Final goodbyes begin today for a former area state Senator who died over the weekend. Bill Larkin passed away at his home on Saturday at the age of 91. He had retired from the Senate just last year. Rockland State Senator David Carlucci says it was an honor to work with him and call him “friend”…
Visitation is today from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Newburgh Armory Unity Center in the William and Pat Larkin Education Center. Larkin was a World War II and Korean War veteran, became supervisor of the Town of New Windsor in Orange County, an assemblyman in 1978, and then was elected in 1990 to the state Senate covering portions of Orange, Ulster and Rockland counties. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, September 5th at St. Thomas of Canterbury in Cornwall-On-Hudson. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations can be made to Newburgh Armory Unity Center, Hospice of Orange and Sullivan Counties and Nora Cronin Presentation Academy.