School, Tottenville, and McKee and New Dorp high schools. He retired in 1987 from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn after 35 years with the former Board of Education.
In his leisure time, Mr. Smith enjoyed auto racing, woodworking, boating and hunting.
"He liked anything but sitting," said his son, James T.
Mr. Smith also enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren.
In addition to his son, James, surviving are his wife of 54 years, the former Frances Sally Carisi; his two daughters, Judy Can Pelt and Eileen Schott; seven grandchildren, and his great-grandson.
The funeral will be tomorrow from the Richmond Funeral Home, Grant City, with a mass at 20 a.m. in St. Sylvester's R.C. Church, Concord. Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
JAMES SMITH, 77
Custodial engineer for former Board of Education
Lifelong Staten Islander James H. Smith, 77, of Dongan Hills, a World War II Navy veteran and a retired school custodial engineer, died Wednesday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze.
Born in New Dorp, he settled in Dongan Hills 50 years ago.
Mr. Smith attended New Dorp High School until entering the Navy in 1943. He served as a seaman first class aboard the USS Gilligan, a destroyer escort, in the Pacific. He was discharged in 1947.
After returning from the Navy, he graduated from Robert Louis Stevenson High School in Brooklyn. He attended Wagner College and Pace University.
Mr. Smith ran the maintenance department as a school custodial engineer for a number of Island and Brooklyn schools, including PA 11 and PS 52, both Dongan Hills; Totten Intermediate School, Tottenville, and McKee and New Dorp high schools. He retired in 1987 from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn after 35 years with the former Board of Education.
In his leisure time, Mr. Smith enjoyed auto racing, woodworking, boating and hunting.
"He liked anything but sitting," said his son, James T.
Mr. Smith also enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren.
In addition to his son, James, surviving are his wife of 54 years, the former Frances Sally Carisi; his two daughters, Judy Can Pelt and Eileen Schott; seven grandchildren, and his great-grandson.
The funeral will be tomorrow from the Richmond Funeral Home, Grant City, with a mass at 20 a.m. in St. Sylvester's R.C. Church, Concord. Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
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