Obituaries

Mar 10, 2013

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Services: Our Lady Help of Christian's RC Church Wednesday, March 13,2013 10:00AM

Visitation: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home Tuesday, March 12,2013 2-4 & 7-9PM

Cemetery: Resurrection Cemetery (Staten Island)

Location: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home

Church: Our Lady Help of Christians R.C.Church

Mar 8, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Lifelong Staten Islander John (Jack) T. Schron, 63, of Eltingville, died Friday in Staten Island University Hospital, Prince's Bay. Born in Tottenville, Mr. Schron lived in Pleasant Plains before settling in Eltingville in the mid-1990s. He was a detective for the NYPD in Manhattan, retiring in 1996. He graduated from Tottenville High School. Mr. Schron enjoyed spending...

Mar 7, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Margaret Wilson, 87, of Richmond Valley, a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, died Thursday in the Staten Island University Hospital, in Ocean Breeze. She was born and raised Margaret Lombardi in Brooklyn. She also lived in Tottenville before settling in Richmond Valley. Mrs. Wilson worked in Manhattan for MGM Studios before her marriage,...

Mar 4, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Frederick Valentine Burkley, 80, of Annadale, a retired city firefighter and a doting grandfather, died Monday in the Staten Island University Hospital, in Ocean Breeze. Born in Tottenville, the lifelong Islander settled in Annadale in 1955. Mr. Burkley graduated from Tottenville High School. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from Wagner College, Grymes Hill,...

Mar 3, 2013

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Services: St. Agnes RC Church Wednesday, March 6,2013 9:45AM

Visitation: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home Tuesday, March5,2013 2-4 & 7-9PM

Cemetery: The Greenwood Cemetery

Church: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home

Mar 2, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Robert Byrne, 25, of Prince's Bay, a landscape designer who enjoyed fishing and boating, died Saturday at home. Born in Rossville, he moved with family to Charleston when he was 15 years old. He moved to Prince's Bay in 2011. Mr. Byrne graduated from Tottenville High School in 2004. He had worked as a landscape designer for...

Mar 1, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Alexander Minko, 94, of Rossville, a retired social worker, died Friday in the Eger Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, Egbertville. Born in Brooklyn, Mr. Minko settled in Rossville 18 years ago. Mr. Minko worked for 22 years as a social worker in Queens for the New York City Department of Social Services. Mr....

Feb 25, 2013

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Services: St. Joseph's RC Church-Rossville Thursday, February 28,2013 10:00AM

Visitation: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home Wednesday, February 27,2013 2-4 & 7-9PM

Cemetery: Long Island National Cemetery

Location: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home

Church: St. Joseph's RC Church-Rossville

Feb 24, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Howard (Buzz) Burroughs, 78, of Pleasant Plains, a U.S. Air Force veteran and �retired businessman who loved his family, sports and music, died Sunday in Staten Island University Hospital, in Ocean Breeze. Born and raised in Eltingville, he attended Tottenville High School. He settled in Pleasant Plains in 1963. Mr. Burroughs served in the Air Force from...

Feb 23, 2013

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Services: 11:00 AM Mass of Christian burial, on Tuesday February 26, 2013 at Our Lady Help of Christians R.C. Church. Followed by Burial in Resurrection Cemetery.

Visitation: Friends will be received on Monday February 25, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM

Cemetery: Resurrection Cemetery (Staten Island)

Location: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral...

Feb 23, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Salvatore J. Caravello, 57, a Richmond Valley resident with a talent for auto mechanics, died Saturday in Staten Island University Hospital, Prince's Bay. Born in Brooklyn, Mr. Caravello moved to Westerleigh 15 years ago. He settled in Richmond Valley in 2003. Mr. Caravello took apart his first car engine at the age of 12 and realized that...

Feb 23, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Maria Teresa Vacca, 80, of Prince's Bay, a homemaker who enjoyed holiday gatherings, died Saturday in Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center and Home. Born Maria Teresa Galante in Manhattan, she was brought to Brooklyn as a child and moved to Graniteville in 1977. She also lived in Arden Heights before settling in Prince's Bay in 2007. She...

Feb 22, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Philip Maffie, 58, of Rossville, a city Sanitation Department worker and a loving family man, died Friday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze. Born and raised in St. George, he was a graduate of Curtis High School. Mr. Maffie moved to Graniteville in 1983, to Meiers Corners in 1989, and settled in Rossville in 2003. He...

Feb 21, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Nancy C. Reiss, 70, of Huguenot, a retired bank teller and bookkeeper who enjoyed spending time with family, died Thursday at home. Born Nancy Ambler on Staten Island, she moved to Chula Vista, Calif., for five years during the 1960s and in the late 1960s returned to the Island and settled in Westerleigh....

Feb 20, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Lifelong Tottenville resident Nicholas J. Filimon, 86, a retired chemist, died Wednesday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze. A graduate of Tottenville High School, he was a member of the school band and was its oldest living member, according to his family. He later earned a degree in chemistry from Wagner College,...

Feb 16, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Brooklyn native Yolanda D'Angelo, 88, of Prince's Bay, a retired bookkeeper for her family's catering business, died Saturday at home. Born Yolanda Morici in Brooklyn, she moved to Todt Hill in 1964 before settling in Prince's Bay in 1994. A homemaker, she worked as a head teller at a Chase Bank in Brooklyn...

Feb 11, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Florence Aversano Amendola Milo, 99, of Pleasant Plains, a retired seamstress and frequent friendship club visitor, died Monday in Staten Island University Hospital, Prince's Bay, following a brief illness. Born one of 11 children in Brooklyn, the former Florence Aversano moved to Queens before settling in Port Richmond in 1985. She moved to Pleasant Plains in 1993....

Feb 6, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Erna Fridriksson, 76, a Prince's Bay resident who enjoyed spending time with her family, died Wednesday at home. Born Erna Thordarsdottir in Reykjavik, Iceland, she moved to Manhattan in 1958; Brooklyn in 1963; Willowbrook in 1969, and Prince's Bay in the 1980s. A homemaker, she also worked as a seamstress in her youth and then as a...

Jan 30, 2013

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Services: Rosehill Crematory Monday, February 4, 2013

Visitation: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home Sunday, February 3,2013 2-4 & 7-9PM

Cemetery: Rosehill Crematory

Location: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home

Jan 30, 2013

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Nicholas Bellino, 24, of Woodrow, died Wednesday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze. Born on Staten Island, he was raised in Eltingville before moving to Woodrow in 1995. He was educated at the Seton Foundation for Learning, and later graduated from Bishop Ahern High School, Graniteville, and was employed at Lifestyles for the Disabled, Willowbrook. Mr....