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Francis Schweitzer, educator & Babylon Village volunteer Longtime Babylon Village resident and volunteer Francis "Fran" T. Schweitzer died Feb. 4, 2008. He was 73-years-old and was active in the Babylon Booster Club and in the Babylon Little League. "He was a great guy and and an active athletic booster for the high school," said Babylon Village Mayor Ralph Scordino. "He was a nice man and Babylon Village will miss him for everything he did." Born in Rahway, New Jersey and raised in Hartwick, New York, he moved to Long Island in 1960. In 1961 he bought a home in Babylon Village with his wife, Deanna, and they raised three children here. He was a decorated U.S. Navy veteran. He spent his career as an elementary teacher for the Lindenhurst School District, until his retirement in 1990. From 1961 to the early 1970s, he was the director of the Babylon Village Pool. For many years, Mr. Schweitzer was a volunteer coach and umpire for the Babylon Little League, and was president of the Babylon Booster Club from 1983 to 1984. He loved to spend his free time attending the sporting events of his nine grandchildren, studying genealogy and summering at his house in Hartwick, New York. In addition to his wife, Mr. Schweitzer is survived by his children: Karen Creswell and her husband James of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Tim and his wife Ginny of Babylon, and John and his wife Jeannie of West Islip. His grandchildren, Timmy, Bryan, Katie, Eric, Stephen, Jacqueline, Danielle, Kristina and Holly and his brother Herb and his wife Rose of Ormond beach, Florida also survive him, as do his sisters-in-law: Norma of Ballston Spa, New York; Catherine of Hartwick, New York; Kathy Martino and her husband Al of Seaford, New York, and Nancy Wray and her husband Dan of Rahway, New Jersey; his father-in-law Joseph Malchick of Babylon and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his siblings: Bill, Art, Don, Liz Bunt and Margaret Steere.
He reposed at the Chapey & Sons West Islip Funeral Home. A Celebration of the Liturgy of Christian Burial was said at St. Joseph's R.C. Church on Feb. 7, 2008. Interment to follow at a later date in St. Mary's Cemetery in Cooperstown, New York.
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