Maureen Faherty

I was a tenant in Maureen's lovely three-family house in New Rochelle for nine years, until the fall of 2000. Maureen and Marty always welcomed me, then a single woman, into their apartment to chat and have tea, or maybe something a little stronger! Through the years of my caring for my father there until his death, and my subsequent meeting of and marriage to my husband, Mike, the Fahertys were like a second family to me.

Maureen and I stayed in contact over the years. Amid her...