Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Services for Anne Murray, who died on Thursday, will be at local church.
A memorial service for Anne Murray – the 87-year old woman who died on Thursday when her car plunged into Port Jefferson Harbor – will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church on Route 112 in Port Jefferson Station. Before she died, Murray was still active in the community as a driver for Three Village Meals on Wheels operating out of Mather Hospital in Port Jefferson. According to her obituary, Murray née Barr was born on June 10, 1924. Her husband James precceded her and she is survived by her son Daniel and his wife Reyna, Kathy Morgenstern and her husband Joel, and Susan Murray and her husband Evangelos Kandias. She had six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Murray also had two brothers.
Monday, February 27, 2012
War veteran and volunteer fireman from Mt. Sinai dies at 92.
World War II veteran and longtime Mt. Sinai Fire Department volunteer and Captain, Louis H. Rowehl, of Mt. Sinai, passed away on Feb. 24 at the age of 92. Rowehl was at Normandy during the invasion as a part of the 802nd Tank Destroyer Battalion. He received a Purple Heart for being wounded days later and held the shrapnel in his back for the remainder of his life. The veteran joined the Mount Sinai Fire Department in 1968. Before that, he was a member of the Hicksville Fire Department for 18 years. The majority of his 60-plus years as a fireman was spent as a member of the fire police. Rowehl was recently honored at Heritage Park in Mt. Sinai for his service as a tank driver during WWII. At that ceremony, his daughter Noreen Rowehl …
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Moraitis was born and raised on the Poulos Farm in East Setauket.
Alice E. Moraitis, an East Setauket native who was the daughter of the family who owned the Poulos Farm on Pond Path, died Jan. 19 at the age of 84 in Ikaria, Greece. Moraitis was born in 1927 on the farm, a property of more than 20 acres that was at one point home to more than 3,000 chickens, cows, goats and sheep, according to her son, George Moraitis. Her family operated the farm as a dairy and egg delivery business until the 1960s, after which point it became a 15-bedroom boarding house for workers and students and eventually became the present-day Pond Path Estates. Following her graduation from Setauket High School, Moraitis went to work at Delano Studios in Setauket, a maker of ceramic products, her son said. She met her future …
Monday, August 22, 2011
Bredes led the charge against the Shoreham nuclear power plant.
Former Suffolk County Legislator Nora Bredes, who was one of the most outspoken voices against the Shoreham nuclear power plant in the 1980s, died Thursday at the age of 60 after losing her battle with breast cancer. Bredes held the Fifth Legislative District seat from 1992 to 1998, during which time she fought for anti-tobacco legislation, open space preservation, and better protection for victims of domestic violence. One year after she left the legislature, she became the director of the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women’s Leadership at the University of Rochester. "Her research on women in politics had an impact on the democratic process at the state, regional, and national levels," Rochester President Joel Seligman said in a statement…
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Dr. John H. Marburger, III died at 70 after a four year battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
Dr. John (Jack) H. Marburger III of Port Jefferson died July 28 at his home at the age of 70 after a four-year battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. As President George W. Bush’s Science Adviser, the post created in the 1960s by John F. Kennedy, Marburger held that position longer than any of his predecessors, though Long Islanders will remember him more for his prior leadership as president of Stony Brook University and subsequently as director of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Marburger, born in Staten Island on Feb. 8, 1941, was a physicist before he became an administrator, earning a degree in physics from Princeton (1962) and applied physics from Stanford (1967). Marburger became BNL director in March, 1998, at a time when the lab was …
Monday, February 28, 2011
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Marian Larson
11:53 am on Monday, February 27, 2012
Our condolences to the Rowehl family on the passing of your father. We thank him for his service to our country. God bless. more ›