Christopher Karb

Christopher Winfield Karb, Jr., of Greenport died at The Shores at Peconic Landing on Saturday, May 26, 2007 at the age of 85. He was retired from the New York Telephone Company as a division manager after thirty-four years of service.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York on August 10, 1921 to Christopher William Karb, Sr. and Grace Ring Karb. He attended Fordham University and the U.S. Merchant Marie Academy and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Adelphi University in 1962.

On April 19, 1947, he married the former Eileen Ann (nee Farrell) at St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church in Great Neck. Together they made their home in New Hyde Park for thirteen years and in Garden City for twenty-five years. They moved to the North Fork and spent seventeen years in Cutchogue and the past four years at Peconic Landing in Greenport.

Mr. Karb was a member of the Telephone Pioneers and locally, he was a board member of the Cutchogue Library and was a member of the Senior Musical Group in Cutchogue where he played drums for fifteen years.

Through the years, he had been a communicant of St. Jose-ph's Roman Catholic Church in Garden City where he taught CCD for more than twelve years and Notre Dame Roman Catholic Church in New Hyde Park. Locally he was a communicant of Our Lady of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church in Mattituck and St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church in Greenport. Mr. and Mrs. Karb were a team couple for Marriage Encounters from 1972 until 1974.

Predeceased on November 3, 2006 by his wife, Eileen; he is survived by five children: Christopher W. Karb, III (Jan) of Fairview, North Carolina, Dorothy (Barry) Fontaine of San Francisco, Ca., Peter William (Laurie) Karb of Milington, N.J., Mary (William) Beyer of Highland Mills, N.Y. and Jennifer (Brian) Sweemey of Fair Oaks, Ca.; and twelve grandchildren: Elizabeth, Christopher and Michael Karb; William, Thomas, John, Maggie and James Beyer; Summer Fontaine and Patrick, Kathryn and Thomas Sweeney; two nieces and one nephew.