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April 14, 2010 · 2:57 am

Honoring my friend Mary Tomaselli

Our Beautiful Friend: Mary Tomaselli

UPDATE (MARCH 17, 2011)–I wrote this post on this blog almost one year ago to help bring awareness to the plight of Mary Tomaselli and the benefit planned to raise funds for her medical care. I first heard that Mary Tomaselli died on Facebook perhaps last night sometime, if so, our condolences to her family . I saw Mary one night three months ago at Wegmans and we talked about getting together. I was happy to see her. She looked great, but we never got together and how I wished we had now that she passed and like many of her friends I feel the pain and I’m sad…

Mary Tomaselli has an infectious personality someone you remember because she is a caring, warm and a compassionate soul, treating all she comes into contact with dignity and respect regardless of their ethnicity, colour, or social-class background.

If she likes you and I know she liked me, she’ll invite you to her home as she did with me and she offered the warm hospitality many experience at La Tee Da her restaurant on Allen Street in Buffalo, New York.

I met Mary before I had my daughter Corrie now twenty-three years old , so I met her in the mid-eighties when she worked at the Lexington Coop. I stayed in contact with her off and on and dropped in to see her when she owned the dry cleaning business on Allen. In fact, Mary is a business entrepreneur and has been a role model for other women in the area.

Mary has cancer specifically colon cancer a story she wrote about in her blog Marys Angels Online where she discussed the experience and the impact it’s having on her life, family, and friends.

On Sunday, April 18, 2010, from 2 PM to 6 PM there is a Benefit for Mary at Harry’s Habour Grille. Donation is $30.00. If you need further information call 716 472-2352. If you can’t make it send the donation in care of All State Insurance, 491 Delaware Avenue, 14202.

As her daughter affectionately posted a letter on the blog:

“MY MOTHER TOUCHES SO MANY PEOPLE IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS THAT I FIRMLY BELIEVE THIS IS A MESSAGE.”

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April 14, 2010 · 12:16 am

Lynne Slepian a mother to remember on mother’s day

Dr. Barnett Slepian (Photo credit: J.P. McCoy, Associated Press

Lynne Slepian (Photo credit: Buffalo News

“I heard a popping noise. He looked at me and thought he’d been shot. I rushed over to him. He fell against me and then fell to the floor. I yelled to my oldest son. One of us called 911 and we grabbed some dish towels and we tried to stop the bleeding.” –Lynne Slepian

Dr. Barnett and Lynne Slepian attended services at Temple Beth El in memory of the anniversary of the death of Dr. Slepian’s father, Philip the night of his murder. After the couple returned home around 10 P.M., Mrs. Slepian recalled, they and their two youngest sons were in the large kitchen.

”I heard this loud pop,” she said. ”Then he went to the ground, and that was it,” she said. ”I think he bled out in 30 seconds. I never got a chance to say goodbye. All I did was yell at my kids to leave the room and watch my 15-year-old son scramble for towels to stop the bleeding.” She added, ”Hopefully, that memory will fade.”

Dr. Barnett Slepian executed October 23, 1998 in front of his family while in his kitchen preparing himself a meal a sniper’s bullet struck and killed him. This article “My Father’s Abortion War” appeared in the New York Times on January 22, 2006, the author Eyal Press wrote a book about the experience since Dr. Slepian covered deliveries for his father . The article was ” adapted from his book, “Absolute Convictions: My Father, a City and the Conflict That Divided America,” published by Henry Holt.

“On Oct. 23, 1998, a Friday evening, at about 6, Barnett Slepian, an obstetric gynecologist from Amherst, N.Y., called my parents’ home. He was phoning because, that weekend, as on every third weekend of the month, he was scheduled to cover deliveries for my father. A few hours later, after attending a memorial service commemorating the death of his father, as he stood in his kitchen waiting for a bowl of split-pea soup to heat in the microwave, Dr. Slepian was shot in the back by a sniper hiding in the wooded area behind his home. Within a few hours he was pronounced dead…”

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April 12, 2010 · 4:05 pm