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==Birth== 
Stanley Haluska was the son of Lois (Leggett) Haluska and the late '''[[Haluska, Charles V.|Charles Haluska]]'''. His sister was:
*Ann Haluska, who married Mark Resnick

==Education== 
Stanley Haluska graduated from  Berne-Knox-Westerlo. “He was  very clean cut,” said his sister,  Ann Resnick, describing what he  was like in high school. He went on to study at Mata Christi and Our Lady of Angels seminaries. “He wanted to be a  priest,” said his sister.

Mr. Haluska is a graduate of Niagara University

==Occupation== 
After Mr. Haluska completed  his studies, Mrs. Resnick said, he  ran children’s homes for boys in  Albany. “He took in underprivileged kids,” she said. He adopted one of the boys,  his son, Chris, now grown, she  said.

About 30 years ago, she said,  her brother moved to Alabama to  study to become a hypnotherapist. It was there that he met his  wife, Patricia Walsh Haluska,  said Mrs. Resnick. Together,  they wrote a book called Ships  of Song: A Parable of Ascension.  “It’s about the afterlife in a Star  Wars sort of way,” said Mrs.  Resnick.

==Marriage & Children== 
Stanley Haluska married Patricia Walsh. Their son was:
Chris Haluska of Ashville, N.C.

==Death==
Stanley  Haluska died unexpectedly on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 at Albany Medical Center. He was 63.

EAST BERNE — Mr. and Mrs. Charles V. Haluska announce the engagement of their son, Stanley, to Patricia Elizabeth Walsh of New York City.

Miss Walsh is the daughter of Michael and Rosemary Walsh of Madison, Wisc, and a graduate of North Western University of Evanston, Ill. She is creative director of Vogue Wright Studios of New York City.

Mr. Haluska is a graduate of Niagara University and is manager of an apartment complex in Ashville, N.C. A November wedding is planned in Ashville.
:[[h:Altamont Enterprise|Altamont Enterprise]] - October 4, 1990

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Stanley Haluska

EAST BERNE — Stanley  Haluska, a licensed hypnotherapist and author who grew up in Berne, died unexpectedly on  Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 at Albany  Medical Center. He was 63. The son of Lois (Leggett)  Haluska and the late Charles  Haluska, he graduated from  Berne-Knox-Westerlo. “He was  very clean cut,” said his sister,  Ann Resnick, describing what he  was like in high school.

Mr. Haluska had attended St. Bernadette’s Church in Berne.  He went on to study at Mata  Christi and Our Lady of Angels  seminaries. “He wanted to be a  priest,” said his sister.

After Mr. Haluska completed  his studies, Mrs. Resnick said, he  ran children’s homes for boys in  Albany. “He took in underprivileged kids,” she said. He adopted one of the boys,  his son, Chris, now grown, she  said.

About 30 years ago, she said,  her brother moved to Alabama to  study to become a hypnotherapist. It was there that he met his  wife, Patricia Walsh Haluska,  said Mrs. Resnick. Together,  they wrote a book called Ships  of Song: A Parable of Ascension.  “It’s about the afterlife in a Star  Wars sort of way,” said Mrs.  Resnick.

Amazon describes their book  this way: “Stanley and Patricia  Walsh bring a unique blend of  inspiring action and vivid imagery to this epic tale of human  existence. Stanley a minister,  lecturer, and therapist, and  Patricia an artist, photographer, and graphic designer,  have combined their expertise,  talents, and search for spiritual  truth into a compelling drama of spiritual awakening.”

“He was very giving,” said Mrs.  Resnick of her brother. “He’d give  you the shirt off his back.”

Mr. Haluska is survived by his  wife Patricia Walsh Haluska; his  son, Chris, of Ashville, N.C.; His  mother, Lois (Leggett) Haluska;  his sister, Ann Resnick, and her  husband, Mark; and many cousins and friends. Funeral services were private  and handled by the Fredendall  Funeral Home of Altamont.

— Melissa Hale-Spencer
:[[h:Altamont Enterprise|Altamont Enterprise]] - November 1, 2012
==Additional Media== 
Haluska’s  sister asks ‘How did this happen?’

By Melissa Hale-Spencer

ALBANY COUNTY — Stanley Haluska died on Saturday, having suffocated himself while a prisoner at Albany County’s  jail.

At 63, he was awaiting extradition to Alabama on sex abuse  charges.

In March 2010, Haluska was  sentenced to 10 years in prison,  after being found guilty of sexual  abuse of a boy under the age  of 12, meaning no probation is  allowed. In October 2011, an  appeals court confirmed his  conviction.

The Jefferson County, Alabama  judge described Haluska’s sentencing as “polarizing,” according  to a May 14, 2010 story in The  Birmingham News, stating the  victim’s mother called Haluska  a danger to children, while his  wife cited a lifetime of helping  troubled adolescent boys; two  dozen people attended the sentencing in support of Haluska  and the judge received 30 letters  also in his support. “He had always said he  wouldn’t be taken back,” said  Haluska’s sister, Ann Resnick,  of East Berne. “In Alabama,  he’d be a white boy in a mostly  black prison, and they don’t like  pedophiles. He was sentenced to  10 years; that’s hard time. And  he was crippled.”

Haluska had arrived at the  East Berne home of his 88-yearold mother on July 4. “He had  shaved his beard off and cut his  hair, and brought every stitch  of clothing and his computer,”  recalled his sister. “We knew  something was wrong.” Resnick and her husband,  Mark, live next door to Resnick’s  mother, Lois Haluska. The family goes back generations in the  Hilltowns, she said.

Mr. Haluska had graduated  from Berne-Knox-Westerlo in  1967 as a “nice, clean-cut” kid,  his sister said. “He was very religious,” she said, and attended St.  Bernadette’s Church in Berne. He wanted to be a priest and  went to Mata Christi and Our  Lady of Angels seminaries. He  then ran children’s homes for  boys in Albany, taking in underprivileged kids, she said. Thirty years ago, he was delivering pizza when he was hit  by a drunk driver, pinned between two cars, his sister said.  “It crushed his right leg,” she  said. “He was crippled with one  leg….He was in little pieces, like  a Tinkertoy.”

After that, she said, he went to Alabama to study to become  a hypnotherapist, someone  who treats medical conditions  through hypnosis. He met his  wife there and they wrote a book  together. He wrote another book,  “a comical story of his life,” while  he was in prison, she said. He  wrote it out longhand on paper,  since computers aren’t allowed  in jail.

After his July arrival in Berne,  Mrs. Resnick recalled, “My husband looked him up on Crime  Stoppers; he was on the Top 10  List.” 

“He lied,” said Mrs. Resnick.  “He claimed he didn’t do anything, that it was all a mistake.  He was on the run.” Recently, his family has wondered if he may have been abused  at seminary. “My mother came  up with that,” said Mrs. Resnick.  “So many boys dropped out at  a time.”

“I made the call,” she said of  informing Crime Stoppers of her  brother’s whereabouts. “If they  came without notice, it would  have killed my mother,” she said.  Of turning in her brother, Mrs.  Resnick said, “It was hard.” But,  she went on, her husband, who  works as a nurse, could have lost  his license. “You can’t harbor a  fugitive,” she said.

Mark Resnick’s brother is a  Bethlehem Police officer so Mr.  Resnick called his brother. “They  came quietly on a Sunday afternoon, July 18,” said Mrs. Resnick  of the officers who took him to  Albany County’s jail. “They were  nice about it.”

Mr. Haluska was angry. “He  accused my husband of ruining  his life,” said Mrs. Resnick. Mr.  Resnick visited Mr. Haluska in  jail a couple of times she said.  “My mother went in once,” she  said, alluding to how upsetting  the restrictive atmosphere in  the jail is.

“He was fighting extradition,”  said Mrs. Resnick. His wife maintained his innocence, she said. On Friday, Oct. 27, the day he  suffocated himself, Mrs. Resnick  said, “His wife talked to him that  morning, and said his spirits  were good.

“Marshals from Alabama must  have come,” Mrs. Resnick surmised, adding, “We don’t know  what happened after that.” Captain William Riley with  the Albany County Sheriff’s Office said what happened is this:  On Friday, Oct. 26, at 3:15 p.m.,  a guard found Haluska on the  cell floor.

“He tried to suffocate himself… with a plastic bag,” he said. “They  opened the cell and started to  perform CPR,” Captain Riley  said. “He had a pulse when they  left with him in the ambulance.  They tried to use the AED,” he  said of an automatic external  defibrillator. “He was still alive  with a heartbeat.”

The ambulance took Mr. Haluska to Albany Medical Center.  “They told us later that he was  kept alive on a respirator. He was  brain dead,” said Captain Riley.  “They were waiting for the family  to make a decision.”

The next thing the family knew  on Friday was at 4:30 p.m. when  Mr. Resnick, who works as a  nurse at Albany Medical Center,  by chance saw the name Stanley  Haluska listed as being “in full  arrest,” said Mrs. Resnick. “The sheriff did come to my  mother’s house that evening,”  she said.

“We know he didn’t want to go  back,” she said of extradition to  Alabama. “But we want to know  how they let this happen on their  watch.”

Cecelia Logue, spokeswoman  for Albany County District Attorney David Soares, said yesterday,  “Our office is currently not investigating.” However, she said,  as a matter of routine, the State  Commission on Corrections will  conduct an investigation.
:[[h:Altamont Enterprise|Altamont Enterprise]] - November 1, 2012

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