Gartland
POUGHKEEPSIE – Mayor Robert Rolison eulogized Michael Gartland, who died after a bought with cancer at age 70 on Friday, April 20.
The Poughkeepsie mayor said on Sunday that Gartland’s life “was dedicated to the law, to equity, and to justice.”
Gartland was an attorney as well as a community leader. He served as vice chairman of the city’s planning board and “his volunteerism would lead him to service on the board of directors of some of the most prestigious organizations in the area including the James J. McCann Charitable Trust, the McCann Foundation, the Charlotte Cunneen-Hackett Charitable Trust, and Marist College.”
Rolison said Gartland’s “advocacy and stewardship helped spur important civil projects at the Bardavon, the McCann Memorial Golf Course, Our Lady of Lourdes High School, and Marist College and the impact of his life’s work will be felt here for many years.”
