Christine Moschella Terlesky, my wife Janet’s niece, died the day after Christmas following a seven-year battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease. She was 48 years old and leaves her husband, Brian, and three handsome children, Brian, 21, Tyler, 16, and Emma, 12.
Christine was as lovely and sweet on the inside as she was on outside. She was a wonderful wife and mother who took great pleasure in the accomplishments of her children. She was an accomplished teacher at Boardman High School, an outstanding coach, and a passionate advocate in the battle for a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the technical name for a terrifying although non-communicable disease, which gradually destroys a person’s nerve cells reducing functionality in the muscles and, with no known cure, slowly and inexorably results in death.