Hundreds of mourners remember Robert Boden
Hundreds of mourners turned out to say goodbye to longtime Riverhead Police Detective Robert Boden Friday morning at St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church.
Uniformed Riverhead Police officers, New York State Troopers and members of then McGann-Mercy High School football team — Mr. Boden sponsored a yearly award for a Mercy football player — lined the road leading to the church. The Riverhead Fire Department hung a flag from two ladder trucks.
Members of the Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance and the Flanders Northampton Volunteer Ambulance also were present, as were the Eastern Long Island Police Pipes and Drums, which played as Mr. Boden’s casket was carried into the church.
Mr. Boden, a 32-year veteran of the Riverhead Police Department who achieved the rank of detective, died on Oct. 7 at the age of 54 at Stony Brook University Hospital after suffering a pulmonary embolism a few days earlier.
