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In Memory of

Edward J McCrain

1938 - 2021

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Visitation atFuneral Home

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Friday, April 2, 2021

Weigand Bros., Inc. Funeral Home

49 Hillside Ave.

Williston Park, New York, United States

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April

Visitation atFuneral Home

2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Weigand Bros., Inc. Funeral Home

49 Hillside Ave.

Williston Park, New York, United States

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Saturday

April

Visitation

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Saturday, April 3, 2021

Weigand Bros., Inc. Funeral Home

49 Hillside Ave.

Williston Park, New York, United States

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April

Final Resting Place

Monday, April 5, 2021

Gate Of Heaven Cemetery

Stevens Ave.,

Hawthorne, New York, United States

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Monday

April

Funeral Service

11:15 am

Monday, April 5, 2021

St. Aidans RC Church

505 Willis Ave

Williston Park, New York, United States

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Patricia Navarra posted a condolence

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Edmund…from Long Day’s Journey into Night By Eugene O’Neill (Yale Press: pp.153-54) [Toward the end of Act 4. Edmund is speaking to his father, James Tyrone] EDMUND: You’ve just told me some high spots in your memories. Want to hear mine? They’re all connected with the sea. Here’s one. When I was on the Squarehead square rigger, bound for Buenos Aires. Full moon in the trades. The old hooker driving fourteen knots. I lay on the bowsprit, facing astern, with the water foaming into spume under me, the masts with every sail white in the moonlight, towering high above me. I became drunk with the beauty and the singing rhythm of it, and for a moment I lost myself–actually lost my life. I was set fee! I dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm, became moonlight and the ship and the high dim-starred sky! I belonged without, past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within something greater than my own life, or the life of Man, to Life itself! To God if you want to put it that way. Then another time, on the American line, when I was lookout in the crow’s nest on the dawn watch. A calm sea, that time. Only a lazy ground swell and a slow drowsy roll of the ship. The passengers asleep and none of the crew in sight. No sound of man. Black smoke pouring from the funnels behind and beneath me. Dreaming, not keeping lookout, feeling alone, and above and apart, watching the dawn creep like a painted dream over the sky and sea which slept together. Then the moment of ecstatic freedom came. The peace, the end of the quest, the last harbor, the joy of belonging to a fulfillment beyond men’s lousy, pitiful, greedy fears and hopes and dreams! And several other times in my life, when I was swimming far out, or lying alone on the beach, I have had the same experience. Became the sun, the hot sand, green seaweed anchored to a rock, swaying in the tide. Like a saint’s vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand.

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Susan M Solosky lit a candle

Thursday, April 8, 2021

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As I sit here thinking of what to write about my dad, I have to think that he would want me to know that he is at peace in God's arms and in the company of my mother and all of the precious family and friends that have passed before him. He told me in his final weeks that he lived a good life full of great memories and experiences such as his four years in the Navy where he was able to see 18 countries, a stellar 30 year career on the NYPD, marrying two amazing women and building a beautiful family of which he was most proud of. My father was a man of honor with the purest most generous heart. He was generous with his time and his love. He took time to notice the little things that mattered the most to the ones he loved. His love for me never waivered. He never missed an opportunity to tell me he was proud of me and that he loved me. His gentle guidance and care carried over to my two beautiful boys. They are so much like him in so many ways. To say my father was my hero is an understatement. He was truly the wind beneath my wings. As I go forward in life trying to find ways to live without him here, I will honor him by living as he did, using all of the lessons he taught me and passing them on to my boys. I can only hope to be half of the parent he was to me. Dad, I will miss you beyond words and I love you beyond measure. How lucky I was that you were mine...I love you from the top of the sky to the bottom of the ocean...and then some. So long for now Dad, it was heaven having you here with us.

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Thursday, April 8, 2021

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Kenneth Solosky posted a condolence

Thursday, April 8, 2021

It is not often that a man gets the opportunity to be blessed with two wonderful fathers. I was so blessed. My natural dad, Edward was the absolute best and my father-in-law, Eddie McCrain was my second dad. We met 23 years ago, when I started dating his beautiful daughter Susan. I told him I intended to ask for his daughters hand in marriage and he blessed it enthusiastically. Since that time, he grew to be a second father to me. I have so many wonderful memories of him and will cherish them the rest of my life. He was a wonderful role-model to my two sons and they also had a close relationship with him. "Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened" (Dr. Seuss) Poppy never would say "goodbye" it was only "so long". So "so long" Poppy until we meet again.

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Mary Lou E GRADY posted a condolence

Friday, April 2, 2021

It is with a broken heart that I learned the sad news that Eddie McCrain has gone to Heaven. He was a man that brightened the world around him. Always happy, always smiling, always fun to be with. The minute you met him you loved him. He was blessed having Mary, his loving wife, his family, his Navy friends, his Police Officer buddies, everyone at St. Aidan Church, all a big part of his life. He loved life, his Catholic Faith and Irish Music, a true Gentleman. He fought the good fight. Forever when I hear Sean South of Garryowen I will salute this faith filled, handsome, family loving man. He always made us feel so welcomed. The angels greeting him were in for a treat. Eddie, Stand tall you are everything God wants his Masterpiece to be! Save us a spot dear friend. Keep smiling. May the road rise to meet you, Until me meet again

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