ICYMI: Ex-Owner Of Northport Animal Farm Dies At 83

NORTHPORT, NY — Bill Davenport Jr., the former owner of Lewis Oliver Farm Sanctuary in Northport, has died. He was 83.

Davenport, of Greenlawn, died Monday at Apex Rehabilitation and Nursing Home in Melville, his family told Patch on Wednesday. He had been battling diabetes and congestive heart failure.

Laura Jean Michta, 57, the second of Davenport's three children, called her father a "social butterfly," who ran a successful business.

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Original story by Daniel Hampton.