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Elaine Greenblatt of Newburgh, NY passed away peacefully at home on
November 24, 2018 after a long and courageous battle with metastatic
breast cancer.The first child of Bella and Seymour Greenblatt, she
was born in Newburgh while her father was away at war in the South
Pacific, meeting him for the first time when she was two. They
quickly made up for lost time. Always an excellent student, she
graduated from Newburgh Free Academy in 1961 with honors. She
attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, spending
her junior year at the Sorbonne in Paris where she developed a
never-ending love for that city. Elaine returned to complete her
Bachelor's degree in American History at Greensboro in 1965. She
then began a graduate program in American History at Columbia
University. While at Columbia, she assisted in compiling the John
Jay papers, re-discovering a love for the law first instilled in her
by her father. After completing her graduate studies, Elaine began
to study the law in earnest at Brooklyn Law School, obtaining her
Doctorate of Jurisprudence in 1979. She began her legal career as an
associate to Herald Price Fahringer, one of the most respected
criminal defense attorneys of the time. After working with Mr.
Fahringer on the Jeanne Harris case, she decided to shift gears,
entering the world of hostile take-overs at Fried, Frank, working
far too many hours away from her daughter. Desiring a better family
life, Elaine returned to Newburgh in 1983 and began work as an
assistant County Attorney in Orange County. When New York State
began a pilot program to ease the burden on the Family Courts, she
applied for and became one of New York's first Hearing Examiners,
charged with the responsibility of making sure that parents paid
child support. Her tirades against errant parents, for whom she had
no patience, could often be heard outside the courtroom. When her
position was elevated to Support Magistrate, she was transferred to
the Dutchess County Family Court where her dedication to the welfare
of children became well-known, especially by parents who had failed
to comply with her orders. She retired from the Court in 2013 but
continued to keep abreast of the law through her friends and
colleagues for the rest of her life. Elaine was a voracious reader,
an avid gardener and an opera lover, but most of all she loved her
daughter, Stephanie and her granddaughter, Dylann, who she visited
often in California. She is survived by her daughter, Stephanie,
Stephanie's husband, Brian and their daughter, Dylann; her brother,
Richard and his wife, Louise; her sister, Debra and her husband,
Edward and her brother, Michael and his wife, Elizabeth; many nieces
and nephews who all loved their Auntie dearly, and her amazing dog,
Millie. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Sunday,
December 2 the Temple Beth Jacob in Newburgh. In lieu of flowers,
please send donations in Elaine's memory to St. Luke's Cornwall
Hospital, Newburgh, NY or to support the research of Dr. James
Harding at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Attn: Elliott
Pollock, 885 Second Ave., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10017. Please
indicate that your gift is in memory of Elaine Greenblatt. The
family wishes to thank the staff and physicians at St. Luke's
Cornwall Hospital for their loving care during some of Elaine's most
difficult hours, her many, many friends who stood by her throughout
her final battles, and Hospice of Orange County for their guidance
during Elaine's final days. Arrangements are by the Doulin Funeral
Home in Newburgh.
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