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In a way, this is what Anthony Emmi wanted, his body tended to at home by family and friends. Anthony's brother Al watches as funeral director and family friend Matt Cheche and Ron Oughterson prepare to wheel the body out of the Emmi's Aurelius home. When Natalie Emmi looks at this photograph now, she says it is comforting to know Anthony died on his own terms. "I felt sad and I felt glad it was done the way he wanted," Natalie said. "A hospital is so impersonal. But at home, he's got everybody around him. We were with him until the end."
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- Since last July, the Emmi family has struggled with the loss of their patriarch, Anthony. While his legacy lives on through the 300+ buildings he built around Auburn, it continues growing every day through the new homes built by Emmi Construction, now run by his son Louis. "We hurt very, very much," the Rev. Robert Belligotti said. "This causes us great pain in our hearts. But, we can begin to feel good about Anthony. He was a master builder indeed."
- Louis Emmi greets his father when returning to their Aurelius home after work last June. Every day after work, Louis kissed his father on the head and talked about work. Louis now runs Emmi Construction, the business his father started. "When it comes to this business, he was a natural," Louis said. "For every problem, there's a solution. That's the way he was."
- Hospice of the Finger Lakes nurse Marie-Louise Wyckoff comforts Anthony Emmi during a home visit last spring in Aurelius. Wyckoff was one of several Hospice employees and volunteers who helped Anthony and his family cope with his liver cancer. "I'm forever grateful for Hospice, because I never would have gotten through it without them," Anthony's wife Natalie said.
- Natalie Emmi bathes her husband Anthony in a bedroom of their Beech Tree Road home a few days before he died last July. As cancer spread through Anthony's liver, he became exhausted and his wife often bathed him in bed, where he could rest more comfortably. Their son Louis said it was difficult to watch his father battle cancer. "The hardest part was knowing what the overall outcome would be and watching it happen," he said.
- Anthony Emmi's family and friends pray the rosary in his Beech Tree Road home a day after he became comatose last July. Natalie Emmi said both she and her husband were comforted with their family around them. "So as we all knelt here, as he was in a coma, we could hear him say the rosary 'Blessed mother, blessed mother, my Jesus, my Jesus' It was beautiful," she said.
- Louis Emmi kisses his father good-bye a few minutes after he died last July in their Aurelius home. Anthony died in his living room, surrounded by his family. Natalie is still upset she nodded off just before he died. "He had such a beautiful death if death can be beautiful," Natalie said. "He slipped right away without a sound."
- In a way, this is what Anthony Emmi wanted, his body tended to at home by family and friends. Anthony's brother Al watches as funeral director and family friend Matt Cheche and Ron Oughterson prepare to wheel the body out of the Emmi's Aurelius home. When Natalie Emmi looks at this photograph now, she says it is comforting to know Anthony died on his own terms. "I felt sad and I felt glad it was done the way he wanted," Natalie said. "A hospital is so impersonal. But at home, he's got everybody around him. We were with him until the end."
- Anthony Emmi's granddaughters, Rachael and Amanda, pray during calling hours at Cheche Funeral Home last July in Auburn. "He's in a much better place now, " Natalie Emmi said.
- Pall bearers carry Anthony Emmi into St. Francis Church for the final time last year in Auburn. Throughout much of his life, Emmi donated his time and talents to the church "All of our lives are journeys of faith," the Rev. Robert Belligotti said in his eulogy. "He knew how to build beautiful houses for all of us. And God now will build for him a lasting place. His signature is almost everywhere here at St. Francis."
- Louis Emmi consoles his mother Natalie as they drive away from St. Joseph's Cemetery, following Anthony Emmi's burial. "He's in a much better place now," Natalie later said. Nat says "He's in a much better place now"
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