Berthold D. Willenbrock, ex-Farmingdale State College dean, dies at 97
Berthold Daniel Willenbrock believed in second chances and, as dean of students at Farmingdale State College, encouraged generations to take advantage of their potential.
View ArticleDr. Bruno Lambert dies at 103; internist fled Nazi Germany, returned as a...
Dr. Bruno Lambert, who escaped Nazi Germany, returned as a liberating American soldier and then worked as an internist in New York City for more than half a century, died Nov. 14 from natural causes in...
View Article'Mary Poppins' choreographer Marc Breaux dies
When Dick Van Dyke got the role of Bert in the 1964 movie musical "Mary Poppins," Walt Disney asked him if he had a recommendation for a choreographer. Van Dyke recalled working with the team of Marc...
View ArticleBernice Petersen, 90, Brookhaven lab newsletter editor, dies
Bernice Petersen's articles for Brookhaven National Laboratory's employee newsletter were about more than photons and superconductors.
View ArticleVirginia Sikinger, former Islip public works supervisor, dies at 72
Virginia Sikinger was devoted to her grandchildren, Jimmy Buffett concerts and marching in St. Patrick's Day parades, her family said, and she happily shared her joy for life with both loved ones and...
View ArticleRoberta Yannelli, Rockville Centre nurse and teacher, dies at 71
Roberta Yannelli, a Rockville Centre nurse and schoolteacher who inspired a generation of students during her two-decade battle with cancer, died Nov. 14 at Meadowbrook Care Center in Freeport,...
View ArticleLongtime Lloyd Harbor Mayor Leland Hairr dies at 72
Leland Hairr, the longtime mayor of Lloyd Harbor, died Friday after a long battle with prostate cancer. He was 72.
View ArticleFormer CIA cold warrior Gardner Hathaway dies
Gardner R. Hathaway, a former CIA chief of counterintelligence whose nearly four-decade career with the agency took him to Cold War focal points ranging from Berlin to Moscow and placed him at the...
View ArticleLou Brissie, major league pitcher despite war wounds, dies
Lou Brissie, who made an inspiring recovery from severe leg wounds during World War II to become an all-star pitcher in the major leagues, died Monday at a veterans hospital in Augusta, Ga. He was 89.
View ArticlePeter Kaplan dead, ex-editor of The New York Observer who hired 'Sex and the...
Peter Kaplan, the former editor of The New York Observer who hired a then-unknown Candace Bushnell to write a column called "Sex and the City," has died. He was 59.
View ArticlePeter Kaplan, ex-NY Observer editor, dies
Peter W. Kaplan, the former New York Observer editor who cast a sardonic lens on Manhattan's ruling-class while still evincing a romantic's view of the city, has died. He was 59.
View ArticleLouis F. Sposato, former Nassau County clerk, dies
Louis F. Sposato, a longtime Republican committeeman from Oyster Bay, Nassau County clerk and deputy in the sheriff's department that his grandson would oversee in the next century, has died. He was 93.
View ArticleJoseph Iavarone, Iavarone Bros. founder, dies at 88
Joseph Iavarone, founder and patriarch of Iavarone Bros., Long Island's homegrown specialty food chain, died of cardiac arrest Sunday at his home in Garden City. He was 88 and had suffered a stroke in...
View ArticleWWII interpreter Curtis Sloan of Bethpage dies at 91
Curtis S. Sloan, a Bronze Star Medal recipient who escaped his Nazi Germany home at 14 only to return eight years later as a translator during World War II, died Dec. 1 at Plainview Hospital of...
View ArticleSister Janet Fitzgerald, former president of Molloy College, dies
Sister Janet A. Fitzgerald was 37 when she was named president of Molloy College in Rockville Centre, making her one of the youngest college presidents in the nation at the time.
View ArticleMichael Kammen, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 77
Michael Kammen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at Cornell University whose many books explored the Constitution, the concept of American identity and sweeping views of cultural and social history,...
View ArticleEditor and poet Ruth Boorstin dies
Ruth Boorstin, the stalwart collaborator and editor of her late husband, former librarian of Congress and prizewinning historian Daniel Boorstin, died Dec. 1 at an assisted-living center in Encino,...
View ArticlePioneering sports agent Art Kaminsky dies at 66
To the very end, Art Kaminsky willed himself to be there for his friend, client and college.
View ArticleEast Hampton's Lee Hayes, ex-Tuskegee Airman, dies
Lee A. Hayes of East Hampton, who bombed enemy forces from the cockpit of a B-25 during World War II as a member of the legendary all-black Tuskegee Airmen, died Wednesday at the home he built more...
View ArticleWWII mechanic Elliot H. Seagraves dies at 96
Elliott H. Seagraves served his country as an aircraft mechanic during World War II and later worked for the Grumman Corp., where he helped assemble fighter planes and the lunar module.
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