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Family, Friends Gather to Remember Ben Olmstead: ‘Dad Really Was the Mayor of New Canaan’
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More than 300 relatives, friends and colleagues—including dozens of New Canaan municipal employees and officials—on Wednesday gathered at St. Jerome Roman Catholic Church in Norwalk to remember Ben Olmstead as a man of rare and dependable strength in character that showed itself in qualities of consideration, love and generosity of spirit. A native and lifelong resident of Norwalk who worked as a surveyor in the New Canaan Department of Public Works for 37 years, Olmstead died July 24 following an accident. He was 71. Olmstead is survived by his wife of 40 years, Donna Pollastro Olmstead, daughters Kim Olmstead Dennehy and Lisa Olmstead Weed and their husbands, granddaughter Julia Grace Dennehy, sister Patricia Weaver and her husband and many extended relatives.