WAPPINGERS FALLS – Veterans and supporters from throughout the region gathered in Wappingers Falls on Friday to pay final respects to Marine Corps veteran Richard “Richie” McCabe, 83, who passed away with no family to mourn the loss of the veteran. A funeral mass for McCabe, a parishioner at Zion Episcopal Church in Wappingers Falls, was held in his church, presided over by Father Alex Herasimtschuk, and attended by dozens of veterans from the tri-state area.

McCabe was interred at the Wappinger Rural Cemetery after the mass.

Dutchess County Director of Veteran Services Adam Roche, himself a battle-tested Marine, reached out to several veteran organizations to make sure that McCabe was honored and remembered for his willingness to sacrifice himself for his countrymen at his funeral. “T

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