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Teresa Ryan, Hempstead team mother, dies at 96

Teresa Jean Ryan, who played team mother to generations of young athletes in Hempstead Village, has died at 96, relatives said.

A village resident since 1946, Ryan supported Hempstead's Salvation Army youth basketball teams beginning in 1961, when her son Don Ryan, now a Hempstead Village trustee, started coaching them, he said.

For decades, she threw annual Christmas parties for the...

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