Obituaries from Newsday

Cathy Moramarco somehow managed to squeeze everything in, juggling her private life as wife and mother of three with her public life as one of Westbury's biggest boosters.

"People trusted him and they believed him when he said 'You can do this,'" his wife said. "That makes a big difference when someone believes in you."

More than 100 members of his Garden City-based unit, the 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines reserve infantry, waited in line to pay their respects.

Barbara C. Harrington, a Bay Shore mother of seven, was considered the "center of the ripple" and the "common denominator" of the family.

There will be a wake for former Suffolk Police Commissioner Richard Dormer Thursday and Friday ...

Fifty three years after co-founding what's now the Association for Children with Down Syndrome in Plainview, Maria Hartman died April 14 following a long struggle with Alzheimer's, her family said.

Former Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer died at his home in Northport surrounded by family after a three-year battle with cancer, his son Michael Dormer said. He was 79.

She moved to the U.S as a teen during the Great Depression after the Ursuline Sisters of Tildonk visited Ireland looking for recruits. She said, "We decided that's a good thing to do ... to help build the future of America, in a very small way."

Kim Hardwick died unexpectedly Monday after complications from surgery.

Louis Riina was the assistant director of the burn center at NUMC in East Meadow for more than 10 years and a partner at the Long Island Plastic Surgical Group.