In Memory Of Our
Dear Friend
Steve M.
March 29, 1957 ~ January 19, 2007
Heaven is a promise
of peace, love, and eternal life
for each one who believes.
"To day shalt thou be with me in paradise"
LUKE 23:43
We have lost a wonderful dear friend on January 19, 2007. This was the day that Steve M. departed us to spend eternity in Heaven. Although we would have done anything to try and prevent this from happening, we could not stop God's calling for Steve to come home. He is loved and sadly missed, and will always be in the hearts of his friends and family.
Stephen R. Mazur, age 49 of Youngstown, NY entered into rest unexpectedly from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Pittsburgh, PA on Friday, January 19,2007. Steve was born in Washington, DC to John and Irene (trementozzi) Mazur. He was raised in Alexandria, VA and was a graduate of the T.C. Williams High School, class of 1975. He recieved his Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV in 1981, after which he became a licensed professional chemical engineer.
While attending WVU, Steve received a ROTC scholarship and entered the Army in 1981. He was commandant of the NUclear Biological and Chemical School at Fort Dix, NJ and achieved the rank of Captain. He was employed at Nalco Chemical Company as a technical salles repr3esentative, based in Denver, CO; the Olin Chemical COmpany in Richmond, VA; then moved to Lewiston, NY where he became a self-taught stock broker. While living in the Lewiston area, he worked for the New York City Metropolitan Refining Company. Later he became a pioneer in the non-destructive industrial testing industry, and most recently worked for Kodak, serving as technical sales manager for Kodak's Non-Destructive Testing Group in the mid-west. Steve was on the Kodak team that x-rayed Leonardo, a brachylophosauras canadensis which was the best preserved dionosaur ever discovered. Whith experience in many NDT technologies, including computed radiography, he was critical to setting up each x-ray on the Leonardo project.
He recently authored a paper for "Inspection Trends on computed radiography and its use in sructuarl steel bridge inspections. He had plans to travel to Malta, MT to the dinosaur field station to participate in a dig with one of his daughters. Steve was a humanitarian, and was the Chairman of the 2003 American Cancer Society's Relay for Life. He was a member of the Lutheran Church of the Messiah in Leiston, where he taught Sunday school. He was the inter-group PR representative for Gamblers Anonymous of WNY. Steve was a founding member of the Gun Harbor Wilderness Expeditionary Team and the Beaver River Fall Hunt Club. He was always available for his friend and family, to help with any of their needs.
Survivors include his wife of 25 years, Jill Gleason-Mazur; two daughters, Amy and Emily Mazur; father John Mazur of Alexandria, VA; three brothers; Rick Mazur of Southport, NC, Gary Mazur of SPringfield, VA, and Jack Mazur of Alexandria, VA; a sister, Pattie Hartford of Fairfax, VA; his mother-in-law, Lois Gleason of Lewiston; six nieces: Catherine Mazur, Sarah Mosley, Diana Hartford, Holly Hawkins, Marci DuBois, April DuBois; and a nephew, Christopher Mazur.
O God of grace and glory, we remember before you today our brother Stephen. We thank you for giving him to us to know and to love as companion in our pilgrimage on earth. In our boundless compassion, console us who mourn. Give us faith to see that death has been swallowed up in the victory of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that we may live in confidence and hope until, by your call, we are gathered to our heavenly home in the company of all your saints; through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.
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If tears could build a stairway, and memories were a lane. I would walk right up to heaven, to bring you home agan. No farewell words were spoken, no time to say good-bye. You were gone before we knew it, and only God knows why. Our hearts still ache in sadness, and secret tears still flow. What it meant to lose you, no one will ever know. You and angels around God's happy throne. I would have had you close if I had known.
One message Steve tried to carry the hardest to all of us in GA.
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Friends like us rely upon one another to inspire and encourage, to support each other in following our dreams as far as they'll take us. Friends like us are winners not only because we believe in ourselves, but because we believe in each other.
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GA of Niagara Falls wishes thanks to all who made donations in memory of Steve M.
Austin A, Sue M, Richard L, Gary & Deborah L, Michael G, Margery S, Eileen & Anne H., Angela S, Janet S, Nancy C, Kodak Non Destructive Team, Rick & Nancy M, Leo & Josephine C. M, Karen B., & Janet & Richard S.
Thanks to all of there support to our program in honor of Steve's Memory.
More pictures of Steve can be found by following the link below so graciously created by his coworker.
http://diedrakirk.1000words.kodak.com/default.asp?item=474630