Article: Stanley James Staba Jr., 1941-2008.(IN MEMORIAM)

You don't realize how inadequate the traditional newspaper obituary really is until you read your father's.

This isn't a knock on the Batavia Daily News or the Buffalo News, which published factually accurate, properly spelled summaries of the life of Stanley James Staba Jr. following his death on April 14.

Each included all the basic information supplied by the family and no one we dealt with at either paper could have been nicer about it.

But obituary writers usually don't know their subjects closely, if at all, nor do they have space available to tell more of the story.

Well, I did and I do, so here goes.

Stanley J. Staba ...

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