New York City, New York (NewYorkInjuryNews.com) — An English teacher of the Jemicy School of Towson died in a motorcycle accident recently. His mother said that he was going to Vermont for a vacation. The New York State police said that 29-year old Gary Anthony ‘Tony’ Smith lived in Griffin Court in Fells Point. He had been traveling through a crossing at around 11 am on Tuesday, when a car turning left struck Gary. His mother Nicole Gnezda and his father John Snouffer had a plan to meet Gary and Katharine Smith, his sister from Seattle, during the weekend to attend a wedding to be held in Massachusetts.
Gnezda said that her son had been teaching 9th grade English in the Jemicy School for 2 years and had recently requested the authorities to assign him some of the most exigent students. His mother also said that Gary had a specialization to develop individual methods to teach children suffering from dyslexia and similar learning difficulties. She said that he had also coached cross and track country.
Brought up in Worthington, Gary graduated from the Grinnell College, Iowa in 2001 with a degree in music composition and philosophy. He had also traveled a lot as he took up farming jobs in Vermont and Iowa, and teaching as a substitute teacher in the under-privileged schools of Mississippi before he moved to the area of Baltimore nearly 4 years ago for teaching at Lab School, Baltimore.
The family said that a memorial service in Gary’s honor has been planned on Wednesday at 11 am at the Rutherford Corbin Funeral Home, Worthington. Apart from his sister, stepfather and mother, Gary is survived by one more sister living in Chicago.
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