Three Five Towns residents have died

Harriet Jane Zorn, a 36-year former Cedarhurst and Atlantic Beach resident, died on Jan. 19. She was 81.
Zorn was born on Feb. 28, 1930 in Manhattan and attended the Interior Decorating School of Design in New York City. She enjoyed playing mah jong, swimming and decorating houses for close friends and family.
She was married to Robert Zorn for 45 years. He predeceased her in 1998.
Zorn retired to Delray Beach, Fla. She is survived by Richard and Michelle Levi, Garrey and Laurie Lieberman and Regina Zorn, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Services were held on Jan. 22 at Boulevard-Riverside-Hewlett Chapel on Broadway in Hewlett. Zorn was interred at Mount Ararat Cemetery in East Farmingdale.

Aaron Steiger

Lifetime Five Towns resident Aaron Steiger died at home on Jan. 16. He was 96.
Steiger grew up in Cedarhurst and for a brief time lived next door to the woman he would eventually marry. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1933 and attended the University of Arkansas for three years.
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Steiger enlisted in the armed forces and began on the bottom of the command chain, but through his service with the Ice Patrol in New Foundland and Alaska from 1941-’45 he became a Coast Guard commander. For a time he remained in the reserves and commanded three units.
Nine years after the end of World War II, Steiger and Florence were married. “Our families lived next door on Arlington Road when I was a baby, my parents moved and we met again through my sister-in-law,” Florence Steiger said.
Married nearly 58 years, the Steigers had three children. They lived in Woodmere, Cedarhurst and Hewlett.
After the war, Steiger went into sales and became one of top salesman for Corning, selling house wares and garden tools to stores such as the now closed A&S department stores.
“He was a doer, “ said Florence, a former teacher, who remembers her husband as an outgoing, community-oriented person who taught driver’s education, delivered for Meals on Wheels and conducted blood pressure screenings for South Nassau Communities Hospital in Lido Beach, where they worked as a team. She did the paperwork; he did the screenings.
Together they were both very involved with Temple Sinai, which is now part of Temple Am Echad in Lynbrook. “It always meant a lot to us,” Florence said about their temple membership.
Her husband was a jogger before it became popular and a cyclist. “He liked being active, he was just a good person,” she said.
What always amazed Florence about her husband was the amount of people he touched. “We would go somewhere and people would say you were my driving instructor, he made an impression,” she said, adding that the same thing happened during the funeral service at Boulevard-Riverside-Hewlett Chapel on Jan. 19. He was interred at Mt. Ararat Cemetery in East Farmingdale.
In addition to Florence, Steiger is survived by his children and their spouses, Marjorie & Harold Schechter of Wayne, NJ; Ken and Kate Steiger of Tully, NY; Jill and Dave Orbuch, of Minneapolis, Minn.; grandchildren Craig, Carrie, Alex, Drew, Sarah, Elana and Rachel and great grandchildren Tyler and Luke.