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Obituari es (continued from page 10) MASTER WARREN E. LUKAS JR. died Friday at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital. He is survived by his parents , Mr. and Mrs. Warren E. Lukas of Bellport; his paternal grandparents , Mr and Mrs. Alfred Lukas and his maternal grandparents , Mr and Mrs. James Tate. A Resurrection Prayer Service was held at the Ruland Funeral Home. Father Kenneth Murph y of Mary Immacula te Church , Bellport , officiated. Interment was held at St Charles Cemetery, Pinelawn. MRS. MARY FRANCES HARDY , 72 , of North Patchogue died Saturday at her residence. She is survived by three sons , John and Patrick of Patchogue and Eugene C. of Virginia ; one daughter , Mrs. Barbara Blum , also of Virginia; also survived by one sister , Mrs. Kathleen Hanley of Woodside and 11 grand- children . Wake praver services were held Monday evening at the Ruland Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Tuesday morning at St. Francis De Sales R.C. Church , Patchogue , the Rev. Edward Muhs , celebrant. Interment followed at L.I. National Cemetery, Pinelawn. ARTHUR L. BRUNING , of Center Moriches , died suddenly at his home on February 12. Mr . Bruning was retired from the building industry and had been a resident of this area for over ten years . He is survived by an aunt , Johannah Lubeck of Mineola. Funeral services were held February 19 , at Sinnicksons Moriches Funeral Home , Center Moriches , with Pastor A. Willard Holsten officiating. Interment took place in Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead. FLORENCE E. MOECKEL , 59 , of Mastic , died February 17, at her home. Mrs. Moeckel was born ir Schenectady on April 3, 1915, and had been a resident of the area for the past year. She is survived by her husband , George ; two sons , George E. Jr. of Vermont and Richard R. of East Meadow; a daughter , Mrs . Florence E. Meyers of Whitestone ; a sister , Mrs. Emma Almasy of Mastic Beach ; and four grandchildren . Funeral services were held February 20 , at St. John the Baptist Ep iscopal Church , Center Moriches , with Father Albert Amend officiating. Interment took p lace in Pinelawn Memorial Park , Pinelawn. FRED PETERSEN , 68 , of Mastic , died at Westhampton Nursing Home on Feb. 16. He had been a resident of this area for the last 15 years. Mr. Petersen is survived by his wife , Ruby ; a son , George of Mastic Beach and daughters , Dorothy of N.J. and Lillian of Center Moriches. He is also survived by brothers Charles of Mastic Beach and Ernest of Indiana and a sister Lillian of Wading River. Religious services were held Thursday at 9 a.m. at D.J. Reilly ' s Mastics and Shirley Funeral Home , Mastic , with the Rev. Gordon Dickson officiating. Cremation followed at Washington Memorial Park , Coram. PATRICK F. O'FARRELL , 47 , died on Feb. 16. He had been a resident of this area for 16 years. Mr. O'Farrell is survived by his wife , Patricia and daughters , Patricia H. O'Farrell and Carol Ann Finke; and a son . Fred Finke , all of Shirley. He is also survived by his mother , Ethel O'Farrell of Elmont and his brothers and sisters , Harry T. O'Farrell of Lake Ronkonkoma , Catherine McGrath of Elmont , Ethel Machultz of Calif., Gloria Slattery of Richmond Hill and Maureen Probeta of Commack. Wake prayers were said at D.J. Reilly ' s Mastics and Shirley Funeral Home , Mastic , on Tuesday evening at 8 p.m Mass of Christian Burial was said on Wednesday at 9 a.m. at St. John ' s R C. Church , Center Moriches , with interment following at Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, East Moriches . EDWARD P. WEIGAND , 84 , of Hudson Avenue , Lake Ronkonkoma , died February 14 in Mather Memorial Hosp ital. He was a resident of the area more than 20 years. He leaves his wife , Bertha ; a son , Edward P . Jr. of Lake Ronkonkoma ; a daughter , Mrs. Mildred Heffernan of Carle Place. Religious services were held at F. Daniel Moloney ' s Lake Funeral Home , Lake Ronkonkoma. Interment took place in Evergreen Cemetery, Brooklyn. MRS. MARY MILLER , 76 , of Washington Avenue , Holtsville , died February 8 in St. Charles Hospital. Widow of the late Anthony, she is survived by two daughters , Mrs. Anna Lawson and Mrs. Elizabeth Cryer ; two brothers , Charles and Fred Shivak ; three sisters , Mrs. Peggy Magyar , Mrs. Catherine Knapp and Mrs. Lena Zelinko ; and four grandchildren and three great- grandchildren. Prayers were said at F. Daniel Moloney 's Lake Funeral Home , Lake Ronkonkoma. Mass of the Resurrection was celebrated in St. Joseph' s R.C. Church , Ronkonkoma. Interment took p lace at Long Island National Cemetery, Pinelawn. VANESSA BOLLES , 5 , of Ridge died Saturday at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital She is survived by her mother and father , Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bolles ; her paternal grand parents , Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bolles Sr. of Scottsdale , Ariz.; and her maternal grandfather , Hugh McDermott of Patchogue. Private cremation was held at Washington Memorial Park , Coram. Memorial services were held Wednesday at St. Paul' s Episcopal Church in Patchogue , the Rev. Harry B. Sherman officiating. Arrangements were made by Ruland Funeral Home. CORRECTION Last week The Advance ran an obituary notice for a former Patchogue resident who died in Miami , Fla., on January 30. His full name was Harry Steele Browne. PIPELINE OKAYED The Stony Brook Water District will begin the construction of a new pipeline and a new water meter pit following Brookhaven Town Board approval Tuesday after a public hearing of the proposed improvement program. The construction work , expected to cost $65, 000, will provide a 12-inch main and increased wate r pressure ' - in ^o adequate levels for residents in the coverage area. Onl y those residents within the Stony Broo k Water District will share the cost of this project. NAVIGATIONAL AIDS Supervisor Charles W. Barraud was authorized b y the Brookhaven Town Board to sign an agreement with the Blue Points Company for the town to install navigational aids on the company ' s property. Bids fro m local farmowners offer to preserve 1 864 acre s Bids from 14 farm owners in Brookhaven Town were among the better than 380 bids received by Suffolk County last week in the first step by the county to acquire development rights to safeguard one of the area ' s traditional heritages. County Executive John V N. Klein , who first proposed the farmland acquisition program to insure that farms in Suffolk would not be sold to real estate developers sometime in the future , was on hand as the first bids came in. County-wide , the bids covered 17, 767 acres of land for a total asking price of $117, 749 , 537 or $6 , 566 per acre , according to unofficial county tallies. Farmowners in Brookhaven Town offered 1, 864 acres for $15 , 858, 200 or a per acre cost of $8 ,500. Klein 's plan was originally intended to preserve farmland primarily in the eastern end of Long Island , but the plan ' s scope was later widened to include lands in Brookhaven. All bids have been sent on to the county ' s Real Property Tax Services Agency where , according to director Russell Haase , they are being correlated on county maps . "We want to know how they line up by town , " Haase explained , adding his office would also determine what lands were " contiguous , " what prices were bid , and what the " clear , overall view " of the farmland offered would be. That work will take a coup le of weeks , says Haase , and the information will then be forwarded to the Suffolk Legislature ' s Select Committee on Development Rights . That committee , including Klein and Brookhaven Legislator , Floyd Linton , will make recom- mendations to the full legislature as to which bids should be accepted. Under the county program , bids that are accepted allow the farmers to continue to own and work their land , and even bequeath the property to heirs ; the onl y restriction is that the land can not be developed at a future date. Linton , who was involved in originally pushing for the inclusion of Brookhaven town farmland in the proposal said he felt it was important that town land be included because it was the land , "in most immenient danger of being developed" . He called the town bids "reasonable and interesting ", say ing that the bids , "indicate that Brookhaven farmers want to be included Considering the potential for developmen t out here , the prices (asked ) are very reasonable " SENIOR CITIZENS ARTISTS in the Town of Brookhaven Recreation Department' s program are shown exhibiting their works of art at St. Michael ' s and All Angels Center in Gordon Heights. One lady (second from right) , Anna Eckert , 80 plus in years , hasn 't missed an an ciass in four years. Liiiian Weils ^seated ) of the Terryville Senior Citizens Club is demonstrating brush techni que. Also pictured ( from left) , Willia m Gahwiller , parks supervisor; Adelaide Silkworth , senior citizen program supervisor ; Sylvia Hershey, staff art teacher; Anna Eckert of the Coram Senior Citizen Club and Town Superintendent of Recreation Peter Poulos. The art students in the town program visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on February 6 to view the "Centennial of Impressionism ". Six openings in the Monday Art Class are available to interested seniors. For further information call 7;{2- . " )610 . MIDDLE ISLAND SENIOR CITIZENS Club held its firs t installation of officers at the Wagon Wheel Restaurant in Port Jefferson recentl y. Pictured above ( from left) are Peter Poulos , superintendent of recreation ; Josep h DeBenedetti , sergeant-at-arms;Martin Whelan , 1st vice president; Adelaide Kiessel , treasurer ; Genevieve White , recoi ding secretary ; John Landus , president; Adelaide Silkworth , senior citizen progra m supervisor; Kay Egan , recreation club specialist; Harvey Cook , 2nd vice president; Patrick Hoey and Paul DiNapoli , council delegates. Washington attends conclave of NEA on ' educational neglect' Reginald M. Washington , president of the Bellport Teachers Association and National Education Association director from New York , was among the nearly 2 , 000 leaders in education , government and human civil rights organizations who participated in the NEA' s national conference on educational neglect February 14- 15 in Washington , D C. Mr . Washington and other teachers from New York took part in discussion areas such as neglec t in bilingual , migrant , suburban and special education , " push-outs " and neglect in education of women He and the other educators p lan to imp lement strategies in the local school districts that will bring about a coalition of education and the community that will reduce or eliminate educational neglect Mr Washington can be contacted at the Hauppauge Office of the New York Sta te United Teachers.

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Obituaries(continued from page 10)

MASTER WARREN E. LUKASJR. died Friday at BrookhavenMemorial Hospital.

He is survived by his parents ,Mr. and Mrs. Warren E. Lukas ofBel lpor t ; his paternalg randparen t s , Mr and Mrs.Alfred Lukas and his maternalgrandparen ts , Mr and Mrs.James Tate.

A Resurrection Prayer Servicewas held at the Ruland FuneralHome. Father Kenneth Murph yof Mary Immacula te Church ,Bellport , officiated. Intermentwas held at St CharlesCemetery, Pinelawn.

MRS. M A R Y FRANCESHARDY , 72 , of North Patchoguedied Saturday at her residence.

She is survived by three sons ,John and Patrick of Patchogueand Eugene C. of Virginia ; onedaughter , Mrs. Barbara Blum ,also of Virginia; also survived byone sister , Mrs. Kathleen Hanleyof Woodside and 11 grand-children .

Wake praver services wereheld Monday evening at theRuland Funeral Home. Mass ofChristian Burial was celebratedTuesday morning at St. FrancisDe Sales R.C. Church ,Patchogue , the Rev. EdwardMuhs , celebrant . In termentfollowed at L.I. NationalCemetery, Pinelawn.

ARTHUR L. BRUNING , ofCenter Moriches , died suddenlyat his home on February 12. Mr .Bruning was retired from thebuilding industry and had been aresident of this area for over tenyears .

He is survived by an aunt ,Johannah Lubeck of Mineola.

Funeral services were heldFebruary 19, at SinnicksonsMoriches Funeral Home , CenterMoriches , with Pastor A. WillardHolsten off ic ia t ing . In termenttook place in GreenfieldCemetery, Hempstead.

FLORENCE E. MOECKEL ,59, of Mastic , died February 17,at her home. Mrs. Moeckel wasborn ir Schenectady on April 3,1915, and had been a resident ofthe area for the past year.

She is survived by her husband ,George ; two sons , George E. Jr.of Vermont and Richard R. ofEast Meadow; a daughter , Mrs .Florence E. Meyers ofWhitestone ; a sister , Mrs. EmmaAlmasy of Mastic Beach ; andfour grandchildren .

Funeral services were heldFebruary 20 , at St. John theBaptist Episcopal Church , CenterMoriches , with Father AlbertAmend off ic ia t in g . Intermenttook place in Pinelawn MemorialPark , Pinelawn.

FRED PETERSEN , 68 , ofMastic , died at WesthamptonNursing Home on Feb. 16. He hadbeen a resident of this area forthe last 15 years.

Mr. Petersen is survived by hiswife , Ruby ; a son , George ofMastic Beach and daughters ,Dorothy of N.J. and Lillian ofCenter Moriches. He is alsosurvived by brothers Charles ofMastic Beach and Ernest ofIndiana and a sister Lillian ofWading River.

Religious services were heldThursday at 9 a.m. at D.J.Reilly 's Mastics and ShirleyFuneral Home , Mastic , with theRev. Gordon Dickson officiating.Cremation followed atWashington Memorial Park ,Coram.

PATRICK F. O'FARRELL , 47,died on Feb. 16. He had been aresident of this area for 16 years.

Mr. O'Farrell is survived by hiswife , Patricia and daughters ,Patricia H. O'Farrell and CarolAnn Finke; and a son . Fred Finke,

all of Shirley. He is also survivedby his mother , Ethel O'Farrell ofElmont and his brothers andsisters , Harry T. O'Farrell ofLake Ronkonkoma , CatherineMcGrath of Elmont , EthelMachu l t z of Ca l i f . , GloriaSlattery of Richmond Hill andMaureen Probeta of Commack.

Wake prayers were said at D.J.Reil ly 's Mastics and ShirleyFuneral Home , Mas t ic , onTuesday evening at 8 p.m Massof Christian Burial was said onWednesday at 9 a.m. at St. John 'sR C. Church , Center Moriches ,with interment following at Mt.P leasan t Cemetery , EastMoriches .

EDWARD P. WEIGAND , 84 , ofHudson Avenue , LakeRonkonkoma , died February 14in Mather Memorial Hosp ital. Hewas a resident of the area morethan 20 years.

He leaves his wife , Bertha ; ason , Edward P . Jr. of LakeRonkonkoma ; a daughter , Mrs.Mildred Heffernan of CarlePlace. Religious services wereheld at F. Daniel Moloney 's LakeFuneral Home , LakeRonkonkoma. Interment tookplace in Evergreen Cemetery,Brooklyn.

MRS. MARY MILLER , 76, ofWashington Avenue , Holtsville ,died February 8 in St. CharlesHospital.

Widow of the late Anthony, sheis survived by two daughters ,Mrs. Anna Lawson and Mrs.Elizabeth Cryer ; two brothers ,Charles and Fred Shivak ; threesisters , Mrs. Peggy Magyar ,Mrs. Catherine Knapp and Mrs.Lena Zelinko ; and fourgrandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Prayers were said at F. DanielMoloney 's Lake Funeral Home ,Lake Ronkonkoma. Mass of theResurrection was celebrated inSt. Joseph' s R.C. Church ,Ronkonkoma. Interment tookplace at Long Island NationalCemetery, Pinelawn.

VANESSA BOLLES , 5 , ofRidge died Saturday atBrookhaven Memorial Hospital

She is survived by her motherand father , Mr. and Mrs. HerbertBolles ; her pa terna lgrand parents , Mr. and Mrs.Herbert Bolles Sr. of Scottsdale ,Ariz . ; and her maternalgrandfather, Hugh McDermott ofPatchogue.

Private cremation was held atWashington Memoria l Park ,Coram. Memorial services wereheld Wednesday at St. Paul' sEpiscopal Church in Patchogue ,the Rev. Harry B. Shermanofficiating. Arrangements weremade by Ruland Funeral Home.

CORRECTIONLast week The Advance ran an

obituary notice for a formerPatchogue resident who died inMiami , Fla., on January 30. Hisfull name was Harry SteeleBrowne.

PIPELINE OKAYEDThe Stony Brook Water District

will begin the construction of anew pipeline and a new watermeter pit following BrookhavenTown Board approval Tuesdayafter a public hearing of theproposed improvement program.

The construct ion work ,expected to cost $65,000, willprovide a 12-inch main andincreased water pressure '-in ^oadequate levels for residents inthe coverage area. Onl y thoseresidents within the Stony BrookWater District will share the costof this project.

NAVIGATIONAL AIDS

Supervisor Charles W. Barraudwas au thor i zed b y theBrookhaven Town Board to signan agreement with the BluePoints Company for the town toinstall navigational aids on thecompany 's property.

Bids fro m local farmownersoffer to preserve 1864 acres

Bids from 14 farm owners inBrookhaven Town were amongthe better than 380 bids receivedby Suffolk County last week in thefirst step by the county to acquiredevelopment rights to safeguardone of the area 's traditionalheritages.

County Executive John V N.Klein , who first proposed thefarmland acquisition program toinsure that farms in Suffolkwould not be sold to real estatedevelopers sometime in thefuture , was on hand as the firstbids came in.

County-wide , the bids covered17,767 acres of land for a totalasking price of $117,749 ,537 or$6,566 per acre , according tounoff ic ia l county tal l ies.Farmowners in BrookhavenTown offered 1,864 acres for$15,858,200 or a per acre cost of$8,500.

Klein 's plan was originallyintended to preserve farmlandprimarily in the eastern end ofLong Island , but the plan 's scopewas later widened to includelands in Brookhaven.

All bids have been sent on to thecounty 's Real Property TaxServices Agency where ,according to director RussellHaase , they are being correlatedon county maps . "We want toknow how they line up by town ,"Haase explained , adding hisoffice would also determine what

lands were "contiguous ," whatprices were bid , and what the"clear , overall view " of thefarmland offered would be.

That work will take a coup le ofweeks , says Haase , and thein fo rma t ion wi l l then beforwarded to the SuffolkLegislature 's Select Committeeon Development Rights . Thatcommittee , including Klein andBrookhaven Legislator , FloydLinton , wil l make recom-mendat ions to the fulllegislature as to which bidsshould be accepted.

Under the county program ,bids that are accepted allow thefarmers to continue to own andwork their land , and even

bequeath the property to heirs ;the onl y restriction is that theland can not be developed at afuture date.

Linton , who was involved ino r ig ina l l y pushing for theinclusion of Brookhaven townfarmland in the proposal said hefelt it was important that townland be included because it wasthe land , "in most immenientdanger of being developed" . Hecalled the town bids "reasonableand interesting ", say ing that thebids , "indicate that Brookhavenfarmers want to be includedConsidering the potential fordevelopmen t out here , the prices(asked ) are very reasonable "

SENIOR CITIZENS ARTISTS in the Town of Brookhaven Recreation Department' s program are shownexhibiting their works of art at St. Michael 's and All Angels Center in Gordon Heights. One lady (secondfrom right ) , Anna Eckert , 80 plus in years , hasn 't missed an an ciass in four years. Liiiian Weils ^seated )of the Terryville Senior Citizens Club is demonstrating brush techni que. Also pictured ( from left ) , Willia mGahwiller , parks supervisor; Adelaide Silkworth , senior citizen program supervisor ; Sylvia Hershey,staff art teacher ; Anna Eckert of the Coram Senior Citizen Club and Town Superintendent of RecreationPeter Poulos. The art students in the town program visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New Yorkon February 6 to view the "Centennial of Impressionism ". Six openings in the Monday Art Class areavailable to interested seniors. For further information call 7;{2-.")610 .

MIDDLE ISLAND SENIOR CITIZENS Club held its firs t installation of officers at the Wagon WheelRestaurant in Port Jefferson recentl y. Pictured above ( from left ) are Peter Poulos , superintendent ofrecreation ; Josep h DeBenedetti , sergeant-at-arms ;Martin Whelan , 1st vice president; Adelaide Kiessel ,treasurer ; Genevieve White , recoi ding secretary ; John Landus , pres ident ; Adelaide Silkworth , seniorcitizen progra m supervisor; Kay Egan , recreation club specialist; Harvey Cook , 2nd vice president ;Patrick Hoey and Paul DiNapoli , council delegates.

Washington attends conclaveof NEA on 'educational neglect'

Regina ld M. Washington ,pres ident of the Bel lpor tTeachers Associa t ion andNational Education Associationdirector from New York , wasamong the nearly 2 ,000 leaders ineducat ion , gove rnmen t andhuman civil rights organizationswho participated in the NEA ' sna t iona l conference oneducational neglect February 14-15 in Washington , D C.

Mr . Wash ing ton and otherteachers from New York tookpart in discussion areas such as

neglec t in bilingual , migrant ,suburban and special education ,"push-outs " and neglect ineducation of women

He and the other educatorsp lan to imp lement strategies inthe local school districts that willb r ing about a coa l i t ion ofeducation and the communitythat will reduce or eliminateeducational neglect

Mr Washington can becontac ted at the HauppaugeOffice of the New York Sta teUnited Teachers.