She was well liked by everyone

Evelyn Hanlon, a lifelong Five Towns resident, died on July 27 at the Meadowbrook Care Center in Freeport. She was 94.

Born in Lawrence in 1917, Hanlon attended Lawrence High School. She moved to Cedarhurst and lived there for 75 years.

Good friend Roy Meserole said she was very active in the community. “She was a very outgoing person, everybody liked her and she was very friendly,” Meserole said. “She worked socially and politically in the area.”

Her husband, Emmett died in 1972 He was the longtime Commissioner of Public Works for the Village of Cedarhurst. Hanlon also helped out around the village and for 20 years, Hanlon taught painting at the Town of Hempstead senior center.

Hanlon is survived by sons, Robert and Emmett Hanlon, daughters, Jane Teta, Patricia DeLorenzo and Susan Ledbetter, sister, Millicent Fryere, and nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. She was also predeceased by her children Michael Hanlon and Margaret Hirsch and her brothers Samuel and Russell Wood.

A funeral mass was celebrated at St. Joachim’s Church in Cedarhurst on July 30. She was interred at Greenfield Cemetery in Hempstead.