Richard P. Schreiber (2017)

When he was fifteen, Rich told his parents (Richard P. and Mae Pudick Schreiber) when they were returning to their Queens home from a vacation at Baumann’s Brookside that he wanted to live in Greenville one day.

            And that wish came true, and Greenville benefitted ever since.

            Rich was born in 1940, married Carol Baumann, daughter of Russell and Vivian Baumann, in 1961, moved to Yonkers, and returned to Greenville three years later to help her parents with the resort. Rich and Carol’s three children—Richard (Lynn), Rosemary (Kevin Lewis), Courtney (Jason Reinhard—live locally and also manage or help run Baumann’s Brookside. The next generation includes six grandchildren.

            Rich was active in the community, joining the Greenville Volunteer Fire Co. in April 1965, and serving as Chief for five years and Firer Commissioner for over forty years.

            Judge Schreiber was appointed to the position of Town Justice in 1986, a position he was elected to continuously until his death. Rich’s relationship with Robert Rose as Town Justice spanned nineteen years, and as a friend for fifty-one years.

            Rich would say that he was fortunate to know many community leaders and other town and village judges which, along with raising three children and running one of Greenville remaining resorts, gave him a better ability to understand people, especially those who appeared before him in court.

            Rich will be remembered for saying he had a wonderful life in Greenville and that he would change nothing if given a chance to relive his life. He passed away in 2016.

 - by Don Teator, Greenville Town Historian

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            The Two Towers of Local Justice

(this piece was centered on the page above the photos of Robert Rose and Richard Schreiber)

These tributes are written for Robert Rose and Richard Schreiber. The two of them served as Greenville’s two elected justices for nineteen years together, providing a wise