Dore M. Karasin

Dore M. Karasin, 45, of Richford, NY passed away suddenly at home on Friday, January 16, 2015.

""The best portion of a good man's life: his little,
nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love."" ? William Wordsworth
Dore was a good man. He was a caring, generous, and available friend. He
built 2 houses for his family to live and grow in.

He loved to cook the elaborate gourmet meals his wife loved to plan. He enjoyed gardening. He once built a pneumatic potato gun. For a few years he tried to engineer anyway he could to foil the squirrels that were devouring our birdseed. He enjoyed travel. He was the chair of Richford's Board of Appeals for many years.

Dore was born on April 28th, 1969 in Meadowbrook, PA. His family moved to Richford when he was 10. He graduated from Newark Valley High School in 1988. He graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1993. He worked for Raymond Corporation in Greene, NY for over 16 years as a Manufacturing and then as a Test Engineer. For one year, he was a stay-at-home dad for our newborn twins, Sophia and Lily. For the last almost 5 years he has worked as a Maintenance Technician at Vanguard Printing in Ithaca. Dore loved being an engineer and technician as well as building our homes. As Lily and Sophia say, "Daddy's a really good fixer."

Dore's most essential identity, though, was as a dad. He prized family.

He loved everything about being a stay-at-home dad when the girls were babies. More recently, he loved planting with the girls, picking wildflowers, and walking in the creek with them. He loved reading, swimming, baking, and building with them. He supported them as learners and athletes. He enjoyed the time he spent in their classrooms. He loved when we stopped by his work to give him "daddy kisses", which the girls insisted we do several times a week.

Dore is survived by his wife of 19 years and childhood sweetheart Cyndi

Herrick, his 5-year-old daughters Sophia and Lily Karasin, his parents Flora

and Lou Karasin of Richford, his brother and sister-in-law Alan and Marie

Karasin of Ithaca, his nieces Allison and Mariana Karasin of Ithaca, his

mother-in-law and father-in-law Barb and Ken Miller of Richford, his

sister-in-law and her partner Candy Herrick and Robert Kemp of Indianapolis, his grandmother-in-law Lula Birdsall of Cortland, as well as many aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends.

Please join us on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 at 11 AM at Perkins Funeral Home, 55 West Main Street, Dryden, followed by a meal of fellowship at the Richford Community Hall. In lieu of flowers, we ask you, in Dore's memory, to perform an act of kindness in your family or community. www.legacy.com