Month: February 2011

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 By Kathy Daley LIBERTY—Lawrence Stier graduated from the best law school in the nation but he didn’t flaunt it and those he encountered wouldn’t have guessed it. “Larry was friendly, warm and low-key, so most people had no idea he graduated from Harvard Law School,” said local attorney Garry Greenwald. “He was a superb attorney, very, very bright, a fabulous judge and a decent man,” Greenwald noted. You could tell when had to sentence someone to jail that it was difficult for him. But he knew that he had to apply the law.” Stier, age 83, of Liberty died Sunday morning of complications from cancer. Continue reading

This is a little longer version of the eulogy I gave for my father at his funeral today. I think he would have liked it although I can hear his voice saying, “It’s too long.” I want to tell you some things about my father’s life. But, before I do, I want to say something about how he died. As most of you know, he had been sick with pancreatic cancer since May. Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease for which there is no cure. Death usually comes very quickly. My father lived almost ten months. He had two different rounds of chemotherapy. The first round seemed to have slowed the disease for a time but ultimately stopped working. The second round worked for a while, too, but then he had a bad reaction to it. That, and the spread of the disease, is probably what weakened him so much… Continue reading