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Article: "MORE THAN A POLITICAL ICON'; MOURNERS RECALL MEL ZIMMER: FATHER, FRIEND.(Local)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- January 10, 2002
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Byline: Teri Weaver Staff writer
Life, according to Mel Zimmer:
Each parent has the right to embarrass his children at any time, even if that means skating down the aisles of Wegmans in house slippers.
Banana splits are best during blizzards.
Every child should learn to spit for distance.
And, according to his daughter Leslie Zimmer Herrick, "Every person, no matter what their station in life, should learn to do the chicken dance."
Nearly 150 of Zimmer's relatives and friends gathered Wednesday morning at St. John the Baptist Church to remember the former assemblyman. Zimmer, 63, died Friday night after a car struck ...