Memorial service set for Monroe town attorney
MONROE — A memorial service has been scheduled for Town Attorney Jeremy Hayden, who died suddenly on Oct. 29 at age 41.
Hayden’s friends and family are invited to a “celebration of life” from 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 16, at Spadaccino and Leo P. Gallagher & Son Community Funeral Home, 315 Monroe Turnpike, Monroe. The celebration will be followed by a service and words of remembrance at
4:30 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, mourners are asked to consider making a donation to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation,
26 Broadway 14th Floor,
New York, NY 10004 or by visiting http://www.jdrf.org.
Hayden had been Monroe’s town attorney since December 2017 when he was appointed by First Selectman Ken Kellogg. According to an obituary, Hayden was born in Bridgeport and graduated from Newtown High School in 1996.
He went on to attend the University of Connecticut and in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and history. He then attended Quinnipiac University School of Law from 2002 to 2005, where he graduated magna cum laude.
In 2009, Jeremy joined a small general practice law firm in Fairfield, where he eventually became a named partner of Ferrara Hayden P.C. In 2014, he started his own law practice, The Hayden Law Firm P.C., on Main Street in Monroe, where he practiced primarily in the areas of commercial litigation, municipal law, personal injury, land use, business representation and corporate law.