Obituaries

-- Joe Holley

Alfred 'Boosh' LucianiFootball Coach

Alfred Mario "Boosh" Luciani, 81, an assistant football coach at Archbishop John Carroll High School, died of complications of renal cancer March 15 at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. He lived in Odenton.

Mr. Luciani coached for more than 30 years, including a dozen years for the grade school teams at St. Anthony of Padua in Northeast Washington. He was honored as "man of the year" in 1975 by the Brookland Club. Carroll High School alumni in 2005 named him to their Hall of Honor.

The Hall of Honor award said: "On and off the field, the number of young men he influenced will never be known. Nor does he want it known. He simply wanted to give during his free time to those he coached and mentored."

Mr. Luciani was born in Steubenville, Ohio, and he excelled on his high school football team. After graduation, he joined the Army in 1944 and served in Europe under Gen. George Patton during World War II and helped liberate concentration camps. He remained in the Army after the war ended and served in the Korean War. He retired from the service as a master sergeant in 1952.

He worked for 26 years at the Railway Express Agency in Washington.

Mr. Luciani was a volunteer with the Big Brothers program and was a member of the Knights of Columbus.

Survivors include two sisters, Rita Giovenco of Odenton and Elsie Fallica of Ruckersville, Va.; and two brothers, John Lucian of Lynchburg and Robert Lucian of Hyattsville.

-- Patricia Sullivan