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Ronkonkoma-17 year old boy drowns in Lake Ronkonkoma

June 20, 1941 2215 hours. 17 year old John Bedell was swimming near the Lighthouse Hotel (Where the Islip Town Park is currently) when he began cramping up and could not swim back to shore. The Ronkonkoma Fire Department pulled him out of the water but was unable to save him.

This is the 3rd tragedy to strike the Bedell family in the past few years. Two of the victims sisters were killed along with Robert Seekamp when the school bus they were riding in was struck by a train in Holbrook at the Broadway Avenue Railroad crossing.

The Suffolk County News 12-20-1935

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