Long Islanders we've lost in 2022

The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, an influential Harlem pastor and the longest serving president of the State University of New York at Old Westbury, died Oct. 28. He was 73. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Anita S. Katz, who was the Suffolk County Democratic Board of Elections commissioner for 20 years after working for the Town of Babylon, died Aug. 9. She was 69. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Aidan Kaminska, a sophomore lacrosse player at the University of Massachusetts and a football and lacrosse star at Port Jefferson High School, died May 30. He was 19. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Alma Galati, an advocate for the Rockville Centre Hispanic community and longtime Rockville Centre teacher who helped implement one of the first ESL programs on Long Island, died Jan. 31. She was 88. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Joseph N. Mondello, a former United States ambassador, Hempstead Town supervisor and attorney who was chairman of the Nassau County Republican Committee for more than three decades, died Aug. 1. He was 84. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Michael Fischer, an Island Park Fire Department volunteer who was born and raised in Island Park, died Aug. 14. He was 38. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Lubin Hunter, who was a Shinnecock Indian Nation elder, the oldest tribal member, a World War II veteran and an activist, died Jan. 17. He was 104. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Dorothy Sellers, a longtime resident of Freeport who rose to become executive secretary to the Seagram’s president, died Oct. 6. She was 109. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Delores Quintyne, a North Amityville resident who fought racial discrimination in housing and pushed for better conditions for migrant workers, died April 8. She was 88. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Corey Phelan, a Harborfields High School graduate from Greenlawn who was a pitcher in the Philadelphia Phillies' minor-league system, died Oct. 12. He was 20. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Janice Tyler, who wrote about building and renovating homes for Newsday over three decades, died June 1. She was 95. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Vincent Grucci, who left his family's Bellport fireworks business to become a financial planner and created an events series to help revitalize downtown Patchogue, died Nov. 27. He was 58. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Henrietta Dobin, an Atlantic Beach resident who was thought to be the oldest Long Islander, died Sept. 1. She was 111. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Alvin Bessent, a longtime Newsday reporter and editorial writer who had a 29-year career at the paper, died Aug. 29. He was 73. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Ruth Mermelstein, a North Bellmore resident who survived Auschwitz and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, died Oct. 16. She was 93. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Steven Skrynecki, Southampton Town police chief and former Nassau County Police Department chief , died Oct. 6. He was 69. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Toni A. Bean, a lifelong Amityville resident, the second African American woman to serve as a Suffolk County District Court judge and a mentor to young lawyers of color, died March 19. She was 62. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Joseph Scannell, a former Nassau County legislator who loved serving the South Shore and his community of Baldwin, died May 13. He was 59. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Billy McCall, a community activist and former deputy director of the Nassau County Economic Opportunity Commission, died March 15. He was 84. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Muriel Broxmeyer, a Port Washington matriarch who broke gender barriers in real estate and helped launch Fairfield Properties, died Aug. 16. She was 92. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Bishop Ronald H. Carter, founder and leader of Refuge Apostolic Church of Christ in Freeport for more than 50 years, died Nov. 6. He was 84. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Rose Walton, a LGBTQ advocate who headed the quest to bring HIV/AIDS care to eastern Long Island and was an early advocate for gay rights, died April 9. She was 85. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Raymond Damadian, a Woodbury resident and physician who revolutionized medicine by inventing the first MRI machine, died Aug. 3. He was 86. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Evelyn Pike Rubin, a Jericho resident and Holocaust survivor who spent the duration of World War II in the Shanghai Ghetto, died April 15. She was 91. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Charles Edward Entenmann, who helped grow his family’s namesake bakery in Bay Shore into a national brand and shared his wealth with community institutions, died Feb. 24. He was 92. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Patricia Grant Flynn, a Suffolk County District Court judge who was named Judge of the Year by the Suffolk County Criminal Bar Association, died Sept. 23. She was 63. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Richard Frederick Mereday, a longtime Republican leader from Roosevelt who became the first Black man appointed to the executive committee of a major county political party on Long Island, died Jan. 7. He was 93. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Rusty Mae Moore, left, a longtime Hofstra University educator and transgender activist who sheltered transgender people in her Brooklyn home from the mid-1990s to the late 2000s, died Feb. 23. She was 80. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Lee Koppelman, a suburban planner who helped shape Long Island’s parks, roads, mass transportation and economic hubs, died March 21. He was 94. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Michael Tangney, former Long Beach Police Commissioner who served the city’s police department for 42 years, died March 9. He was 66. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Steve Haweeli, the founder and owner of WordHampton PR in East Hampton for 30 years, died Aug. 23. He was 68. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Stephany and Carl Ferguson, pillars of the Hempstead Village community who were immersed in church activities and community service, died on Jan. 25. She was 73 and he was 71. Read Newsday's obituary here.

James “Jimmy” McBride, a longtime Newsday employee who worked as a platemaker for 43 years, died April 15. He was 84. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Gail Grasso, a former Plainview resident who distinguished herself at two Long Island institutions, Cablevision and Grasso’s restaurant in Cold Spring Harbor, died April 18. She was 70. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Al Cohn, a longtime Newsday writer and People page editor known for his interviews with top celebrities of the 1970s and 1980s, died Nov. 12. He was 84. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Geraldine Shanahan, who helped earn a Pulitzer Prize for Newsday by tracking down secret land deals before moving on to the New York Times, died May 15. She was 76. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Cleveland Johnson Jr., a civic leader who served in Suffolk County and Islip Town government, including as deputy county executive, Islip Town deputy supervisor and Central Islip school board president, died Oct. 23. He was 88. Read Newsday's obituary here.

John Bingham, a Rockville Centre native and longtime advocate for immigrants and refugees with Catholic Charities, died July 26. He was 64. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Viorel Florescu, the globe-trotting, Pulitzer-prize winning, former Newsday photographer who documented war, terrorism and revolution, as well as everyday life in New York City and on Long Island, died April 30. He was 72. Read Newsday's obituary here.

Richard Rosenberg, a copy editor who worked at Newsday for 25 years, died Jan. 23. He was 65. Read Newsday's obituary here.