Anna K. Damm Of Hampton Bays Dies June 27 - 27 East

Anna K. Damm Of Hampton Bays Dies June 27

author on Jul 7, 2016

Anna K. Damm of Hampton Bays died on June 27. She was 95.

Born in Brooklyn on December 26, 1920, she married her childhood sweetheart, Charlie Damm, on October 1, 1939, and they were married for 55 years before he died in 1994.

Ms. Damm had been an avid card player and bowler. She was a member of the Hand Aldrich Legion Post 924 Ladies Auxiliary, and a frequent guest of the Hampton Bays Senior Center, where she enjoyed the company of her friends and playing bingo.

She is survived by three children, Anne Lachcik and husband Mike of Riverhead, Joseph Damm and wife Michele of Connecticut, and Joanne Schneider and husband Allen of Hampton Bays; six grandchildren, Debbie Lovett and husband Ryan, Ed Lachcik and wife Kathleen, Sean Damm, Holly Domino and husband Tony, Julia Schneider and Charlie Schneider; 12 great-grandchildren, Ryan, Robert and Riess Lovett, Jillian, Katherine and Drew Lachcik, Skylah Miller, Anna Domino, Nicholas Foster and wife Jordan, and Scott and Makayla Damm. She was predeceased by a great-grandson, Robert Lovett.

A funeral was held at J. Ronald Scott Funeral Home in Hampton Bays; interment was at Good Ground Cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to a GoFundMe account set up for her great-granddaughter, Jillian Lachcik, who has a rare form of lymphoma.

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