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Our Staff
Staff members of McManus Lorey Funeral Home are caring and experienced professionals who understand that each family is unique and has personal requests and traditions. These requests and traditions are of utmost importance to our staff of licensed funeral directors.
Charles Lorey President, Manager & Licensed Funeral Director
Charles was born and raised
in Ridgewood and Glendale Queens. He attended St. Matthias Grammar School and St. John’s Prep High School. He went on to Farmingdale University, where he graduated in 1974 where he majored in Mortuary Science. Charles completed his residency and was licensed as a funeral director in 1975. After many years of working in funeral homes in Queens and Upstate NY, he moved to Medford in 1981 and purchased McManus-Lorey Funeral Home.
Charles has been very active in the local community and has served as President of the Farmingville Chamber of Commerce, Farmingville Civic Association. He has given many volunteer hours to St. Sylvester’s Parish Outreach over the years. He is currently a Board of Director for the Medford Chamber of Commerce. He has gone on to achieve further education through Empire State College when he graduated in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in Social Work. Charles also became an ordained minister and has his Master of Divinity. He also studied and trained to be a Reiki Master and has studied intensively A Course in Miracles. He was a member of the NYC Gay Men’s Chorus where he sang for many years in Carnegie Hall in NYC.
In his free time, he likes to spend time at
his house in the Catskill mountains. He loves to spend time with his grandson and watch him play soccer.
Dorothy Pacimeo- Comodore Vice-President & Licensed Funeral Director
Dorothy C. Pacimeo-Comodore, CFSP is a licensed Funeral Director. She graduated from the Mortuary Science curriculum at Farmingdale University in 1974. She passed her State and National Boards and completed her year Residency at Bayport Funeral Home. She was fully licensed in July of 1975.
Dorothy received a Bachelor of Science Degree in May 2000 and was inducted into the Alpha Chi Society from Dowling College in Oakdale, NY.
She presently lives on Long Island with her husband Gregory. She has two adult children, Corinne Lorey and Christian Lorey. In March of 2014 she was blessed with her first grandchild, Conor Patrick.
Dorothy is a pioneer of women in funeral service. When she began her journey into the Mortuary Science field she was one of only six women in a class of sixty men.
She is the Vice President and co-owner of McManus-Lorey Funeral Home in Medford and former CEO and Manager of New York Atlantic Funeral Services.
Dorothy continues to enhance her professional career through numerous seminars, conventions and presentations with National Funeral Directors Association, New York State Funeral Directors and Nassau-Suffolk Funeral Directors Association and has achieved the title CFSP - Certified Funeral Service Practitioner - from the Adademy of Professional Funeral Service Practice.
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