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Lorraine Silva, 1929-2009
by Mark Silva
For Lorraine Silva, the notion of devotion to family -- her husband Dan of 56 years, her two children, their wives, her four grandchildren, their spouses and her one greatgrandson, baby Noah, born just last year -- was as simple as the song which she led for the children of the nursery school she taught at the church where she worshipped for many years:
"It's raining on the sidewalks, it's raining on the street. I'll go out with my raincoat on, and let it rain on me."
She played the piano, too.
The world's greatest teacher passed away suddenly last night, at the age of 80, mercifully averting any pain but leaving holes in the hearts of a farflung community of family and friends greater than even she might realize. She always put everyone else first.
Born Lorraine Palmisano in Newark, N.J., she was raised in Cambridge, Mass., where she met her husband-to-be as teenagers. She attended Cambridge Latin. He was the quarterback at Rindge Tech. She went to Simmons College and was trained as a schoolteacher. He went into the Marines, and on to Boston University.
They moved to Schenectady, N.Y., in the mid-1950s for his job at General Electric, where he long worked as a manager of manufacturing. He has retired, happily and healthfully, for many more years. She taught at Trinity Methodist Church's nursery school -- she was the school, one class a year.
They raised two boys, one seven years younger than the other. The younger, Steven, was taken by an accident at work many years later. His two boys are fine and tall young men today. The older son, who writes here, has two grown "children'' as well, and the grandson.
We called it "GE in the sky," that lighted logo atop the main building of the sprawling factory downtown which for decades was the lifeblood of this community in the Mohawk Valley. Growing up in the 1950s, in a family such as this, may be one of the great privileges of modern times. No one, anywhere, had better parents. And their legacy is simple: Our daughter now is the kind of mother that our mother was.
Night came swiftly for our dear mother, and, while we are reluctant to burden others with personal news, we feel an explanation is owed for what will be a moment of silence in these pages, with this contributor, at least. We hope, also, that a moment of reflection offers a reminder to remember, always, the departed ones we love, and embrace and cherish, often, the ones still with us.
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