Ray Falconer passed away in December 2001. Lonesome 1932-1935. made a life-long career out of his weather observations while working in the Franconias. Busy in his retirement as a weather commentator on several radio stations around his Burnt Hills, New York home. Ray was the senior research associate at the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at State University of New York at Albany until his retirement in 1983; an associate at the GE Research Lab in Schenectady from ’46 to ’57 helping develop the process of cloud seeding.