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The brave, black-clad widow of an NYPD veteran killed on the job by an accused drunken driver fought through tears Tuesday in a heartbreaking farewell to the love of her life.

Heroic Irene Tsakos was the last of four speakers at the Long Island funeral honoring her beloved spouse Anastasios, with a hush falling over the mourners as a relative helped her walk to the front of the packed Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Shrine Church.

She spoke of their eight years as husband and wife, recalling the times they laughed together, and how her heart would skip a beat at the sight of him.

“Lord, you have my angel now,” she concluded as the couple’s two small children sat in the front row of the service and a few fellow cops wept. “Please hold him near. I love you always and forever.”

Tsakos, in a house of worship filled with family and friends, fellow police officers, Mayor de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, choked up as she vowed to keep her husband’s memory alive for their 6-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son.

Funeral of NYPD officer killed in hit-and-run.

“He was the best father, a hands-on dad,” said the widow, speaking one week after her husband left their Long Island home for the midnight shift and never returned. “There was nothing he wouldn’t do for them. He told them funny bedtime stories that would keep them up instead of putting them to sleep.

“I would watch my husband playing with the kids and silently say to God, ‘Thank you.’ I had my other half, my best friend. ‘It’s you and me, babe,’ he always said.”

When the service ended, she was the last to bid goodbye to her spouse, kneeling over the casket before putting her face close to his.

The 14-year police veteran was recalled as a cop’s cop, an upbeat presence, a lover of motorcycles and helicopters at the sorrowful sendoff. The officer was killed April 27 on the Long Island Expressway, with the alleged hit-and-run driver charged with vehicular manslaughter, driving while intoxicated and driving without a license after her arrest in the shocking death.

Officer Anastasios Tsakos (104PCT)

The casket holding the Highway Patrol officer, topped with a blanket of flowers in the front of the church, was flanked by two large photos of Tsakos as a single lit candle burned nearby. Thousands of uniformed officers lined Pulaski Road in Greenlawn, L.I., for the funeral procession where fellow NYPD highway cops rode their motorcycles to honor the man known as “Tasso.”

A fence along the route was decorated with Tsakos’ name and shield number.

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His parents Stavros and Anna came in from Greece to attend the funeral celebrated in both Greek and English. Shea and de Blasio sat in the front row with the officer’s family, with the children taking seats on the laps of their relatives.

Shea announced the officer’s posthumous promotion to detective first grade, presenting Tsakos’ shield to his widow immediately after lionizing the officer as a role model who took just three sick days in 14 years on the job.

Thousands of NYPD Officers and members from Police forces from all over the country attend the funeral services for NYPD Highway Patrol Officer Anastasios Tsakos. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/for New York Daily News)

 

 

 

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