Trooper eulogized as family man, good colleague

March 22, 2016 11:04 pm

By News Staff

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The Associated Press

The Massachusetts state trooper killed in a crash last week was remembered by a former colleague as a dedicated family man and “the glue that kept us together” at work.

Retired Sgt. Albert Toney said Tuesday in his eulogy for Trooper Thomas Clardy that the years he spent with Clardy when they were assigned to the Sturbridge barracks were “the best five years of my career.”

Toney read messages from Clardy’s children. They remember their father for his sense of humor, the fact he always had time for them, and for letting them stay up late to watch a college football bowl game.

The 44-year-old former Marine and father of seven died of injuries suffered on March 16, when a car struck his cruiser as he was stopping another vehicle on the Massachusetts Turnpike.