Dorothy Pagliuco

Lifelong Tottenville resident Dorothy B. Pagliuco, 80, who was devoted to her family, her faith and her community, died Sunday at home.

The former Dorothy Bundesen graduated from Tottenville High School, where she was on the permanent honor roll. She then worked for AT&T in its Manhattan clerical department for four years.

After she and Louis Pagliuco wed and were expecting their first child, she left the workforce and became a dedicated homemaker.

In 1965, the couple was asked to help operate Tottenville Car Service, owned by her father, Adolf Bundesen. Mrs. Pagliuco raised her family and operated the business for 15 years, until it was sold in 1980.

She was an active member of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Tottenville, serving as senior warden, vestry member, president of Episcopal Church Women, and had been church treasurer since 1998. She was recently cited by the Staten Island Council of Churches for her decades-long involvement with St. Stephen's.

Mrs. Pagliuco was a member and past president of the Conference House Auxiliary, a member of the Tottenville Historical Society, and a charter member of the South Shore Swim Club.

She enjoyed sewing, crocheting, quilting, gardening, cooking and baking.

My mom was an exceptional wife, mother, grandmother, community member and churchwoman, willing to help others, and an example of the type of woman we were proud to know and remember, said her daughter, Nancy Schiedo.

Also surviving Mrs. Pagliuco, along with Louis, her husband of 59 years, and her daughter, Nancy, are her sons, Thomas and Mark; her daughter, Carol Harkins, and 10 grandchildren.

The funeral service will be Wednesday at 10 a.m. in St. Stephen's Church Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp. Arrangements are being handled by the Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home, Tottenville.

Services: St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Wednesday, September 11,2013 10:00AM

Visitation: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home Tuesday, September 10,2013 2-4 & 7-9PM

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, contributions to St. Stephen's Episcopal Church 7516 Amboy Road SI,NY 10307 OR VNSNY Hospice 1150 South Avenue, Suite 302 SI,NY 10314 would be appreciated.

Cemetery: Moravian Cemetery

Location: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home

Church: St. Stephen's Episcopal Church