Obituaries

OSSINING, N.Y. – Shirley M. Tierney of Ossining died Nov. 24. She was 79.

Tierney was born Sept. 14, 1933, in Ossining to Charles and Frances Partlow Stevens. She worked for Briarcliff Bus Co. and the Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District for 40 years. She was one of the best women bowlers in Westchester County, her family said. She also loved golf and her ...

OSSINING, N.Y. – Annette "Babe" Ruth Gelfand, a founder of the Ossining Open Door Clinic and former Briarcliff Manor resident, died Oct. 25 at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City from complications following cardiac surgery. She was 84.

Born July 11, 1928, in Atlantic City, N.J., she was the daughter of Bella and Ben Goldberg. She ...

BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. – Rita Savard Bolduc, a longtime resident of Briarcliff Manor, died Aug. 9 at Springvale Inn at Bethel in Croton-on-Hudson. She was 80.

Bolduc was born April 27, 1932, in St. Raymond, Quebec, Canada to Delphis and Donalda Lemieux Savard. She received a nursing diploma from l'Hopital de l'Enfant-Jesus in Quebec in 1953. 

Following ...

BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. – Howard Rasher Esq. of Briarcliff Manor, and formerly of Thornwood and Mount Vernon, died Aug. 7. She was 88.

Rasher was born April 2, 1924, and raised in Mount Vernon, the son of Florence and Albert A. Rasher. He lived in Mount Vernon until the early 1970s. His careers included co-leadership of McMahon Iron and Metal Co., followed by years of ...

BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. – Robert Hughes, a famed art critic and longtime Briarcliff Manor resident, died Aug. 6 at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx after a long llness. He was 74. 

A native of Australia, he spent 30 years as chief art critic at Time magazine. Hughes was known for his acute and occasionally biting prose. 

He was born July 28, 1938, in Sydney ...

BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. – Eugene Cialini Sr. of Briarcliff Manor died July 3, surrounded by his family. He was 75. 

Born May 20, 1937, in Bronx, N.Y., he was the son of Domenic and Mary Rastelli Cialini. He worked as an electrical inspector before retiring. Cialini was a member of the Faith Bible Church in Mohegan Lake. 

Cialini is survived by ...

BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. – Margaret "Peggy" E. Strome, formerly of Briarcliff Manor, died June 18 at Bentley Village Care Center in Naples, Fla. She was 84.

Strome was born April 11, 1928, in York, Pa., to Arthur and Ethyl Strayer. She was raised in Kingston, Pa., where she attended Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School and met her husband of 57 years, Charles Bowman ...