Harry Richard Smith, World War II Navy vet, ex-teacher, dead at 89
Harry Richard Smith, of Bethpage, a World War II Navy veteran and former Long Island schoolteacher, died Saturday of a heart attack at the Huntington Hills Rehabilitation Center in Melville.
View ArticleCatherine Baker Schnabel dies; LI piano teacher and political advocate was 95
Catherine Baker Schnabel, a political activist who taught piano to generations of Long Island children, died Sept. 17 at Glen Cove Hospital. She was 95.
View ArticleAlbert 'Tank' Passuello dies; ex-Hofstra football standout was 76
Albert "Tank" Passuello, who at Hofstra University anchored the football team's line as well as performed on stage in a theater department he would later direct, has died. He was 76.
View ArticleSheila Sustrin, children's book author, retired teacher and identical twin,...
After Sheila Sustrin died on Monday at age 76, her identical twin sister, Letty, placed a copy of their latest children's book, "The Teacher Who Would Not Retire Loses Her Ballet Slippers," into her...
View ArticleSusan Petersen Lubow dies; first woman athletic chief at USMMA was 61
A legendary athlete who spent 35 years at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point and was the first female athletic director at any of the five national service academies has died.
View ArticleWalter Jadezuk, Marine sergeant who survived four invasions during World War...
Walter Jadezuk, a Marine sergeant who was among the first wave of troops to go ashore during four separate Pacific invasions in World War II, the last of which claimed the lives of two close friends...
View Article'Mama' Gelsomina Cosentino dies; Italian market owner was 81
One of Gelsomina Cosentino's biggest pet peeves was when customers at her family's Italian market, Gemelli Fine Foods, would ask for linguine with white clam sauce.
View ArticleJohn Yuknes dies; decorated NYPD detective made arrest in 1975 cop killings
John Yuknes believed that if you want to be recognized on the job, you don't seek recognition, you just do your job and do it right.
View ArticleGrace Seifert, ex-volunteer for elderly, dies at 101
Grace Seifert of Rocky Point was in her 40s when she learned to drive a car, in her 60s when she learned to ride a bicycle, and in her 80s when she began delivering meals to homebound elderly who were...
View ArticleLongtime Port Jefferson Village justice Peter J. Graham dies at 85
Port Jefferson Village Justice Peter J. Graham, who took the bench in 1983 and was the longest-serving judge in the village's 52-year history, has died.
View ArticleJacqueline Celestino dies; nurse who assisted in the delivery of thousands of...
Jacqueline Hope Celestino of Smithtown often was approached during shopping trips by parents who asked her, "Do you by any chance work in the delivery room?"
View ArticleJohn 'Jack' Irwin, longtime advocate for Irish-American affairs, dead at 84
John "Jack" Irwin, the son of Irish immigrants who was a driving force in numerous Irish-American organizations, had worked as an Irish affairs adviser in the Pataki administration and routinely...
View ArticleMildred Little dies; activist for racial justice on Long Island was 88
Mildred Little, who fought pollution, absentee landlords and drug dealers as a community activist in North Hempstead for more than half a century, died in her Westbury home Thursday. She was 88.
View ArticleFilmmaker Michael Stevens dies at 48
LOS ANGELES -- Michael Stevens' grandfather was an Oscar-winning director, his father the founder of the American Film Institute.
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View ArticleEugene P. Higgins dies; retired Newsday ad exec was 94
Co-workers at Newsday -- and most of his own family -- knew Eugene P. Higgins of Bay Shore as a good guy, a good ad salesman, and a good father.
View ArticleE. Virgil Conway dies; former MTA chairman was 85
Former MTA chairman E. Virgil Conway, who led the largest public transportation agency in the nation from 1995 to 2001, died in Southampton, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said.
View ArticleJohn Jennings dies; music producer and guitarist was 61
John Jennings, a music producer and blues and folk guitarist who helped launch the career of singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, died Oct. 16 at a hospice center in Rockville, Maryland. He was 61.
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View ArticleLongtime LI builder Augustus J. Nazzaro dead at 81
Among the things that made Augustus J. Nazzaro especially proud was driving around parts of Deer Park and North Babylon, pointing to homes, in some areas one on every block, that he and his partner at...
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