
Paul F. Doherty
1959 - 2025
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brian ledoux posted a condolence
Friday, August 29, 2025
All the years combine they melt into a dream lots of LOVE my friend thanks for all the fun Brian Ledoux
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Ed Gorczyca posted a condolence
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Fritz had the ability to bring friends together no matter how long they were apart and make it seemed like it was yesterday. He took great joy with being with his friends and he was always cheerful and had a smile. His health hardships could sap him of some strength, but never that joy he had. In those 15 years around HC with him, before life drifted everyone apart, he made indelible marks on everyone he touched. I am better from knowing him. Fare you well. RIP
Ed Gorczyca
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Jim posted a condolence
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
A tribute to Fritz
His road was no simple highway and he laughed.
He was the best, of course, at dropping his friend Hunter's poetry in conversation though we all try lol.
Hunter apparently saw his art as a collaboration with the listener/reader, perhaps with no wrong answers.
Fritz liked the Poe poem "Eldorado".
I asked if "mountains of the moon" (Garcia/Hunter) was related to Poe's poem. This was his response:
"I don't know / I threw it out to him one day in a roundabout way because I knew he hated being asked questions about his lyrics and he didn't pick up what I had laid down ever-so-lightly -- haha -- but I absolutely love seeing that Poe used it as well!! - it's awesome!!"
Thanks Fritz!
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John Walsh posted a condolence
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Fare thee well, my dear, sweet friend.
Love you more than words can tell.
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Michael Naas posted a condolence
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Fritz died just over forty-five years ago, and then again this past June. Most of us who knew him were familiar with some version of the story: it was June 20, 1980—the summer solstice, because Fritz had a thing for solstices—and he was in Alaska for, what else, a Grateful Dead concert. Something happened, it is not clear what, but Fritz described it as a kind of death and rebirth. It was just one of Fritz’s many lives, deaths, and rebirths, just one of the many health crises he succumbed to and then miraculously overcame, through a combination of faith, prayer, music, and a form of self-medication that bordered on alchemy. Fritz thus lived, died, and was reborn more times than anyone can count, either as augustwest80@gmail.com--a reference to the Dead’s Wharf Rat and, no doubt, that 1980 event again--or as ashesrising@gmail.com--no doubt a reference to the same or a similar event--or as thepilgrimshadow@gmail.com, a reference, perhaps (I regret having never asked him), to a famous trick of shadow and light that appears on the façade of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as if he, Fritz, had used this address to be there always in spirit, the shadow pilgrim of that pilgrim shadow, making his way along the road to Compostela. Because there was no better pilgrim in this world than Fritz Doherty, and no better friend or companion to accompany you along the path. It will be hard to walk without him.
Michael Naas
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Mike Cummings posted a condolence
Monday, August 25, 2025
Fritz, you were always so full of life, adventure, and inquisitiveness about everything. You will be missed, greatly. May the four winds blow you safely home.
Mike Cummings
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Douglas Ranalli uploaded photo(s)
Monday, August 25, 2025
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Paul was my friend and a constant source of hope and in my life for 35 years. Vaya con dios mi hermano! This picture was taken in September 2024 as Paul and I prepared for a flight from Skaneateles aerodrome to overfly Niagara Falls. Paul loved to fly.
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Jimmy McDonagh posted a condolence
Sunday, August 24, 2025
God Bless Fritzer…it was a long strange trip together for most of our lives. cM, Holy Cross, life after college and hundreds of wonderful shows and travels. I miss you and will forever cherish our decades together. Rest in Peace and give Marina a hug for me
Little Bud (Jimmy McD)
A Memorial Tree was planted for Paul Doherty
Saturday, August 23, 2025
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29
August
Requiem Mass
10:00 am
Friday, August 29, 2025
Blessed Virgin Mary Church
2656 Warners Road
Warners, New York, United States
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Blessed Virgin Mary Church Cemetery
2656 Warners Rd
Warners, New York, United States
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