Longtime Greenport resident Louis Cleon Swain died June 22. He was 60.

He was born Nov. 1, 1954, in Morehead City, N.C., to Hazel (Lawrence) and Cecil Swain. He married Valerie Ann (née Lewis) Swain April 19, 1983, in Greenport.

Mr. Swain worked at Penny Lumber in Greenport for 23 years.

Predeceased by his father in 1972, his mother in 1989, and his brother, Cecil Jr., in 2012, Mr. Swain is survived by his wife; his sons, Louis Jr. and Matthew of Greenport; and his sister, Cecilia Eubanks.

The family received visitors June 25 at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. A service was held June 26 at the funeral home, officiated by Father Richard Hoerning. Burial took place at St. Agnes R.C. Church Cemetery in Greenport.

Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society.

Edwin “Ed” Ruettiger

Longtime Cutchogue summer resident Edwin “Ed” J. Ruettiger of Peconic Landing in Greenport, died June 24 at Peconic Landing. He was 87.

Mr. Ruettiger was born March 31, 1928, in Forest Hills to Mae (Hanratty) and Joseph Ruettiger. He married Joan Quinn May 11, 1956, at Our Lady of Lourdes R.C. Church in Brooklyn.

Mr. Ruettiger served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, achieving the rank of sergeant first class.

He was the owner of Ruttco Manufacturing Company in Forest Hills for 30 years and worked as an analyst for New York Board of Education for 10 years.

Mr. Ruettiger was an active member with the American Legion and received a 50-year membership award.

Family members said he was a champion bowler, a golfer and excelled at following and investing in the stock market.

Predeceased by his sister, Helene, he is survived by his wife; his five daughters, Patricia Zablocky, Linda Young, Cindy Sledz, Nancy Marsicano, Diane Pautke; 10 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

A memorial Mass will take place Friday, July 3, at St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport. Interment will take place at Calverton National Cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to John’s Place at St. Agnes R.C. Church, 523 Front St., Greenport, NY 11944.

Arrangements were in the care of Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport.

Richard J. Fogarty of Mattituck died June 27, 2015, at his home surrounded by his family He was 79 years old and had been ill with Parkinson’s disease. 

He was born Oct. 15, 1935, in New York City to Albert and Irene (Regan) Fogarty.

On November 26, 1960, Richie married the former Frances Carmody at St. Joseph R.C. Church in the Yorkville section of Manhattan.

Richie served in the U.S. Army  from 1954 to 1956 during the Korean War.

He attended machine and metal trades school and enjoyed a long career as an Ornamental Iron Worker with Local 580, 361 & 46 ironworkers unions.

In the community, he was a member of Sacred Heart Parish, where he was a Eucharistic minister and  was a member of Knights of Columbus where he was a 4^th Degree Knight and past Grand Knight District Deputy. He was also a former member of Mattituck Fire Department.

Surviving is his wife Fran; two daughters, MaryKate Fogarty (Christopher Lesiewicz) of Center Moriches and Deirdre (Richard) Anderson of Riverhead; a brother Albert “Buddy” Fogarty of Mattituck; grandchildren: Jason (Erin), Brendan (Janet), Katie, Christina, Christian and Ryan and great-grandchildren: Emma Grace, Micaela, Isabelle, Holland, Beckham and one more expected soon and many nieces and nephews.

The family will receive visitors Tuesday, June 30, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Mattituck. The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 1, at Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church in Mattituck. Interment with U.S. Army honors, will follow at Calverton National Cemetery.

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Joan Kuehl of Riverhead died June 19. She was 75.

Ms. Kuehl was born in Brooklyn, May 7, 1940, to Virginia (VanDenHeuval) and Frank Tyrell.

In 1960, she married Hans J. Kuehl and together they made their home in Flushing and later West Hempstead and Lindenhurst. Upon retirement, they moved to North Carolina and Florida. Eventually they returned to Long Island and settled in Jamesport and more recently Riverhead.

For many years, Ms. Kuehl worked as a secretary for W.A. Baum, Co., in Copiague; the manufacturers of blood pressure apparatus.

Family members said she will be remembered as a devoted wife, mother and friends. She enjoyed traveling and crocheting.

Predeceased by her husband Hans J. Kuehl, Jan. 25, 2012; Ms. Kuehl is survived by four sons, John, Joseph and Paul, all of Lindenhurst and James of Arizona and two grandchildren.

The family received visitors June 25 at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Mattituck. A funeral service was held June 26 at the funeral home, officiated by the Rev. George Summers. Interment took place at Calverton National Cemetery.

Memorial donations to the American Cancer Society would be appreciated.

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Ann Isabel Boyle of Orient and Slingerlands, N.Y. died June 26 at Reformed Church Home in Old Bridge, N.J. She was 77. 

She was born Feb. 6, 1938, in the Bronx to Anna (Jones) and John Kreppein. She married James Boyle Feb. 6, 1960, at St. Luke Church in Whitestone, Queens.

Ms. Boyle graduated from St. John’s University in New York with a degree in elementary education. She worked as a  teacher for Port Washington School District for two years and as a teacher for Albany Adult Education Department for 15 years.

She was an active member of St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Delamar, N.Y. and St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport. Family members said she enjoyed painting nautical and nature scenes and also enjoyed traveling with her husband.

Predeceased by her brother John Kreppein, Ms. Boyle is survived by her husband, James, of Old Bridge, N.J.; her daughters, Susanne Mullman of Westfield, N.J., Catherine Lenihan of Waterbury, Conn. and Nancy Myers of Westfield, N.J.; her son, Thomas, of Lemont, Ill.; her brother Peter Kreppein, of Cutchogue and 11 grandchildren.

A funeral service was held June 30 at St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport, officiated by Father Richard Hoernig. Interment took place at the church cemetery.

Memorial donations may be sent to St. Agnes Parish Outreach, 523 Front St., Greenport, NY 11944.

Arrangements were in the care of Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport.

Joan Sharot Sinramm

Joan”Joannie”Sharot Sinramm of Southold died May 28. She was 69.

Joan was born in Brooklyn, July 29, 1945, to Margaret (Eckart) and William Sharot. She grew up in Hollis, Queens and was a top student throughout elementary and high school years. Joan summered in Southold in the late ’50s with her family, married Otto “Chip” Sinramm in 1970 and later moved to Southold in 1975.

Joan attended Adelphi University, Southampton College and Suffolk County Community College, maintaining a 4.0 GPA. She began a 13-year career at American Tobacco on Park Avenue in New York City in the typing pool and was quickly promoted to one of the most prestigious secretarial positions in the company, assigned to the senior executive vice-president. Joan later worked for Southold builder George Ahlers. She then moved on to estate work as a legal secretary for Rudy Bruer and later, Camenetti and Gibbons. Her remaining career was for Southold Town Highway Department as secretary to superintendents Ray Jacobs, Pete Harris and Vincent Orlando.

For many years Joan was an avid tennis player and did fundraising for Huggy Bear Invitational Tennis Tournament and East End Hospice. She was a talented artist and a gifted writer. Joan had a great appreciation and lover for music, art and literature. She was fun-loving and enjoyed the holidays; always finding special gifts for family and friends. Joan was creative and intelligent, and most of all, loving and caring, always thinking of others before herself even in her most difficult times.

Joan touched everyone she knew, from her lifelong friends to the people she worked with and everyday folks she would see in town. She was truly one-of-a-kind. Words fail to fully express who Joan really was. As the the Frank Sinatra recording says, she was “Too Marvelous for Words.”

Joan was predeceased by her husband, Otto “Chip.” She is survived by her cousin, Craig Von Bargen of Peconic; his daughters, Lauren Von Bargen of Astoria, N.Y. and Blair Mauri of Park Slope, Brooklyn and cousins Claire Harding of Halesite, N.Y. and Robert Sandmann of Milford, Conn.

Services were held June 8 at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold. Burial took place at First Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Southold.

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Longtime Riverhead resident Geraldine A. Hamill died in the early hours of June 19, 2015, at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead with her sons by her side. She was 80.

Geraldine was a Columbiette since 1984. She faithfully served at the Bread and More, INN (Soup Kitchen) at First Congregational Church of Riverhead for years. She was a member of St. John the Evangelist R.C. Church and Food Pantry in Riverhead. Geraldine devoted her life to helping those who were in need.

Geraldine was predeceased by her husband, Robert J. Hamill, in 1979. She is survived by her three sons, Robert (Ruth) of Ohio, Patrick of Florida, and Michael (Michele) of Center Moriches; six grandchildren, Amy, Robert, Parker, Kayleigh, Courtney, and Ashley; four siblings, Elizabeth Miles of Valley Forge, Pa., Mary L. Cannon of Granite Bay, Calif., Eileen Broich of East Moriches and Thomas Uhlinger of Cutchogue; her brother-in-law, Dennis (Patricia) of Riverhead; numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and close family friends.

A Mass of Christian Burial was held June 23 at St. John the Evangelist R.C. Church. Interment will be private at Calverton National Cemetery at a future date.

In keeping with our mother’s wishes, she asked that donations be made in her name to any of the following: Bread and More INN (Soup Kitchen) c/o First Congregational Church of Riverhead, 103 First St., Riverhead, NY  11901;  Long Island Council of Churches, 407 Osborn Ave., Riverhead, NY  11901; or East End Hospice, 209 Mill Road, Westhampton Beach, NY 11978.

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Longtime Southold resident John Donald Bender died peacefully June 20 at his home. He would have been 88 on July 25, 2015.

He was born July 25, 1927, in Patterson, N.J. to John L. and Freda (Bruhin) Bender.

John was a World War II U.S. Navy Veteran, enlisting on his 17th birthday and serving in the Philippines as well as the USS Kearsage. During his time of service, he won multiple awards.  He continued his service in the Naval reserves for several years.

His work career had many reincarnations. John bartended at Bender’s Café, the family business in Patterson and later drove fuel trucks, worked for a roofing company and drove tour buses. His main career was in quality control, first working for Ford Motor Company and later getting into the newly developing aerospace industry.

John met his wife, Jane (née GaNun) at Singer Kearfott Industries while working on the Lunar Lending module (LEM) that was eventually sent to the moon. They were married Dec. 29, 1971, in Riverhead. In the early ’70s, he moved his family to the North Fork and began working for Grumman Aerospace. He retired from Grumman in 1998, but continued working, driving tour buses and limousines, enjoying the people and places for many years.

John was a member of the Moose Club. He was also a member of Mattituck Gun Club and  loved  hunting, fishing, competition shooting. Most importantly he loved spending time with family.

He leaves behind his loving wife of over 40 years, Jane, his two daughters, Janique (Robert) Nine of Mattituck and Judith (James) Finn of Huntington Station and two granddaughters, Cassandra and Teagan.

A memorial service will take place Thursday, July 9, at 1 p.m. at Calverton National Cemetery. Cremation was private.

Arrangements are in the care of Coster-Heppner Funeral Home in Cutchogue.

The family requests that memorial donations in John’s name be made to East End Hospice or Wounded Warrior project.

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Catherine Sucic of Southold died July 5. She was 86.

She was born Feb. 17, 1929, in Manhattan to John and Lucy (Santic) Fugosich.
A summer resident since 1967, Ms. Sucic moved to Southold permanently in 1994 from Astoria, where she was a communicant of Most Precious Blood R.C. Church.

Locally, Ms. Sucic was a member of Southold Senior Citizens, Greenport Homemakers and Eastern Long Island Hospital Opportunity Shop, where she volunteered every Saturday.

Predeceased by her husband, Nick, Oct. 19, 1990, she is survived by her children, Nicholas of Ridgewood, N.Y., Steve of Southold, MaryAnn Fiore of Flushing, N.Y. and Dorothy Freda of New Hyde Park; a brother: Nick Fugosich of Southold; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her brother, John Fugosich.

The family will receive visitors Thursday, July 9, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold. The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Friday, July 10, at St. Patrick R.C. Church in Southold. Interment will follow at Calverton National Cemetery.

Henry Halama

Henry Halama, born in 1929 in Czechoslovakia, passed away June 20, 2015 at the age of 86. He loved Long Island and lived there most of his adult life including Shoreham, Shelter Island and Amagansett. 

As a child he dreamed of becoming a poet, however his fight against communism forced him to escape from his beloved country in 1948.  He traveled with his dear friend Milan Ondrich through Germany, Sweden and eventually to Canada. In 1958, he was invited to Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he worked for the next 34 years. He published many scientific papers and was known internationally for his research on high energy physics.

After his retirement he began painting landscapes in pastels and oils. He captured many of his favorite places on the canvas, including mountains he had hiked and waters he had paddled. In addition to writing poetry and birding he began to lead trips in his newer hobbies of butterflies and mushrooms. He moved to Woodstock, N.Y. in 2004 to be close to one of his passions: skiing. He spent as much time as possible on the slopes, never discouraged by poor conditions, just thrilled to absorb the wind in his hair and Mother Nature all around.

In 2013 he published a compilation of his poetry since ’65, entitled “Henry Halama Poems”

It includes this later poem:

END GAME

Slowly, as the twilight creeps in,

time is trying hard to take away from me

my pleasures one by one.

So far it seems, as if some invisible force,

some inner strength perhaps

is slowing his progress.

Autumn like other seasons has his charms

as Keats so well expressed

in “mists and mellow fruitfulness”.

Deep in my soul I hear a voice:

“Let falling leaves be messengers of hope

not of despair. Let muted golds and singing reds

give a new meaning to your days!’

I think of unchanged starry nights,

their velvet darkness, the endless loves

they generously gave, when I was young.

Yes, a few coveted pleasures pass me by,

but many more remain to lure a smile

on a cloudy morning’s frowning face.

Yes, Life is good and may be better still.

He is survived by his loving partner, Jane Schmitz; his daughter Caroline Ford and her husband Roger Ford; his son, Henry Halama and partner, Patty Malloy; his daughter Vlasta Benedict and her husband Marc Benedict; his grandchildren Matthew Ford, Nalo and Corrina Benedict and his great-grandchildren, Brayden and Brice Ford.

Henry was a passionate man with infinite energy.  Jane and Henry pursued their interest in classical music, attending many concerts at Bard and Maverick, the Met Operas Live at Time & Space Limited (TSL) and choral concerts. He particularly enjoyed “Doug Fox’s Opera Night” on WMNR and phoned in his reaction each week.

Henry was fascinated by cosmology, spending hours looking up at the stars. His love for the cosmos became an inspiration for research, his poetry and his painting.

Henry hiked all the Adirondack peaks with his daughter Caroline to become a 46er at the age of 62. He went on to become a member of the 3500 club. He loved the snow and Hunter Mountain and taught all his kids to ski. To know him was to know speed.

Henry was happiest outdoors with binoculars around his neck. Whether in a canoe, on a mountaintop, in a tent, in the woods, in a meadow or sitting beneath the stars in front of a fire, immersed in nature was where he loved to be. No matter what conditions life had to offer, there was always a patch of blue sky for Henry.

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Former Greenport resident Arlene Joan “Susie” Lewis, longtime resident of San Francisco, Calif. died July 5. She was 81.

She was born Jan. 29, 1934, in Brooklyn to Norma (Clifford) and Harry Joseph Lewis and attended Greenport schools.

Ms. Lewis served in the U.S. Air Force from 1953 to 1956, achieving the rank of airman 2nd class.

For 30 years, Ms. Lewis was assistant vice president of customer service: cash management at Bank of America.

Predeceased by her brother, Harry; Ms. Lewis is survived by her spouse, Linda Masotti; her sister, Valerie Swain, her brother, William Lewis and many nieces and nephews.

A graveside service will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 11, at St. Agnes R.C. Cemetery in Greenport, officiated by Father James Mary Atikins, CFR.

Memorial donations may be made to Greenport Fire Department, P.O. Box 58, Greenport, NY 11944.

Arrangements were in the care of Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport.

George Cottral

Former Greenport resident George Ace Cottral passed away June 21, 2015, at his home in Apple Valley, Calif., surrounded by family. He was 75.

Ace was born July 10, 1939, in Nashville, Tenn. to Anna and George Cottral and lived in Michigan before moving to Greenport with his family. He graduated from Greenport High School in 1957.

Ace served in the U.S. Army during the late 1950s and early 1960s, where he learned histotechnology. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Columbia University and from 1963 to 1978, continued his career in histology and research.

Ace returned to Greenport in 1978 after marrying Carolyn. He worked for Port of Egypt fishing station in Southold and became co-owner of C&L Realty, Inc. He later became owner of Pleasures of the Sea, Inc. and Ace’s Toy Chest in Greenport. In 1998, Ace  and his family moved to Livermore, Calif., where he continued to operate other retail establishments.

Ace  had a “strong entrepreneurial spirit” and was an avid birdwatcher and bird photographer, who enjoyed reading, fishing, golf, his community and spending time with family, friends and his dog, Jack.

Ace is survived by his wife of 37 years, Carolyn; their daughter, Nicole Cutright; his son, Steven and daughter Constance Person from a previous marriage; his two sisters, Kae Lieblein and Nancy Mazzaferro; nine grandchildren; two-great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.

A celebration of Ace’s life will take place at a later date and time.

Donations may be made to American Cancer Society.

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Longtime East Marion resident George Neamonitis died July 13. He was 85.

Mr. Neamonitis was born March 15, 1930, in Chios, Greece, to Kalliope Mourounas and Augustus Neamonitis. He married Koula Lyras Feb. 28, 1960, in Brooklyn.

Mr. Neamonitis was a member of Saints Anargyroi, Taxiarchis and Gerasimos Greek Orthodox Church in Greenport where he also served on the parish council.

Family members said he enjoyed gardening, bicycling, swimming and spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren.

Mr. Neamonitis is survived by his wife; his daughters, Kellie Platis of Greenport and Evangelia Vastardis of Staten Island; his brothers, Pantelis, and Nico of Chios, Greece and Mike, of Brooklyn; his sister Eftehia Trafalis of Southold and five grandchildren.

The family will receive visitors Wednesday, July 15, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. A funeral service will take place at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 16, at Saints Anargyroi, Taxiarchis and Gerasimos Greek Orthodox Church. Interment will take place at Sterling Cemetery in Greenport.

Memorial donations may be made to Saints Anargyroi, Taxiarchis and Gerasimos Greek Orthodox Church or Cancer Research Institute, cancerresearch.org.

Frank S. Kull Jr. of Peconic died July 13 at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. He was 77. 

He was born Jan. 23, 1938, in Greenport to Mary (Lenceski) and Frank Kull Sr. He married Florence (née Troyan) July 1, 1962, at St. Isidore R.C. Church in Riverhead.

Mr. Kull served in the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1958. He worked as a farmer for Northville Industries and also as a truck driver for Jay Guild.

Family members said he enjoyed going to casinos, clamming and farming.

Mr. Kull is survived by his wife, Florence, of Peconic; his children, Barbara (Fred) Hansen, Frank III (Rachele) and Laurie (Paul) Wulforst; his grandchildren, Frederick, Sabrina, Antonio and Tessa; three step-grandchildren, Erik, Susan and Johanna; and four step-great-grandchildren, Kyle, Olivia, Lilah and Ella. He was predeceased by his brother, Robert.

The family will receive visitors Wednesday, July 15, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Coster-Heppner Funeral Home in Cutchogue. A funeral service will be held at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, July 16, at the funeral home. Interment will take place at Calverton National Cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to Southold Fire Department Rescue Squad.

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John J. Loetscher Jr. of Hampton Bays died July 9. He was 80.

The family received visitors July 12 at Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Riverhead. Interment took place July 13 at Calverton National Cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or the American Legion.

Arrangements were in the care of McLaughlin Heppner Funeral Home in Riverhead.

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Jane Paris Sweeney (née Tyroler), 81, died at home on July 12, 2015, after a long battle with a rare degenerative neurological disorder.

Jane was a 65-year spring, summer and fall resident of Cutchogue and an avid sailor and swimmer, learning to sail in 1952 at Old Cove Yacht Club in New Suffolk. Born to Felix Tyroler and Eleanor (Parisi) Tyroler in 1934, Jane graduated from Bronxville High School, earned her Bachelor of Arts in music from Cornell University in 1955, and pursued graduate studies at Manhattanville College and SUNY/Purchase.

A piano prodigy from the age of 5, Jane was a much-beloved piano teacher. She was the accompanist and choreographer for Blind Brook High School choirs and musical productions for many years. Jane was a lifelong student of tap, ballet and musical theater, and co-founded and acted with Rye Town Community Theater.

Jane was known as a stellar hostess at her waterfront home, which was always filled with song and dance. For many years she played and performed at the General Wayne Inn in Southold and other local venues, parties, and events. She was a lifelong member of the North Fork Community Theatre in Mattituck.

Jane was cofounder of the Rye Town Conservation Society and worked to protect Blind Brook and the nature conservancy wetlands of Rye and Long Island Sound. She was a lifelong member of North Fork Environmental Council. All who visited her Broadwaters Cove home learned to love the wetlands, creeks, fiddler crabs, horseshoe crabs, oysters, clams, scallops, whelks, mud snails, herons, egrets, and all wildlife.

Preceded in death by her husband, George Fenton Sweeney, in 2001, Jane is survived by her children, Michele Cusack of Novato, Calif., Heather Cusack of New Suffolk, Patrick Sweeney and his wife, Muffie Dunn, of Greenwich, Conn.; her longtime companion, Frederick Green; and grandchildren Michael Cusack, Max Tetrault and Desmond Tetrault of New Suffolk and New York, Patrick Pollak, Brooke Sweeney, Caroline Sweeney, Fin Sweeney and Nathaniel Hamovitz.

Memorial donations may be made to the North Fork Community Theatre or East End Hospice.

Arrangements were entrusted to DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Homes.

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Andrew J. Kirsch of East Marion died July 13. He was 98.

The family will receive visitors Thursday, July 16, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. A funeral Mass will take place at 10 a.m. Friday, July 17, will take place at St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport. Burial will take place at Calverton National Cemetery.

A complete obituary will follow.

Judythe Ann Ghosio, (née Monette), of Greenport, died July 18 after a 12-year battle with early onset Alzheimer’s disease. She was 71 and will surely be missed.

Born June 28, 1944, in Jamaica, Queens, to George and Gertrude Monette, she grew up in Levittown and Northport where, at the age of 14, she met her future husband, Robert Ghosio. After graduating from Northport High School, they married and have been married 51 years. Having lived in the Lake Ronkonkoma area most of their lives, they moved to Greenport in 2003 to be near family.

Judy was a feisty and very intelligent person who worked as Full Charge Bookkeeper and was a very active member of Lake Ronkonkoma United Methodist Church. It was there that she co-founded the nursery school some 40 years ago and acted as the treasurer. She was a devoted volunteer who was also an avid bowler, superb cook, and loved to garden, crochet, and read. She would relax by playing her piano.

Judy was proud of having raised five successful children who give to the church and community. She is survived by her husband, her sons, Robert Jr. (Gail) of Greenport, Christopher (Theresa) of Wading River, Matthew (Kathy) of Shirley, Jonathon (Holly) of Ronkonkoma, her daughter Serena of Tampa, FL., seven grandchildren, Robert III, Zachary, Christa, Kelly, Meghan, David, Jonathon Jr., and her brother Doug Monette (Joanne) of Selden.

The family will receive visitors Tuesday, July 21 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Coster- Heppner Funeral Home in Cutchogue. A memorial service will be conducted at the 7 to 9 p.m. visiting time with private cremation on Wednesday.

Memorial donations can be made to San Simeon by the Sound Adult Daycare Facility at 61700 County Road 48, Greenport NY 11944.

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John P. “Jack” Dewar of Southold died at his home July 18, 2015. He was 68. 

He was born in Queens, June 21, 1947, to John and Julia (née Cashen) Dewar. Raised in Massapequa, he was a graduate of Massapequa High School where he excelled in sports.

On April 1, 1982, he married Carolyn M. (née Zukas) in Southold. Jack had worked for many years at Plum Island Animal Disease Center and later at Calverton National Cemetery. During the evenings, he worked at King Kullen in Cutchogue.

Jack enjoyed fishing and Sudoku puzzles.

Predeceased by his wife Carolyn M. Dewar on January 29, 2014, he is survived by his step-children: Michael (Lynn) Eckhardt of Southold, Michelle Eckhardt of Southold and Melissa (Tim) McGowan of Mattituck; siblings: Jean Kane of Virginia, Carole Powell of Florida and Jim Dewar of Upstate, New York; six grandchildren, Shannon Chute, Jeremy Eckhardt, Kaela and Collin McGowan and Nicholas and Justin Eckhardt and a great-granddaughter, Ariana Chute.

The family will receive visitors Tuesday, July 21, from 4 to 7 p.m. at DeFriest-Grattan Funeral Home in Southold. The Liturgy of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 22, at St. Patrick R.C. Church in Southold. Interment, with U.S. Air Force honors will take place at Calverton National Cemetery.

Memorial donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association, P.O. Box 78960, Phoenix, Arizona 85062-8960, would be appreciated.

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Former longtime Riverhead resident Andrew J. Kirsch of East Marion died July 13. He was 98.

He was born Jan. 8, 1917, in Carrolltown, Pa., to Elizabeth (Pack) and Isadore Kirsch. He married Albina April 8, 1950.

Mr. Kirsch served for four years in the U.S. Army, achieving the rank of lieutenant. He received a Bronze Star for his service.

He earned a Masters of Education at Penn State University and taught for 40 years at Riverhead High School.

Mr. Kirsch was a member and Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary Club of Greenport and volunteered for Literary Volunteers of America and The Salvation Army.

Family members said he enjoyed gardening, boating, skiing, scuba diving, church activities, reading, and loved spending time with his family.

He was predeceased by his wife in 2008; six brothers, Clete, Shawn, Hik, Alvin, Urban and Norbert; and one sister, Marcella.
Mr. Kirsch is survived by his daughters, Paula Albin, Karen (Leo) Lucas, Deborah (Peter) Kolbornsen; six grandchildren, Eric (Jayne), Lisa (Mark), Kerri, Brenden, Kate and Andrew; six great-grandchildren, Daniel (Marie), Brooke (Tony), Erica, Lydia, Jonathan and Felicity; three great-great-grandchildren, Landen, Kaylin and Kaleb; and many nieces and nephews in New York and Pennsylvania.

The family received visitors July 16 at Horton-Mathie Funeral Home in Greenport. A funeral Mass took place July 17 at St. Agnes R.C. Church in Greenport. Burial was at Calverton National Cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to Rotary Club of Greenport, P.O. Box 204, Greenport, NY 11944.

This is a paid notice.