Oct. 26, 2016 Hopewell Junction, N.Y. – A Mass of Christian Burial for Deacon George R. Stewart, 75, who served the parishes of St. Agnes in Lake Placid, St. Margaret’s in Wilmington, St. Bernard’s in Keene, was held Oct. 15 at St. Columba Church. He died Oct. 11; burial was in St. Denis Cemetery. A resident of the Hudson Valley for many years and most recently of Lake Placid, Deacon Stewart is survived by his wife of 51 years Agnes; their seven children Father George, Kevin, Dennis, Maureen, Heather, Tara, and Ryan; his son-in-law Bob Shilkunas; daughters-in-law Nicole and Sarah; and grandchildren Kevin, Bobby, Elizabeth, Dennis and Hunter; siblings, Mary, Donald, Daniel, Gregory, Bernadette and Ronald. He was predeceased by two of his siblings, Jennie and Robert Deacon Stewart was born in Jamaica, Queens, July 24, 1941, the son of the late Mary and George R. Stewart and raised in the Bronx. He was ordained a permanent deacon at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in the Archdiocese of New York by Cardinal Terence Cooke on May 28, 1983. He served as a deacon in the Parish of St. Columba in Hopewell Junction. He also served the Parishes of St. Agnes in Lake Placid, St. Margaret’s in Wilmington, St. Bernard’s in Keene, Regina Coeli in Hyde Park and St. Anthony of Padua in West Harrison. Memorial donations may be made to Memorial Sloan Kettering Palliative Care Unit. |