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News on Steve Foley (SwatGig)
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VetteGirlMA
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Oh that's sad. Is anyone sending flowers to the funeral home? I never met him but he seemed really nice.
The Anchor
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RIP, will miss his insight and comments
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A few of you may have heard but Steve Foley (SwatGig on NES and one of Comm2A's goto lawyers) passed away Monday morning from complications due to COVID-19.
Steve came to the law late in life. He worked in IT for the first half of his career and eventually decided to go to law school. He attended MASL in Andover and became a lawyer. Steve did a lot of work for Comm2A and we will be worse off in his absence. In my experience, lawyers develop specialities, not just in subject matter, but also what it is that drives them. I don't know if Steve ever truly appreciated he had found what got him going in law yet, but I know what I think it was. He was a fierce advocate for people who were getting screwed by the system. He came alive in cases when he saw something where a citizen was getting screwed by the system. More than one town was held to account because Steve was on the case due to that passion.
His family has posted this for his obituary.
Steve came to the law late in life. He worked in IT for the first half of his career and eventually decided to go to law school. He attended MASL in Andover and became a lawyer. Steve did a lot of work for Comm2A and we will be worse off in his absence. In my experience, lawyers develop specialities, not just in subject matter, but also what it is that drives them. I don't know if Steve ever truly appreciated he had found what got him going in law yet, but I know what I think it was. He was a fierce advocate for people who were getting screwed by the system. He came alive in cases when he saw something where a citizen was getting screwed by the system. More than one town was held to account because Steve was on the case due to that passion.
His family has posted this for his obituary.
J. Foley Obituary (2021) - Shrewsbury, MA - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
View J. Foley's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.
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minininjer
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Thanks for the post. I met him once or twice throughout the years. He was a good guy. RIP, swatgig.
BarnBuilder
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A very Honorable man
RIP
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Not that one.just to be clear.....not this J. Foley...right?
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FormerlyIndifferent
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Damn. RIP.
I met him at a couple of Len 2A's meetups, and if I remember right he was telling lawyer jokes.
Seemed like a really good guy.
Steve's passing is a huge loss to us all. He was one of our go-to people at Comm2A and was always game to take on difficult and challenging cases. He always understood that the deck was stacked against anything we sent his way. But he was cheerfully game to tackle anything and never got discouraged.
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I met Steve a few years ago when he karma’d me an old tandem bike that needed a lot of work. It is one of my hobbies and I did restore it and do ride it. We got into a long conversation about old bikes, and our shared background in high tech, and law. For a while he was helping me later look into changing careers to go into law just as he did. I ultimately did not however.
Man he could talk about anything and make you feel like you’d known him forever. What a fine personable and helpful individual he was. I still can’t wrap my head around how young he was and how quickly he passed. A terrible loss for our community.
Man he could talk about anything and make you feel like you’d known him forever. What a fine personable and helpful individual he was. I still can’t wrap my head around how young he was and how quickly he passed. A terrible loss for our community.
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RIP
1903Collector
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Never knew the man but wish I had, R.I.P.
ldi
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RIP
So sad, so young and gone but never to far from memories of many he has affected in a positive ways.
Didn’t have a privilege to know the man personally but his posts on this platform is a good story on its own.
So sad, so young and gone but never to far from memories of many he has affected in a positive ways.
Didn’t have a privilege to know the man personally but his posts on this platform is a good story on its own.
