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Joseph Suozzi dies
Judge, former
mayor of Glen
Cove was 95
BY LAURA FIGUEROA
NEWSDAY, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016
newsday.com
Joseph, Marea and Tom Suozzi
at a North Shore Historical
Museum ceremony in 2014.
Joseph Suozzi, the new mayor of Glen Cove, celebrates with his wife, Marguerite, and mother in 1955.
veteran who served as a B-24
navigator stationed in Italy,
where he completed more than
30 missions. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the
Air Medal with three Oak Leaf
Clusters, his family said.
He returned from the war
and attended Harvard Law
School under the GI Bill. He became an attorney in 1949. He
met his future wife, Marguerite
Holmes, a registered nurse, that
year at a Glen Cove Community Hospital dance. Also in
1949, he was elected to the
bench of the City Court of Glen
Cove and re-elected in 1953.
Suozzi resigned in 1955 to run
for mayor of Glen Cove — ultimately winning and serving as
mayor from 1956 until 1960. As
mayor, he spearheaded the effort to build the city’s library
and also negotiated for the city
to purchase more than 100
acres of beachfront property at
a discounted price, which
would ultimately become the
city’s golf course and public
beach known as Pryibil Beach.
Nassau Legis. Delia DeRiggiWhitton (D-Glen Cove) said
Suozzi’s contributions to the
city were innumerable, describing him as person who “always
told you what he thought, he
didn’t hold anything back.”
In 1961, Suozzi was elected to
a 14-year term as state Supreme
Court justice and re-elected in
1974. He was appointed an ap-
pellate court judge in 1976 by
then-Gov. Hugh Carey.
Suozzi stepped down in 1980
and became a senior partner in
the law firm of firm of Meyer,
Suozzi, English & Klein.
Along with Thomas Suozzi
and Lloyd, Joseph Suozzi is survived by his wife of 63 years,
and sons William of Glen Rock,
New Jersey, and Christopher of
Manhattan. He is predeceased
by his eldest son, Joseph.
Viewings are scheduled for
tomorrow and Wednesday at
the McLaughlin Kramer Megiel
Funeral Home in Glen Cove. A
funeral Mass is planned for
Thursday at St. Patrick’s
Roman Catholic Church in
Glen Cove.
COURTESY OF SUOZZI FAMILY
Joseph Suozzi, the former
mayor of Glen Cove who
served two terms as a state
Supreme Court justice and
later was appointed an appellate justice, died last night, his
family said. He was 95.
Suozzi, a heralded figure in
Glen Cove politics and the father
of Thomas Suozzi, the former
Nassau County executive currently running for New York’s
3rd Congressional District, died
of natural causes, his family said.
“He saw America gave his
family a great life and he
wanted to return that back,”
said his daughter, the Rev. Rosemary Suozzi Lloyd, a Unitarian
minister who lives in Lincoln,
Massachusetts.
Joseph Suozzi was born Aug.
22, 1921, in the southern Italian
village of Ruvo del Monte and
immigrated to New York in
1925 with his mother, Rosa
Ciampa, where they joined his
father, Michele, who had arrived in 1913.
The family first lived in
Harlem before moving to Glen
Cove. Suozzi attended St.
Patrick’s Grade School in Glen
Cove, St. Dominic High School
in Oyster Bay, and Fordham
University before joining the
Army. In his high school yearbook, asked what his goal was,
Suozzi responded that he
wanted to be a “real American.”
Suozzi was a World War II
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Joseph Suozzi with President
John F. Kennedy. Suozzi was
first elected to the state
Supreme Court in 1961.
Nigerians reunite with 21 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram
The Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria — Jubilation
and dancing erupted yesterday
when a group of parents were reunited with 21 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram 2 1/2
years ago and freed Thursday in
the first negotiated release organized by the government and the
Islamic extremist group.
The girls were hugged and embraced by their parents when
they were presented by the government, according to video obtained by The Associated Press.
“I never expected I will see my
daughter again and I pray that
those girls still left behind, that
God will bring them out safely
the way our own daughter came
out alive,” said a mother of one
of the released girls, Raha Emmanuel, in the Hausa language.
The girls had been flown to
Abuja, the capital, but it had taken
days for the parents to arrive after
driving hours over potholed
roads slowed by military checkpoints and the danger of attack by
the insurgents, said community
leader Tsambido Hosea Abana.
The parents came from the remote northeastern town of Chibok, where nearly 300 girls were
kidnapped in April 2014 in a
mass abduction that shocked the
world. Dozens of schoolgirls escaped in the first few hours but
after last week’s release, 197 remain captive. The government
says negotiations are continuing
to win their freedom.
Muta Abana, the father of one
of the released girls who has
been living in Nasarawa state,
neighboring Abuja, expressed
anxiety as many of the girls reportedly have been forced to
marry Boko Haram fighters.
“Some of them came back with
babies, but think about it, are we
going to kill the children?” Abana
said to The Associated Press,
speaking in Hausa. “We won’t be
able to kill the children because it
would be as if we don’t want the
girls to come back. God knows
why it happened. It’s God’s will.”
The girls are getting medical
attention and trauma counseling
in a hospital, said Tsambido
Abana, the Chibok community
leader in Abuja. Some are “emaciated” from hunger, he said.