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Robert T. Schorr

Wed, 02/19/2020 - 23:15

Feb. 18, 1926-Feb. 16, 2020

Robert T. Schorr of Montauk, a retired police officer, died of heart failure on Sunday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 93.     

Shortly after his 17th birthday, he joined the Marine Corps and served in a dive-bomber squadron during World War II.     

In 1947, he married the former Charlotte A. Motta, who died in 2012. The couple lived in Hempstead and Amityville, where they brought up two daughters, Christine and Robin. Christine died of a brain tumor at 14.     

Mr. Schorr had a 27-year career with the Hempstead Police Department. After his retirement in 1978, he and his wife moved to Montauk, where they had built a house. He worked at the Royal Atlantic resort and started Schorr Caretaker Services, a property management company now run by his grandson Daniel Scheffer.     

He was a member of the Lions Club, the Masons, the Maidstone Gun Club, and the Montauk Lighthouse Committee, and had become so involved with projects in the hamlet that his family referred to him as the unofficial mayor of Montauk.     

Mr. Schorr was born to Leonard and Louise Schorr on Feb. 18, 1926, in Hempstead, and grew up there. He enjoyed traveling, fishing and building fishing poles, assembling and then crashing model airplanes, and volunteering.     

He is survived by his daughter, Robin Scheffer of Weathersfield, Vt., three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.

The family will receive visitors from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Montauk Lighthouse, 2000 Montauk Highway, Montauk 11954. 

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