Eugene J. Obermayer

Eugene J. Obermayer, who was director of CYO on Staten Island for 18 years, died at his home there on Dec. 23. He was 85. A Funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 4 at his parish church, St. Mary of the Assumption. Burial was at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Mr. Obermayer was named director of CYO on Staten Island in 1959 after serving as assistant director since 1951. He became director of CYO in Manhattan in 1977 but returned to Staten Island the following year to direct the Senior Guild, a program under CYO auspices. He retired in 1990. Born on Staten Island, he became a junior counselor at the CYO's Camp Hayes for boys in Port Jervis in 1936. He served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. He became program director of Staten Island CYO and then director of Camp Hayes. In 1949 he launched the CYO Day Camp for boys on Staten Island. In 1987 he was named the first recipient of Staten Island CYO's John L.F. Sipp Award for his more than 40 years of service. He was predeceased by his wife, Geraldine. He is survived by five sons, William, Thomas, Joseph, Richard and Christopher; three daughters, Barbara Cole, Joan Anderson and Mary Beth Obermayer; and two sisters, Annarose Verrault and Marie Rell.