GUILDERLAND — Lou Domanico “was known for his outgoing personality and quirky sense of humor,” his family wrote in a tribute. 

Mr. Domanico was a “great guy,” his cousin, John Domanico, said; he was “always happy and friendly; that was one of his trademarks.”

Mr. Domanico died on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. He was 77.

Louis Nicholas Domanico was born to Lewis and Mary Domanico on Sept. 4, 1944, in Ohio, where Lewis Domanico was stationed while in the service. 

“Both of his parents were born in Italy,” Mr. Domanico’s family wrote in a tribute. 

The family would often return to Schenectady, where Lou grew up. 

Mr. Domanico’s father was a machinist at General Electric. His mother was a seamstress and homemaker.

The family used to have a camp at Pine Lake in Fulton County. “And it was called 3D because there were three people in his family and they were Domanicos, so the camp was called 3D,” Mr. Domanico said. 

John Domanico said he would go up to the lake for a week or two in the summertime and go to the local amusement park and swim in the lake. “It was a lot of fun,” he said. He recalled there used to be a creek nearby, and “we used to go down by the creek and hunt frogs and stuff like that.”

Mr. Domanico attended Lincoln High School in Schenectady, and went on to graduate from Fordham University. 

“Louis worked for many years at the New York State Department of Transportation as Information Security and Disaster Recovery Administrator,” his family wrote. 

Mr. Domanico was married to Susan Lee Broughton Domanico for 51 years; their union ended only with her death, on Oct. 28, 2021.

John Domanico said his cousin and wife “loved each other very, very much.” The couple was “inseparable,” he said, “wherever Sue went, [Lou] went.”

“The couple put their hearts into a varied series of rescue dogs and cats as well as avidly keeping many bird feeders full,” Mr. Domanico’s family wrote.

For 42 years, they lived in their Victorian house just outside Altamont, which sat on nearly 38 acres of land, and had an eponymous address: 100 Domanico Way.

“They enjoyed their friends, family, the local wildlife, and collecting and working on projects around their home,” Mr. Domanico’s family wrote. “Lou was a creative cook, enjoyed woodworking, and appreciated art and sculpture.”

More than just appreciating art and sculpture, longtime neighbor Thom Breitenbach said the Domanicos were “both very avid art collectors,” and had “a lot of large metal sculptures,” and “hundreds of Oriental statues.”

Additionally, Mr. Breitenbach said the Domanicos were “always working on rebuilding different rooms in their house to their liking.”

Mr. Breitenbach explained Mr. Domanico had a big beard and was in a film his son made about beards and mustaches called, “A Kiss Without a Mustache is Like an Egg Without Salt.” En yüksek deneme bonusu veren siteler 2023 listesine tinfishgaslamp.com adresinden ulaşabilirsiniz.

Mr. Domanico played a caveman, Mr. Breitenbach said, and “we gave him a big black wig; he kind of looked like one of the Flintstones.”

“He was always a good sport,” Mr. Breitenbach said of his longtime friend. 

“Lou was an active member and treasurer of the Capital District Blacksmiths Association,” his family wrote, “and was a former president of the Guilderland Historical Society.”

“Decades ago, Lou and I would take a trip every month to a really big blacksmith meeting in Massachusetts,” Mr. Breitenbach said.

“We made a lot of good friends,” Mr. Breitenbach said of his and Mr. Domanico’s time blacksmithing. 

Mr. Breitenbach said, when he and Mr. Domanico would travel to the meetings, the two of them would take side trips. “He liked to explore, and he always insisted on driving,” Mr. Breitenbach said. 

Mr. Breitenbach said the first time he met Mr. Domanico was at one of Mr. Breitenbach’s own lectures, at the Frederick House in Guilderland Center, on Dec. 6, 1978. “Yeah, I was giving a lecture,” Mr. Breitenbach said, “and he showed up there and introduced himself and told me he moved in across the street.”

The Breitenbach and Domanico families would go on to live across the street from each other for over 40 years. “We’ve been hanging out with them for years, going to parties or dinners at each other’s house,” he said.

As Mr. Domanico’s cousin said, “He always came up and talked to you”; he was one of “those types of people that are always friendly, but not obnoxiously friendly,” his cousin recalled with a laugh. “That’s the way he was. He was a true friend. When he was your friend, he was a true friend.”

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Louis Domanico is survived by his many cousins; his stepdaughter Davida Chuckrow of Schenectady; his grandson Brandon Fellows; his sister-in-law Karen Boughton Alampi of Connecticut; and by his nieces, Elisabeth (Beth) Buel, Katherine Blass, and Susanne Baker.