FLORAL PARK, NY. \u2014 The parish community at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church is in mourning Monday after a parishioner died while shoveling snow during Sunday\u2019s storm. <\/p>\n
Parish officials said 60-year-old Roger McGovern was a retired NYPD officer, an usher at the church, a member of the Knights of Columbus and had been a parishioner since moving to Floral Park in 1995. A Queens native, McGovern is survived by his wife and their three daughters, parish officials said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was certainly a family man, a very good friend to all, very loyal, very helpful,\u201d Parish Board member Matt Troy said Monday. \u201cAnyone that needed help, Roger was there to step in and give a hand.\u201d <\/p>\n
Troy said no cause of death had been given as of Monday morning. The parish community gathered for a virtual prayer service in McGovern\u2019s honor Sunday night, which Troy described as \u201csomber.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThe whole town is in shock, from one end to the other,\u201d Troy said. \u201cRoger was a genuinely good person, to so many different corners of the town\u2026there are a lot of different groups that Roger touched, and he was so meaningful in all of those groups.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FLORAL PARK, NY. \u2014 The parish community at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church is in mourning Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-113081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}