Sean Dylan Ahern, 45, passed away very unexpectedly on Friday March 8th of 2024. Sean graduated from Syracuse University on a full scholarship. After college, Sean joined the Army serving in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Afghanistan, he served as an intelligence officer from 2000-2005 earning a Bronze Star for acts of heroism. After the military, Sean became an Endicott Patrolman for 19 years.
My life with Sean began in 2012 when I met him at Kelly’s restaurant in Syracuse. After that, it was a whirlwind of buying a house, getting married in Ireland and very quickly after, expecting our first baby girl. Molly Rose would be the eldest of our four babies: Madeleine Joan, Margaret Aisling and finally John Edmund. Sean considered his children to be the greatest of all his achievements. Sean sacrificed himself at every turn for our benefit. He would sleep for an hour after taking a double shift, go to class at BU (he earned his Master’s Degree in Public Administration), wake up and dust himself off just to come with me to doctors’ appointments, playgrounds, open houses and anything else that the kids were involved in; only to go back into work and do it all over again. Of all the hats that Sean wore, being a father was truly his best.
In 2020 Sean and I made the decision to move our family to Skaneateles, NY. This was the best decision we ever could have made. Sean was unapologetically Irish. Just ask him. Especially after a few pints with the lads. He drank with them. He laughed with them. He loved them. His other favorite times and memories were spent on the farm with his mom and step father, Christine and Lance; laughing and spending precious time with them whenever he was able. Sean loved his siblings Laurie, Nikole, Colleen and Andrew. Laurie would babysit Sean for hours when he was little. Sean and Nikole were inseparable as children. Every vacation we would spend in Florida with his father John and his step mother Jane, making memories that will always be some of my favorites that we shared. John was, and always will be Sean’s best friend. But family wasn’t always blood. Chris Rockhill, Rick Gallo, Obed Varughese, Donal O’Saughnessy, Julio Santos, Jake Quill, Tom O’Toole, Jeff Dove, Willie Colon, and Dino DiCarlo, know that you your friendship helped hold his world together. Sean, my darling husband, you were the only light in so many people’s dark places, myself included.
Funeral service will be held on Friday, March 15th at 10am at St. Mary’s of the Lake Church, Skaneateles, followed by a celebration of Sean’s Life at the Skaneateles American Legion Post #239 at Noon. Burial will be Private.
The family has asked Please No Flowers donation’s can be made to Lindsay Ahern. To send condolences, visit: robertdgrayfuneralhome.com.
