Harry W. Babcock

Harry W. Babcock, a 47-year resident of Monroe, passed away peacefully Monday, March 4, 2013, at St. Anthony Community Hospital in Warwick, surrounded by his loving family after a long and courageous battle with cancer. He was 82 years old.

The son of Harry W. and Anna J. Anderson Babcock, Harry was born April 1, 1930, in Richmond Hill, Queens.

He was a graduate of Richmond Hill High School and a retired New York City Firefighter, a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and a former Monroe-Woodbury school bus driver.

He was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Monroe, a member of the American Legion Post 488, also in Monroe, and an avid New York Yankee fan.

Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Esther Babcock of Monroe; one son, Barry Babcock of Cornwall-on-Hudson; one daughter, Barbara Sullivan and her husband Steven of Warwick; three beloved grandchildren: Mark Babcock and Christopher and Samantha Sullivan; two sisters: Doris Dale of St. James and Ruth Obser of Milford, Pa.; and many nieces and nephews.

There will be no visitation. A memorial service was scheduled to be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 7, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 21 Still Road, Monroe.

Interment of ashes will be at a later date in Orange County Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Goshen with full military honors.

Memorial donations may be made to St. Paul Lutheran Church or Hospice of Orange and Sullivan Counties, Inc. 800 Stony Brook Court, Newburgh, NY 12550

Funeral arrangementshave been made by Smith, Seaman & Quackenbush, Inc. Funeral Home in Momroe. For additional information, call 845-782-8185 or visit online at www.ssqfuneralhome.com.