By Kathianne Boniello
Former Marine and longtime Little Neck Memorial Day Parade organizer James E. Flaherty, Jr. of Little Neck, died of cancer last Wednesday. He was 67.
Flaherty, who served as a tank commander with the 1st Marine Division in Central and Western Korea in 1952, was credited with expanding the Little Neck Memorial Day Parade into the second largest in the nation.
Karen Bartolotta, who has co-chaired the parade with Tom Nouza since 1994 when Flaherty retired, described his funeral at St. Anastasia
