Salvatore J Pulire

Born on the upper east side of Manhattan, the only son of a Sicilian father and Italian mother, Sal along with three sisters grew up in a number of the City’s Boroughs until his family settled in Flushing, Queens.

Sal was an accomplished Boy Scout of note having won a city-wide scouting skills competition in his youth. Sal enjoyed sports and attended public schools until age 17 when he enlisted in the US Navy serving on active duty between 1951 and 1955. A veteran of the Korean War, Sal was assigned to the USS Macon (CA-132), a heavy cruiser, where he was a Gunner’s Mate posted to a forward cannon battery. Sal sailed the Seven Seas and was inducted as a Neptunus Rex on his way across the Atlantic in 1951. After his military service Sal was a self-taught mechanical designer beginning his career as a draftsman. Sal excelled at the craft and worked for decades as a mechanical engineer despite having never been formally trained.

Among many accomplishments Sal designed machinery that produced early audio tape platforms such as the 8 Track tape and stereo cassettes for the music industry. He worked for a time at Gruman Aircraft on Long Island, NY and in the early 1980s for Harris Corporation on space defense projects. He spent his senior working years as a design consultant to legacy manufacturing interests in and around New Hampshire.

Sal was a lifelong automobile enthusiast and trader. Always on the hunt for a deal he bought and sold fine motor cars most often for a handsome profit. Sal loved to hunt, fish and boat fashioning both vessels and fishing equipment. Sal could not pass a yard sale and would dicker like a Bedouin no matter the item. Sal always had blue prints and machinery from which he fabricated self-designed creations and fixes. He was a shrewd financial investor managing his assets in the market, real estate and financial instruments. Sal enjoyed the finer things in life and while drifting a trout pond would often ask what the rich people were doing that day as comment to his good fortune.

Sal is survived by his three children from his first marriage, Michael Pulire and wife Cindy of Scarborough, ME, Lisa West of Alaska and Krista Pulire of South Berwick, ME and his step children from his 40 year marriage to his love Maria “Mary” Teresa DiMambro/Davis who pre-deceased him on June 10, 2016, Teresa Fogerty of Minnesota, Douglas Davis and wife Christine of Penacook, NH, Cynthia Joyce and husband Robert of Minnesota, Debra Stohrer and husband Peter of Concord, NH and Rodney Davis of California.

Among the many grandchildren and great grandchildren he was so fond of, Sal has four great grandsons to carry on his family name which pleased him greatly. Sal’s medical care in recent years included the home-based primary care staff from the Veteran’s Administration of whom he grew very fond. He entered Hospice early this past year and was very appreciative for the care and goodwill he received from the Concord VNA.

Sal also was happy to have spent his final years with the compassion and kindness of the Birches’ staff who treated him with dignity, respect and good humor.

Sal will be escorted to his final resting place by a US military Honor Guard at a grave side ceremony in the US Veteran’s Cemetery Boscawen, NH on Friday December 29, 2023 at Noon to salute a life of purpose and fulfillment. Attendees are asked to report to the VA Cemetery Administration Building upon entry for assembly and directed transport to the site.

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