John D. Semich

JOHN SEMICH, 82
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Staten Island Advance

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- John D. Semich, 82, of Annadale, a longtime Staten Islander and retired machinist, died yesterday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze.

Born in Cedar Hills, Colo., he also lived in Brooklyn before settling in Annadale in 1962. Mr. Semich worked as a machinist for Brillo, the cleaning pad company, for 28 years and then for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) trains until his retirement in 2003.

He enjoyed traveling to Maine with his son to go hunting and shooting.
Mr. Semich served in the U.S. Army as a private first class during World War II. He was a parishioner of Holy Child R.C. Church, Eltingville.

Mr. Semich's wife of 40 years, the former Virginia Long, died in 1987.
Surviving are his son, John (Jack); his two daughters, Susan Day and Diane Mills, and two grandchildren.

The funeral will be Saturday from the John Vincent Scalia Home for Funerals, with a mass at 9:45 a.m. in Holy Child R.C. Church, both Eltingville. Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery, Pleasant Plains.