TOM HUNSICKER, AL'S SON, JOINS TOO-LARGE BJ CROWD IN HEAVEN

Tom Hunsicker, son of the late BJ printer Al Hunsicker, passed away Friday, March 18. Al passed away in 2015.

Tom’s sister, Pam Hunsicker Coy of Norton, and my daughter, Monnie Ann, attended Falls High together. Pam’s father-in-law, the late Al Coy, and I were involved in the Cuyahoga Falls Amateur Baseball Association, often at CFABA board meetings when Al and his best friend, the late Glenn Winsett, were on the CFABA board and in charge of cooking hamburgers during Falls High baseball doubeheaders at Waterworks Park.

 

Tom’s other sister is Brenda Hunsicker Hoover.

 

Al was at the BJ for 32 years. I was there for 26, retiring in 1996.

 

I was at a 2009 Papa Joe’s monthly gathering of BJ retirees that included Dave Boerner, Tom Moore, Harry Liggett, Calvin Deshong, Gene McClellan, Al Hunsicker, Ken Wright and Joe Catalano. Tom Hunsicker will find his father in Heaven having gatherings with Dave, Tom, Harry, Cal, Gene, Ken and Joe. Too many gone too soon. Dammit!

 

Al’s wife, Lillian, passed away in 2021.

 

Tom’s obituary:

 

Thomas W. Hunsicker, 56, of Cuyahoga Falls, passed away on March 18, 2022. He was born in Akron on December 8, 1965 to the late Alfred and Lillian Hunsicker. Tom lived in San Antonio for the past twenty plus years, where he worked as a network engineer and vice president at Wells Fargo.

Tom played recreational volleyball for many years and loved dogs, particularly the labrador retrievers that he rescued. He was an avid sports fan of San Antonio and Cleveland teams.

In addition to his parents, Tom was preceded in death by his grandparents and his great-niece, Raegan.

He will be dearly missed by his sisters, Brenda (Dale) Hoover and Pamela (Don) Coy; niece, Jillian (Brandon) Foster; nephews, Ryan (Laura) Coy, Jeremy Hoover, and Jeffrey Hoover; and thirteen great-nieces and great-nephews.

Visitation will be held on Friday, March 25, 2022 from 5-7 followed by a 7:00 p.m. memorial service at NEWCOMER FUNERAL HOME, 131 N. Canton Rd., Akron. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the San Antonio Humane Society, 4804 Fredericksburg Rd., San Antonio, Texas 78229 .