Longtime West Hempstead resident Raymond LaCasse was just 18 years old when Japanese fighter planes attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The airstrike, which drew the United …
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By Nakeem Grant
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8/1/19
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Angel Gabriel died on June 12 from complications of Alzheimer’s while surrounded by family and friends at his Melbourne, Fla. home. He was 78.
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6/27/19
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Martin Feldstein, a South Side High School graduate who served as a chief economic adviser for President Ronald Reagan, died of cancer on June 11. He was 79.
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By Ben Strack
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6/27/19
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Dorothy Ann McGarvey (née Mainelli), who lived in Rockville Centre for more than 50 years, died on May 7. She was 84.
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6/20/19
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Ellen L. Abrams, née Cooperman, of Rockville Centre, died peacefully on March 27 in the presence of her sons at Whisper Woods in Smithtown. She was 74.
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4/19/19
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Jamison Novello, a sophomore at South Side High School, died on March 22. She was 15.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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4/4/19
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Eugene J. Murray, a lifelong Rockville Centre resident who served as mayor of the village from 1987 to 2007, died on Tuesday at his home. He was 93.
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By Ben Strack
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4/3/19
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Ryan O’Shea, who graduated from South Side High School last June, died on Jan. 11 after he was hit by a train at Rockville Centre’s Long Island Rail Road station. He was 18.
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By Ben Strack
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1/17/19
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Kimiko Schroder, a niece of Rockville Centre Mayor Francis X. Murray, died on Jan. 6 at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, Calif., after an eight-year battle with cancer. She was 12.
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By Ben Strack
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1/16/19
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“The idea that a Holocaust survivor disappears, his story does not,” said Irving Roth, a friend of Ray Fishler’s. “His spirit and soul continues to live.”
Fishler, of Wayne, N.J., a former Rockville Centre resident who shared his stories of the Holocaust to inspire local students and families, died on Nov. 19.
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By Ben Strack
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11/29/18
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