Elvie Hoaglund of Copiague, active community member
by Tiffany Elliott
      Longtime Copiague resident and loving mother and grandmother Elvie K. Hoaglund died Oct. 16, 2008 at New Island Hospital in Bethpage. She was 89. She was born September 25, 1919 in West Paris, Maine to Matti and Emilia (Karppinen) Heikkinen.
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Bobby Owens, Amityville resident
by Tiffany Elliott
      Longtime Amityville area resident Bobby R. Owens, Jr. , died on Sept. 30, 2008 at New Island Hospital in Bethpage. He was 49. He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Sept. 8, 1959 to Bobby R., Sr. and Flora (nee Wilkins), he moved to Brooklyn when he was five.
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