Family File for David Saul MITTMAN - Person Sheet
Family File for David Saul MITTMAN - Person Sheet
NameRichard Neal GEWANT 
Birth29 May 1958, Brooklyn, NY
Memo04 Sep 1977, 27 - Newsday (Nassau Edition) at Newspapers.com
Death2 Sep 1977, Huntington, NY Age: 19
Burial4 Sep 1997, 1180 Wellwood Ave, West Babylon, NY
MemoNew Montefiore Cemetery
Burial5950 Forest Lawn Dr, Los Angeles, CA
MemoMount Sinai Memorial Park
FlagsMITTMAN-1
FatherIra S GEWANT (1931-2024)
MotherEleanor FAIN (1934-)
Obituaries
Obituary for Richard Gewant
Press and Sun-Bulletin
Binghamton, New York
04 Sep 1977, Sun • Page 16
Richard Gewant, SUNY team mgr, dies of injuries
HUNTINGTON. L.I. — Richard Gewant, assistant manager for SUNY-Binghamton's basketball team last year, died Friday night at Huntington Hospital. Gewant, 19, who would have been a sophomore this year, never regained consciousness after being hit by a car while riding a bicycle about three months ago.
Gewant, a straight-A student from Huntington, is survived by his father, Ira Gewant, and mother, Eleanor Sencer, both of Huntington, his sister Wendy and brother Rick. Services are 11 a.m. today at the I.J. Morris Funeral Home in the Huntington suburb of Dix Hills.
From 04 Sep 1977, 27 - Newsday (Nassau Edition) at Newspapers.com:
Richard N. Gewant, 19,
In Coma Since June
Huntington — Richard Neal Gewant, 19, of Greenlawn, who had been in a coma since a traffic accident on June 20, died in Huntington Hospital yesterday.
Gewant was born in Brooklyn and moved to Huntington 15 years ago. He was a first-year scholarship student at Harpur College, part of the State University at Binghamton. “He was a kind, gentle and beautiful human being, said his mother, Eleanor Sencer of 238 Broadway, Greenlawn. His father, Ira, said that Gewant had been riding his bike along Stony Hollow Road in Centerport when he was struck by a car.
Gewant was manager of the Harpur basketball team and had been Huntington chess champion and editor of the school newspaper when he was attending John Glenn High School in Elwood. Besides his father and mother, he is survived by his stepfather, Roger Sencer; a brother, Frederick, and a sister, Wendy, both living at home in Greenlawn; his paternal grandmother, Celia Gewant of Brooklyn, and his maternal grandparents, Sylvia and Murray Fain of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Services at 11 AM today at R.J. Morris Funeral Home, Dix Hills. Burial in New Montefiore Cemetery, Pinelawn.
Press and Sun-Bulletin
Binghamton, New York
04 Sep 1977, Sun • Page 16
Richard Gewant, SUNY team mgr, dies of injuries
HUNTINGTON. L.I. — Richard Gewant, assistant manager for SUNY-Binghamton's basketball team last year, died Friday night at Huntington Hospital. Gewant, 19, who would have been a sophomore this year, never regained consciousness after being hit by a car while riding a bicycle about three months ago.
Gewant, a straight-A student from Huntington, is survived by his father, Ira Gewant, and mother, Eleanor Sencer, both of Huntington, his sister Wendy and brother Rick. Services are 11 a.m. today at the I.J. Morris Funeral Home in the Huntington suburb of Dix Hills.
From 04 Sep 1977, 27 - Newsday (Nassau Edition) at Newspapers.com:
Richard N. Gewant, 19,
In Coma Since June
Huntington — Richard Neal Gewant, 19, of Greenlawn, who had been in a coma since a traffic accident on June 20, died in Huntington Hospital yesterday.
Gewant was born in Brooklyn and moved to Huntington 15 years ago. He was a first-year scholarship student at Harpur College, part of the State University at Binghamton. “He was a kind, gentle and beautiful human being, said his mother, Eleanor Sencer of 238 Broadway, Greenlawn. His father, Ira, said that Gewant had been riding his bike along Stony Hollow Road in Centerport when he was struck by a car.
Gewant was manager of the Harpur basketball team and had been Huntington chess champion and editor of the school newspaper when he was attending John Glenn High School in Elwood. Besides his father and mother, he is survived by his stepfather, Roger Sencer; a brother, Frederick, and a sister, Wendy, both living at home in Greenlawn; his paternal grandmother, Celia Gewant of Brooklyn, and his maternal grandparents, Sylvia and Murray Fain of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Services at 11 AM today at R.J. Morris Funeral Home, Dix Hills. Burial in New Montefiore Cemetery, Pinelawn.