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George E. Gaine, 81, Fishkill Resident
FISHKILL, N.Y. – George E. Gaine, a Dutchess County resident since 1968 and formerly of Peekskill and Long Island, died Saturday, April 30 at St. Luke’s Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh. He was 81.
A son of the late Thomas and Mary A. (McCullagh) Gaine, he was born Dec. 14, 1934, on Long Island. He graduated from Smithtown Branch High School in 1952. After school, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served aboard the USS Hornet during the Korean War.
He was a state trooper for 24 years, last serving with Troop K in Stormville until retiring in 1981. In 1982, he began working as a carrier for th…
Dorothy Ann Shafer, 80, Former Northvale Resident
NORTHVALE, N.J. – Dorothy Ann (Everson) Shafer, of Dunnellon, Fla. and formerly of Hillsdale and Northvale, died Thursday, April 28. She was 80.
She loved a good party and was the first and last on the dance floor.
She was the wife of Ralph for 65 years this July; mother of Linda Ettinger and husband, Harold, of El Paso, Texas, Robin Shafer of Greenwood Lake, N.Y., Mary Saffert and her husband, Duke, of Old Tappan, and Charles Shafer of West Kingston, R.I.; grandmother of Michael Saffert, Daniel Saffert and his wife, Natalie, Meaghann Shafer, Abraham Ettinger and Benjamin Ettinger; sister o…
