Roger Montgomery, '43 graduate of (then called) Port Washington Senior High School, died on Oct. 25, 2003, in Berkeley, CA, at the age of 78. He attended Oberlin, later going to Harvard to study architecture. In 1946, he became part of the US Army's intelligence operations, monitoring Russian communications from Germany. He returned to Washington, DC, and helped create the government's Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. With a specialty in architecture and urban planning, he became a full professor at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and later at the University of California at Berkeley where he created an Urban Affairs degree program and became Dean of the College of Environmental Design.

Dean Montgomery is survived by three sons, six grandchildren and many friends. A memorial is planned for spring 2004.

May 31, 1926 - Nov. 26, 2003

Patricia J. Britton, 77, born to Marion Jane and Charles S. Faldi in Flushing, died the day before Thanksgiving surrounded by the family she cared so well for.

She resided much of her life on Long Island, attending high school in Manhasset, and raising her own children in Port Washington. She had been residing in Vallejo, CA, near her children since 1987.

"Pat," a devoted mother, wife, grandmother and animal lover, is survived by her husband of 55 years, Manhasset High School sweetheart Jack "Red" Britton; her children, Britt, Michele and Cassie; and her two grandchildren, Sophia and Rosalyn Lemmo.

Pat will be remembered as a down-to-earth, wise and loving woman. She loved the ocean, music, dancing, art, ice cream and a good laugh. She took great pride in her children, who were always certain of her never-ending love. She will be dearly missed.

The family respectfully requests that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions be made to your local SPCA.

Margaret J. Badolato (nee O'Connor), of Port Washington, died on Dec. 7, 2003. Margaret is survived by her husband Dominick; and her children, Michael, Stephen (Dina), Dominick (Toni), Patrick (Anne) and Robert (Lisa). She is also survived by her siblings Maureen Fulton and Bryan O'Connor Jr.; eight grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews. Margaret was predeceased by her son John and her sister Patricia Locke. Arrangements were made by the Austin F. Knowles Funeral Home, Port Washington. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Peter of Alcantara RC Church. Interment LI National Cemetery, Pinelawn. Donations in her memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, 6800 Jericho Tpke., Suite 200W, Syosset, NY 11791 or the Alzheimer's Association, LI Chapter, 3281 Veterans Memorial Hwy., Suite E-13, Ronkonkoma, NY 11779.

Dr. Edmund N. Goodman, a prominent NY surgeon, died in Manhasset on Dec. 9, 2003. He was 95. Dr. Goodman was a pioneer in the study of the autonomic nervous system. He developed the electrogastrogram with Gilbert Adair at Cambridge University in the 1930s and went on to become a specialist in abdominal surgery at Columbia Presbyterian and Mount Sinai Hospitals. Dr. Goodman, whose patients included such personages as former NY Governor W. Averell Harriman, Eleanor Roosevelt and Vladimir Horowitz, put his reputation on the line in the 1980s fighting for innovative treatments of chronic pain.

During WWII, Dr. Goodman was stationed at the Balboa Navy Hospital in the Canal Zone in Panama and spent 18 months with the US Navy medical corps in the Galapagos Islands. In 1946 he returned to New York and after being stationed at St. Alban's Navy Hospital in Queens left the Navy with the rank of lieutenant commander.

Dr. Goodman was born in New York and educated at the City College of NY. He received his MD from Columbia University and did post-graduate research at Cambridge University in England. He was associated clinical professor of surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital from 1965 until his retirement to Sands Point in 1982. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the NY Academy of Medicine, a member of the NY Surgical Society and the American Board of Surgery. He was recently interviewed by the Medical Oral History Program of the Port Washington Public Library.

Dr. Goodman is survived by his wife, Marian Powers; his children, Wendy Goodman, Tonne Goodman, Stacy Goodman Vincent and Edmund Goodman; and his grandchildren, Cole and Evie Gimbel and Liliana Dirks-Goodman.

Arrangements were made by the Austin F. Knowles Funeral Home, Port Washington. A memorial service will be held Dec. 20 at 11 a.m. at the All Souls Unitarian Church, Lexington Ave. at 80th St., New York. In lieu of flowers send contributions to Columbia University, Dept. of Surgery, Edmund N. Goodman Educational Fund, 630 W. 168th St., New York, NY 10023.