Rosemarie Hughes

Rosemarie Hughes, a former longtime resident of Briarcliff Manor and recently of Tarrytown, died on January 16, 2012. She was 85.

Mrs. Hughes was born on September 5, 1926 in New York City to the late Jeremiah and Ellen (Dempsey) Murphy. She was the founder and President of St. Jude Habilitation Institute in Tarrytown.

She is survived by her daughter Mary Valentine and her husband George; her son Adam Hughes; her three grandchildren, Jennifer Boyd and her husband Steven, Heather Bergman and her husband Austin, and Michael Valentine and his wife Ellen; and two great-granddaughters, Aveda and Arden Bergman.

Visiting Thursday 9am with a prayer service at 10am at Ballard-Durand Funeral Home, 2 Maple Ave, White Plains. Interment at Mount Calvary Cemetery.