Greenfield Center, NY - Alphonse J. Dominick, of Bockes Road, passed away unexpectedly Friday (May 21, 2010) at his residence. He was 88. Born on Feb. 28, 1922 in Saratoga Springs, NY, a son of Italian immigrants, the late Joseph and Genevieve (Peters) Dominick. He left school before graduating to work in a lumber camp in the Adirondacks, as so many young men did during the Great Depression, to help support their families. He lived and worked beside grown lumberjacks, cutting and skidding out logs over the snow, with a team of work horses. On Saturdays, they would ride the last load of logs into town where he would give his pay to his mother and go off to the square dance to play mandolin in the band and dance when he wasn't playing. When the United States entered World War Two, he joined the Army. He was trained as a combat engineer and sent to the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. He fought in the battle of Attu in May, 1943 and in the battle of Kiska in August, 1943. He was honorably discharged in December, 1945. In 1946, he married Christine Arpey in Saint Peter's Church on Broadway, Saratoga Springs and they remained married until her death in 2005. He worked at American Locomotive while studying under the GI bill and received a degree in electronics. He then worked for Espey Manufacturing in Saratoga Springs as an electronic technician until his retirement. While there, he designed and tested many instruments for NASA that went thousands of miles into space. He enjoyed fishing, hunting and camping in the Adirondacks with his wife and two sons. He also enjoyed taking trips through the Adirondacks and up to the St. Lawrence Seaway with his three grandsons and his granddaughter, Heather, with whom he had a special relationship, as she was the only little girl in his life. The last days of his life found him working in his yard cutting wood, peacefully surrounded by the natural beauty of the trees, birds and woodland animals that he so loved. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by his wife, Christine, his son, Gary and several brothers and sisters. He is survived in this life by his son, Dennis and (Sherry Sutton) Dominick of Queensbury; grandsons, Cameron, Jonathan and Gideon Dominick and his granddaughter, Heather Dominick Kosmicki and her husband Stephen, of New York City. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10am Wednesday (June 2, 2010) in the Church of St. Peter, 241 Broadway, by his cousin, the Rev. Neil Draves-Arpaia. There are no calling hours and burial with military honors will follow in the family plot at St. Peter's Cemetery, West Avenue. Memorials may be made in his name to St. Joseph's House of Grace Hospice, 33 Henry St., Glens Falls, NY 12801. Arrangements are under the direction of the William J. Burke & Sons/Bussing & Cunniff Funeral Homes, 628 North Broadway 584-5373, Saratoga Springs. Online remembrances may be made at www.burkefuneralhome.com.