Stanley M. Gorski, Jr., 71, of Manchester, died August 17, 2013 after a period of declining health.
He was born in Manchester on June 20, 1942, the son of Stanley Sr. and Stella (Mlocek) Gorski. He attended St. Casimir grammar school and graduated from Bishop Bradley High School. He earned his bachelor’s degree in English from St. Anselm College.
During his senior year in college, “Tiny G” as he was known at the time, received a request for him to apply for a teaching position at Bradley. He has been teaching at the high school ever since.
During his 51 years of teaching in the English department at Trinity High School (formerly Bishop Bradley), Stanley was highly respected as an excellent educator, mentor and friend to everyone he came in contact with. He had a special love of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in Middle English and succeeded in passing this passion by reading aloud to thousands of students. In Stan’s first year of teaching, he was also freshman football and basketball coach. In addition to his teaching duties, he volunteered as Trinity High’s varsity basketball, track, tennis, and cheerleading coach as well as serving as the school’s athletic director for many years.
An avid cribbage player, Stan has won 12 season championships playing for the Mount Royale Club 1 in Manchester. For much of his life he was an active parishioner of St. Hedwig Church.
He leaves behind his daughter Charlotte Rose Gorski of Buffalo, NY; her mother, Marigrace (O’Leary) Brown of Manchester; one brother, Richard Gorski and wife Sandy of Telford, PA; three nieces, Kelly Godfrey and husband Michael of Limerick, PA, Amy Thompson and husband Garrett of Harleysville, PA, and Betsy Swanker and husband Brian of Coopersville, PA. He also touched the hearts of many loving cousins, lifelong friends and thousand of Pioneers.
A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 in St. Joseph Cathedral. Committal prayers and burial followed in St. Hedwig Cemetery, Bedford.
Memorial donations may be made in his memory to the Trinity High School Guardian Angel Fund, 581 Bridge St, Manchester, NH 03104.