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Patrick J. Ferguson
Patrick J. Ferguson of North Haven and Hobe Sound, Florida, died on May 21 from complications of a stroke. He was 92.
He was born in December 1930 in New York City.
With his Irish-born parents and siblings, he immigrated to Ireland in 1934. He grew up in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. When he completed his primary education, he worked for a newspaper in Dublin, Ireland, before joining the U.S. Air Force in London in 1952. He served for four years and was honorably discharged in the United States.
He settled in the Bronx, and began his career in Manhattan. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Fordham University.
He was married to Margaret Doughty for almost 60 years before she died in early 2020. They raised their family in Old Tappan, New Jersey, before retiring in 1994 to North Haven and Hobe Sound, Florida.
Ferguson enjoyed Irish dancing, Irish history, painting watercolors, gardening, collecting rocks and minerals, and above all, time with family and friends. He is a former president of his neighborhood associations in North Haven and Hobe Sound.
He proudly marched as a veteran in far too many Sag Harbor Memorial Day parades to count.
When one conversed with Pat, he had a gift for making them feel that they were the only person in the world that mattered to him.
Until his stroke, Ferguson lived a full, vibrant, and independent life.
He is survived by his daughter Peggy and her husband Steve Gallagher of Sag Harbor; his son, Patrick Ferguson, of Mahopac, New York; four grandchildren (Julie and Connor Gallagher, Claire and Kate Ferguson); his brother Gerry Ferguson of Galway, Ireland; and his sister Kathleen Quinn, also of Galway, Ireland.
Visitation will be on Friday, June 2, from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at Yardley & Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Saturday, June 3, at 11 a.m. at St. Andrews R.C. Church in Sag Harbor.
Staff Writer on May 29, 2023