Claudia Ann McLaughlin

Claudia Ann McLaughlin (nee Horvath), a former longtime resident of Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York, peacefully passed away on Sunday, April 3, 2016 at Glastonbury Health Care Center in Connecticut at the age of eighty-nine. She was born in Lindenhurst, New York to the late Louis and Catherine (Pinter) Horvath. Claudia was a Lindenhurst High School graduate and went on to attend Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She was married to the late John J. McLaughlin. Claudia is survived by her two daughters and their spouses: Joanne and Thomas McElroy of Westerly, Rhode Island and Karen; Charlie Walsh of Glastonbury, Connecticut; and her five granddaughters: Kelly and David Twitchell, Katie and Thomas Carey, Erin and James Piper, Christen Walsh and Megan Walsh; and her four great grandchildren Ben, Jack, Matt and Julia. Claudia is also survived by her brother and spouse, Richard and Marie Horvath of Lindenhurst. Claudia enjoyed being with her family, especially her granddaughters and great grandchildren. She also loved playing golf, bridge and scrabble. Claudia’s family would like to also thank her caregivers Nan and Tina as well as the staff at the Glastonbury Health Care Center. Memorial Visitation will be held, 4:00 – 6:00 pm, on Thursday, April 7, 2016 at Claude R. Boyd-Spencer Funeral Homes, 448 W. Main St. Babylon, New York 11702. www.boyd-spencer.com. Her Funeral Service will take place Thursday, 5:00 pm, at the funeral home. Inurnment is private. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made, in Claudia’s name, to The Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, www.alzfdn.org.

Lord make me an instrument of Thy peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying, that we are born to eternal life. ~ St. Francis of Assisi