Obituary: Joanne Garrity, former School Board member and Friends of Library founder

Joanne M. Garrity, a spirited volunteer dedicated to education in Somers, NY, died on February 28 at the age of 79. Although a resident of Florida at the time of her death, interment is at Amawalk Hill Cemetery. Services were scheduled for March 7 at New St. Patrick’s Church in Yorktown Heights.

The NCNLocal.com obituary provides this information her volunteerism:

Mrs. Garrity was elected to the Somers Central School District Board of Education in the 1970s and continued as a member of that board for 11 years, four of them as president. She followed that with five years as a member of the Putnam/Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services. Additionally she was a president of the Westchester/Putnam School Boards Association. ... She was also a member and past president of the League of Women Voters in both New York and Florida, a member of the Somers Historical Society and founding president of the Friends of the Somers Library

Read the complete NCNLocal.com obituary of March 3, 2011, Joanne M. Garrity, formerly of Somers.

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