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Everett F. Seidenberg, boater and former Commodore of South Bay Cruising Club, dies at 90



 

 

Everett Seidenberg, a longtime resident of Baby­lon Village and former Commodore of the South Bay Cruising Club, died October 24, 2019, at his home in Stuart, Florida, where he moved in 1991.

His daughter described him as a man who had a wide array of interests from operating a Ham Radio to football, to boating and fishing.

“He was a loving father,” said his daughter Kris­tina Everitt of Babylon. “We have wonderful mem­ories of us boating and sailing on the Great South Bay.”

Mr. Seidenberg was born in Brooklyn in 1929, and raised in Rockville Centre and Bay Shore, where he spent summers sailing on the Great South Bay and where his love of the water began. He graduated from Cornell University in 1952 and served in the United States Air Force before returning to Long Island to raise his family with his late wife, Teddy Smith, a Bab­ylon High School graduate, Class of 1949.

Mr. Seidenberg worked in the brewing industry and later in real estate. He retired to Stuart, Florida, a community reminiscent of the waters and beach­es of the South Shore of Long Island where he and his family spent so much time.

In 1997, he married Rita Pagels Price, origi­nally from Sayville, and over the years they en­joyed their shared inter­est in traveling.

Mr. Seidenberg served on the boards of the Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society, the Long Island Maritime Museum, and The Hewlett School. He was a member of both the Babylon Yacht Club and the South Bay Cruising Club for over 60 years, as well as serving as Commodore of the South Bay Cruising Club.

“He found the greatest happiness spending time with family and friends and boating on the Great South Bay,” said his daughter. “He is remembered as a kind and patient man with a tremendous wealth of knowledge, and a quiet sense of humor.”

Mr. Seidenberg is survived by his second wife Rita Seidenberg and his children: Fritz Seidenberg of Montauk, Hans Seidenberg and his wife Christine of Babylon, Merritt Seidenberg of San Francisco, Karl Seidenberg of Babylon, and Kristina Everitt and her husband Ted of Babylon. His grandchildren, Ashley Wynne, Sarah Everitt, Bryan Everitt and Christian Seidenberg also survive him, as does by his brother Otto Seidenberg and his wife Janet of Minnesota and sister Anne Seidenberg of Wisconsin.

Arrangements are private, donations in Mr. Se­idenberg’s name may be made to the Long Island Maritime Museum, 88 West Avenue, West Sayville, NY 11796.

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