John Dwyer, flight engineer

John P. Dwyer of 61 Sleepy Hollow Road died at Danbury Hospital on Tuesday morning, May 4, 2004. He was 81 years old and the husband of Rosetta Gillen Dwyer.
Mr. Dwyer was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., May 12, 1922, son of Thomas F. and Gertrude Bonzell Dwyer. He attended New York schools and was a World War II U.S. Army Air Force veteran and served as a flight engineer.
Upon discharge from the military, Mr. Dwyer was employed by Trans World Airlines and in later years, Socony and at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. He was a retired dock builder and was a member of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters of New York.
A summer resident of Ridgefield since 1950, he became a permanent resident in 1977 coming from Hollis, Long Island, N.Y. For many years he contributed letters to The Press on issues affecting the town.
Besides his wife of 61 years, Mr. Dwyer is survived by two sons, John Patrick Dwyer Jr., and his wife Victoria of Greenwich, and Daniel A. Dwyer of Ridgefield; a daughter Maryanne Dwyer of Ridgefield; and three sisters, Irene Callahan and Margaret Dwyer, both of Ocean Grove, N.J., and Gertrude Dwyer of Woodside, Queens, N.Y.
Funeral services will take place on Friday morning at 10:30 in the Kane Funeral Home, 25 Catoonah Street. Burial will follow in the Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven, Hawthorne, N.Y.
Friends will be received in the Kane Funeral Home on Thursday from 5 to 8.