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Lawrence (Larry) Sesso August 22, 2015 Obituary A wake for former Sayville Fire Department Chief Lawrence G. Sesso, 40, who worked full time as a Port Authority police officer at Kennedy Airport died on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015, is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday at Raynor & D'Andrea Funeral Home in West Sayville, officials said. A team guy, with a contagious smile and unyielding dedication to his work helping others. That was how Lawrence G. Sesso, a former Sayville Fire Department chief who worked as a Port Authority police officer, was described Tuesday -- three days after he died at age 40. Total shock was how Sayville Fire Commissioner Don Corkery described the news of the death, which occurred as Sesso was headed home after marching with departmental members in a Town of Islip parade in neighboring Central Islip. "At 40 years old," Corkery said, "you do not expect a fireman to pass away like that. Especially, a guy like Larry. He was a very happy guy, a very outgoing guy . . . A team guy, all-around. I'm beside myself." A 23-year member of the fire department, Sesso, who served as chief from 2009 to 2011, is survived by his wife, Carolyn, and three children, Gregory, Deanna and Lauren. A wake is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday at Raynor & D'Andrea Funeral Home in West Sayville, with burial Thursday at St. Ann's Cemetery in Sayville. Visiting takes place Tuesday from 7:00pm to 9:30pm and Wednesday from 2:00pm to 4:30pm and from 7:00pm to 9:30pm, with a service at the funeral home on West Montauk Highway on Thursday at 10:30am. Officials said drivers can expect West Montauk to be briefly closed down in the area for traffic, particularly during the special fireman's wake salute on Wednesday night.
Sesso joined the NYPD in 1998, serving in the 75th
Precinct. He moved to the Port Authority police in March
2002 and became a PAPD PBA delegate in December 2012. He
worked at Kennedy Airport. Nunziato said that while assigned to Kennedy Airport command, Sesso worked patrol, was "a high-value escort and special weapons officer," and also served, at varying times, as a marine patrol officer; a police communications specialist; a plainclothes anti-crime officer; and, as a Federal Aviation Administration certified aircraft rescue firefighter. Corkery said Sesso was en route to the parade on Saturday afternoon when he and a fellow volunteer responded to a call at a nearby assisted living facility. The incident was a minor content fire, confined to one room, Corkery said, noting Sesso had remained in the fire vehicle to work communications -- one of his specialties. After the fire, Sesso joined fellow Sayville members marching in the parade, then attended a barbecue. En route home, he suffered distress; near, it turned out, the Central Islip-Hauppauge Ambulance garage. EMTs immediately began trying to resuscitate Sesso, transporting him to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, Corkery said. Sesso never recovered. The cause of death is pending the outcome of an autopsy. Corkery said officials believe it may be heart-related. Corkery said that when volunteers got back from the hospital, more than 100 acquaintances and residents had gathered outside the Sayville firehouse -- all, in a show of support. "He was in good health," Corkery said. "He goes to work every day, does his job. Answers alarms at Sayville. Community service, all the way. "It's just a shame." In lieu of flowers, Sesso's family is requesting donations in his name to the Sayville Fire Department noting: "In Memory of Lawrence G. Sesso."
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