ANOTHER WAR YEARS VET PASSES.

Rest in Peace Chief Manson. May your family at home and on The Job be comforted.
Thank you for the stories you shared with us.
 
RET A.C. WILLIAM A. SHAW.....
On Sept 2026 at 84 yrs of age.....RET May 1995 after 28 yrs OTJ...

REST IN PEACE BROTHER .....THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE BOTH MILITARY US NAVY & USNR & FDNY...PRAYERS FOR THE COMFORT OF THE FAMILIES.

I first met Bill when he was a LT in LAD*110 & we (R*2) were in BN*31.....always good to see & work with him ......he lived not too far from me & on occasion i wold see him & his Sons around....he always had a nice hello & took the time for some talk.....he was also a Lawyer.....while he was Chief Of Safety there was a LODD & the FC told him he wanted a report on his desk right away....Bill explained it was not possible but the FC insisted.....Bill insisted it was not the proper way to accomplish it properly & handed in his RET papers.

Obit & Arrangements ..... https://www.nhpfh.com/post/william-shaw
 
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Bill and I were brought up down the block from each other, in Flatbush Brooklyn. In my career in the FDNY we met from time to time and always greeted each other with a handshake and a smile, in later year despite the difference in our ranks. Bill was always good and fair to me in all ways.
Rest in Peace brother firefighter and friend from down the block. Captain Bob Rainey FGDNY Engine 26 retired.
 
RET BC JOHN "JACK" McELROY BN*17.

REST IN PEACE BROTHER....PRAYERS FOR THE COMFORT OF THE FAMILIES.
Plan Family Trips

APPT. to ENG*65 1-60....Transf. to R*2 8-62...to LAD*11 7-64....Promo to LT 3-67.... LT ENG*28 1-68....Promo to CPT. 3-72....CPT LAD*30 3-73
Promo to BC 3-81 & assigned to BN*5 then Transf. to BN*17 working there 16 yrs & RET 4-97 after 38 yrs OTJ.

Arrangements : Wake Fri 10-30-26. 1400 to 1800 hrs. at Appleby McPhilips Funeral Home 130 Highland Ave. Middletown NY

Reception to follow at the ELK'S across the Street.
 
Chief Jack McElroy was one of the finest men I ever have known. An outstanding veteran of some of the busiest unit in the FDNY during some of the busiest years in the FDNY war years. I first met Jack when I was a covering in the mid 1980s as a Lieutenant assigned to Batt. 26 in the South Bronx. I often worked covering in the very busy units in Batt. 17 where Jack was a Battalion Chief. He asked me where I worked as a Firemen and when I told him in Ladder 11 and Ladder 18 on the Lower East Side we had a bond thereafter. Ask anyone who worked with Jack and no one would say anything but that he was a great fair man and a great firefighting Chief. Rest in God's hands, brother and friend.
Captain Bob Rainey FDNY Engine 26 retired.
 
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