FROM THE LEFT, RAY MOSHER, DAVID MOSHER, MINERVA MOSHER DEAN, RON MOSHER, TERRY MOSHER
This is the front line of the Mosher extended family. Minerva Mosher Dean died in 1981, leaving just four of us on the front lines. Ray has had open-heart surgery and colon cancer surgery in the last five months and is recovering at home in Richburg, NY where this picture was taken in 2000 on my birthday. David is the No. 11 all-time on the basketball career scoring ladder in Portville Central School history and should be in the school’s Hall of Fame, and may be next year. David flew in the Phantom F-4 fighter jet in the Navy and is a retired engineer who worked on secret government radar for much of his working career. Ray was a longtime engineer who traveled the world for his job. Ron coached numerous sports as a teacher/coach, including 25 years of football at one school, and will be inducted into the Portville Central School Hall of Fame on Sept. 9 before a school football game. Ron and David were both four-sport athletes. Ray was a two-sport athlete, who probably should also be in the Hall of Fame, although I was too young to remember enough to push for him to be nominated. I do remember Ray belting a home run over the high school right field fence, across a church parking lot, and over the steeple of the church and into the street in front of the church. Ray, up until his surgery, was very active in keeping up the 8-bedroom house in Richburg, including cutting and storing around 40 chords of wood each fall for his wood-burning furnace. As you can see in this picture, Ray and David did not do a job job of hiding their beer. Minerva was better at it. Ron and I don’t drink, so we had nothing to hide. Well, I might have hidden my ugly face if I could. That’s it. A good picture that will likely prove a mystery when a younger relative stumbles across it some years down the road. Who are they? will be the cry. I don’t know, will come the answer. Throw it out will come a third answer. But that’s life. I have old family photos that I have no clue who they are. So sad. But, again, that is life. Keep on smiling. Have a great day. You are loved.