Obituaries from Newsday
Novella Shockley, who moved with her family to Long Island in the early 1960s to escape racial intimidation in Delaware and was the district's only black teacher when she retired from the Plainedge school system nearly a quarter century later, died in her sleep on Oct. 10, 2018. Shockley, shown in an undated photo, was 99.
Newsday's obituary for Novella Shockley
Photo Credit: Shockley family
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Health
They weren't 'too young' to have breast cancer
Melissa Rojas was a week away from her first wedding anniversary when she learned
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Business
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65
Earlier this month Paul Allen said the cancer he was treated for in 2009, non-Hodgkin's
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Football
Jim Taylor, Hall of Fame fullback for Packers, dies
Jim Taylor, the ferocious Hall of Fame fullback who embodied the Green Bay Packers' unstoppable
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Obituaries
Notable deaths: Long Islanders we recently lost
Remember notable Long Islanders who recently died.
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Nation
Betty Grissom, widow of astronaut, dies at 91
Betty Lavonne Grissom, who successfully sued a NASA contractor after her husband, Virgil “Gus” Grissom,
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Basketball
Tex Winter, innovative basketball coach, dead at 96
Tex Winter, the innovative "Triangle Offense" pioneer who assisted Phil Jackson on 11 NBA championship
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Obituaries
LI violinist, music teacher dies at 82
Thomas Karolyi escaped the Holocaust and Communist Hungary and became a renowned Huntington schools music
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Obituaries
LI Notable Deaths: January 2013 through June 2013
Long Island notable deaths from January 2013 through June 2013.
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Obituaries
LIer who stopped $6B LI nuclear plant dies at 93
Irving Like was the top legal strategist in stopping the opening of the $6 billion
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Obituaries
Retired Suffolk Police Sgt. Dennis Reichardt dies
Whether it was a gunman firing at him or cancer causing him pain, Dennis Reichardt,
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Obituaries
First principal of LI middle school dies
Anthony Joseph Agoglia was known as a “gentle man” with a “gentle smile.” A lifelong
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Obituaries
WWII sergeant who serviced military planes dies
Leonard Pecora served in the Himalayas and went on to maintain trains and work with