Maggie Kinane, who taught social studies to thousands of Comsewogue High School students over a two-decade career, died July 30 at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore. She was 61. The cause was a coronary ailment, said her husband, Michael Kinane.

Kinane started her career working for travel companies including Gogo and 206 Tours, a Hauppauge company that organizes Catholic pilgrimages. By the early 2000s, when the travel business began shedding jobs and she turned to teaching, she had traveled to nearly every country in Europe and many in the rest of the world. "She had such a wealth of knowledge, and she wanted to pass it on to other people," said Michael Kinane, a retired carpenter. The couple lived in Bay Shore.

After earning her teaching certificate from Dowling College, sh

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