Isseks
MIDDLETOWN – Attorney Robert Isseks loved to take his daily walks around Middletown and especially enjoyed his strolls through Hillside Cemetery. It was there that he collapsed and died on Monday afternoon as he took his daily walk. He was 65.
Isseks, who was special counsel to the cemetery board, will be laid to rest there in a private service. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday at Applebee-McPhillips Funeral Home in Middletown.
Middletown Mayor Joseph DeStefano said Isseks was “a friend who had passion for the city. He was a good, decent man who will be sorely missed.”
Expressions of sorrow were made by several local officials at Tuesday
night’s common council meeting.
City Corporation Counsel Richard Guertin worked with Isseks for years.
“We gave him a nickname of ‘Mr. RSR’ for ‘razor sharp research’ and he used that many times in helping the city,” Guertin said. “We lawyers often talk about giants of the law like Louis Brandeis, former Supreme Court Justice; Bob was a giant of the law here in Orange County and beyond.”
Isseks practiced municipal and civil rights law and attorney Michael Sussman, who is a noted civil rights attorney, said when he first came to Orange County over 30 years ago, he met with Isseks. “He was intellectually highly-gifted and sensitivity human being,” Sussman said.
