Anna Eileen O’Halloran Burke, a resident of Noyac since 1938, died on February 14, surrounded by her family. She was 98.
Born in Gardiner, Maine, and soon after a resident of Prince Edward Island in Canada, she was the oldest of 10 children. She was raised on the family’s potato farm and moved to Manhattan as a young woman where she eventually met and married Edward J. Burke, who predeceased her.
The couple settled in Nassau County and raised a family there. She brought her husband to the Pine Neck area of Noyac in the late 1930s to visit her cousin who owned McErlean’s Noyac Deli. Soon after, they bought a bungalow where they spent summers with their five children. In 1978, they moved there permanently, enjoying retirement with time on the beach and helping with operations at the family restaurant, the Salty Dog/Waterside Restaurant.
Ms. Burke is survived by five children, Judge Edward D. Burke Sr. of Noyac, Robert Burke of Rocky Point, Kathleen Burton of Noyac, Sharon Corridan of Mattituck and Terri Burke-Doyle of Noyac; 13 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by a sister, Frances Dykens of Florida, who was at her side when she died.
The family received friends at the Yardley & Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor on February 17. A funeral Mass will be held on Thursday, February 18, at 10 a.m. at St. Andrew’s Church in Sag Harbor. Interment will follow at the church cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to the Sag Harbor Ambulance Corps, Box 209, Sag Harbor, NY 11963.
on Feb 15, 2016