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Lawmaker Judy Jacobs dies at 77
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RememBeRinG 9/11
Officials remember representative of Roslyn Heights, Old Westbury By N o A h m A N s k A r Nassau County Legislator Judy Jacobs, a longtime community activist and a fixture in the Legislature for two decades, died Tuesday night in Manhasset after falling in her Woodbury home. She was 77. A Democrat who represented Roslyn Heights, Old Westbury and parts of the Town of Oyster Bay, Jacobs served on the Legislature since its inception in 1996 and was its presiding officer for eight years. Known as a grandmother to the Legislature, Jacobs was a dedicated public servant who maintained warm friendships with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, her associates and fellow county officials said. “Judy embodied what the hallmark of the Legislature is supposed to be, which is a grassrots legislature that had the ability to advocate for all issues,” County Executive Edward Mangano said. “No issue was too small for Judy to
take up if it was important to her constituents.” Jacobs learned in May that she had myelodysplastic syndrome, a bone marrow disorder that damages the body’s ability to produce blood cells and platelets, said Linda Jacobs-Geller, one of her three children. Jacobs-Geller and her husband took Jacobs to Syosset Hospital Tuesday morning after she fell and hit her head around 7:30 a.m. at her Woodbury home, where the three lived together, Jacobs-Geller said. A CAT scan showed a small bleed in Jacobs’ brain that grew despite efforts to stop it, JacobsGeller said. She was transferred to North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, where she died at 9:37 p.m. “She was a special lady and the best were there, but it was too late and this bleed just took her,” Continued on Page 3
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Town residents gathered on Sunday for a morning service at Mary Jane Davies Green in Manhasset to honor the lives lost during the Sept. 11 terror attacks 15 years ago.
Town remembers lives of 9/11 victims at service By C h r i s A dA m s
“After all, when and how the victims of 9/11 died, while incredibly meaningful to us all, North Hempstead Clerk pales in comparison to how Wayne Wink urged residents they lived,” Wink said. “How during Sunday’s Town of North they lived is what makes the Hempstead 9/11 memorial to dash the most meaningful part remember the lives of the vic- of the time they had here with us.” tims not just their deaths.
Wink described this as “the dash,” or the punctuation between the date of someone’s birth and the date of their death. The 56 North Hempstead residents who were killed during the attacks were honored Continued on Page 73
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