Born: July 2, 1986
Died: Sept. 11, 1995
Married: Althea Smith
Children:
Jack Tierney was World War I veteran. He served as chief of the Saranac Lake Police Department from 1932 to 1936.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 14, 1995
Jack Tierney
SARANAC LAKE - Jack Tierney, 99, of 20 Church St. here, died Monday, Sept. 11, 1995 at the Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake.
Born July 2, 1986 in Troy, he was the son of John and Florence Tierney. In the late 1920s, he married the former Althea Smith, who predeceased him Nov. 16, 1973.
Mr. Tierney had been a resident of Saranac, Lake since 1963, coming from Massena, where he was employed for many years as an office manager at the ALCOA plant until his retirement in 1963. Prior to moving to Massena , Mr. Tierney was an Officer with the New York State Police Troop B, stationed in Malone. He retired from the force in 1927.
From 1932 to 1936 he served as chief of the Saranac Lake Police Department. He was a member of the Saranac Lake Adult Center and a communicant of St. Bernard's Church in Saranac Lake. He was recently honored and presented with two plaques by the New York State Police Troop B in Ray Brook on his 99th birthday for his service in the department.
Survivors include several nieces and nephews including Joan and Bob Bouvier of Albany; Gene and Micheline Smith of Vally Field, Quebec; Bernard and Rose Coolon of Portland, Ore.; John D. Albuquerque of Jasper, Ga.; his companion of more than 15 years, June Stearns of Saranac Lake; and many close friends including Elaine and Henry Cox of Bangor.
Calling hours will take place from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23 at the Fortune-Keough Funeral Home in Saranac Lake. There will be a Bible vigil service at 8 Wednesday evening. A Mass of Christian burial will take place at 11:15 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 24 at St. Bernard's Church in Saranac Lake. Interment will follow in Pine Ridge Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the High Peaks Hospice in care of the Fortune-Keough Funeral Home.
Tupper Lake Free Press and Tupper Lake Herald, January 27, 1938
John Tierney, former Saranac Lake police chief, is on hand this session as Mr. [Assemblyman John H. Black of Faust] Black's clerk while Robert Farmer of Tupper Lake, who when the legislature is not in session is employed in Mr. Black's grocery store, is starting his third year as an assembly page.
Mr. Tierney, a World war veteran and a member of the Harrietstown Republican town committee, was endorsed for the clerkship by that committee.
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