Lifelong Rockville Centre resident Barbara Petrilli died on March 3 at Winthrop University Hospital after a brief illness. more

Joan Marie (Moffitt) Pratt, 83, a resident of Autumn House in Viera, Fla. and formerly of Islamorada, Fla. and Rockville Centre, died on March 1, after an eight-year battle with Alzheimer’s. more

William Girasole, a 24-year resident of Rockville Centre, died on Sept. 3 after a long illness. He was 57 years old. more

Rockville Centre resident Robert “Bob” H. Carey died on May 26 after a long illness.   more

Andrew H. Jaret of Rockville Centre died on Jan. 4, just days short of his 57th birthday, after a heroic 4½-year battle with the most aggressive form of multiple myeloma. more

Sally Dietrich Bailey died on April 20. Born on June 23, 1932, she attended the Horace Mann School in Manhattan as a child and South Side High School. more

Evelyn George died peacefully at South Nassau Communities Hospital on Aug. 3. She was 101. Born in Seattle, she went to work for the New York Telephone Company at the age of 16, where she met her husband, William George. Before leaving the telephone company, she taught ceramics and arts and crafts. The couple retired to Florida but upon her husband’s death, she returned to New York and worked at the A. & S. Department store in Hempstead. She eventually retired to the Rockville Centre Nursing Center. She is survived by three children, six grandchildren who knew her as “Grandma Maggie,” and seven great grandchildren. more

Jane Tierman Michaels, a 34-year resident of Rockville Centre, died on July 28 after a long battle with cancer.  more

Mary A. Caparelli-Boltz, a Rockville Centre resident, died peacefully in her sleep on Sept. 14. She was 86. more

Long time Rockville Centre resident Terrence M. O’Grady, 77, died on March 7. more