Obituaries

Sep 25, 2012

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Services: Our Lady Help of Christian's RC Church Saturday, September 29,2012 9:30AM

Visitation: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home Friday, September 28,2012 2-4 & 7-9PM

Cemetery: Holy Cross Cemetery

Location: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home

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

Sep 19, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Christopher Todd Grimando, 45, of Huguenot, a construction company owner, died Wednesday in Staten Island University Hospital, Prince's Bay. Born in Brooklyn, he was brought to Castleton Corners as a child and settled in Huguenot in 2004. A graduate of Susan Wagner High School, he was the owner of GRIMCO Construction Corp. He loved working, spending time...

Sep 16, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Longtime Tottenville resident Jean Jachcinski, 74, a doting mother and grandmother, died Sunday at her home in Red Bank, N.J. Born Jean Glowacki in Lyndhurst, N.J., she moved with her family to Tottenville in 1951. She settled in Red Bank in 2002. Mrs. Jachcinski co-owned and operated J&J Pharmacy in Tottenville for 27 years, until it was...

Sep 15, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Lifelong Tottenville resident Matilda (Tillie) Mazurek, 94, a former beautician and seamstress who loved to read and spend time with her many grandchildren, died yesterday in Staten Island University Hospital, Prince's Bay. Born Matilda Martino, the Island native worked as a beautician with her sisters at a shop in Port Richmond for several years before gaining employment...

Sep 14, 2012

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Services: St. Joseph's RC Church-Rossville Tuesday, September 18,2012 10:30AM

Visitation: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home Monday, September 17,2012 2-4 & 7-9PM

Cemetery: Resurrection Cemetery (Staten Island)

Location: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home

Church: St. Joseph's RC Church-Rossville

Sep 11, 2012

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Services: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home Monday, September 17,2012 10:00AM

Visitation: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home Sunday, September 16,2012 7-10PM

Cemetery: St. Raymond's Cemetery

Location: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home

Church: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home

Sep 8, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Michael Day, 42, a restaurant food manager and a life long resident of Pleasant Plains, died Saturday at home of cancer. A graduate of Tottenville High School, Mr. Day also graduated from the Culinary Institute of New York in 1990. Mr. Day was a food manager for a restaurant in Lincoln Center, Manhattan....

Aug 28, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Former Staten Islander Louise Scheid, 92, a retired school attendance aide, died Tuesday in the Health First Regional Medical Center, Melbourne, Fla. Born Louise Marie Jeffers in Stapleton, she moved to Pleasant Plains in 1960 and to Melbourne in 2007. A graduate of McKee High School, Mrs. Scheid was an attendance aide at Bernstein Intermediate School in...

Aug 28, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Remembered as a devoted and loving grandfather, Salvatore Passalacqua, 69, died Tuesday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze. He was born on Manhattan's West Side, moved to the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn as a teenager, and graduated from Lafayette High School. He relocated to Staten Island 40 years ago and lived in Castleton Corners until moving...

Aug 26, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Frances Margaret Reckhow, 97, of Tottenville, a New Jersey native who had many talents and interests, died Sunday in Staten Island University Hospital, Prince's Bay. She was born Frances Margaret Heckman in Newark, but early on spent summers in Tottenville, where her family operated a refreshment stand, By Heck, on the shoreline at the end of Manhattan...

Aug 26, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Carol F. Johnson, 68, of Prince's Bay, a retired public health adviser who loved conversations with friends and family, died Sunday in Richmond University Medical Center, in West Brighton. Born Carol Ciccolo in the Bronx, she was brought to Great Kills when she was 14 and graduated from New Dorp High School in...

Aug 19, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Anthony DiDomenico, 49, of Peekskill, N.Y., a former Staten Islander, died Sunday at home. Born in Good Samaritan Hospital in West Islip, L.I., Mr. DiDomenico moved with family to Westerleigh when he was 6-years old, then later on, moved to Prince's Bay. Mr. DiDomenico had a great love for trucks, motorcycles and roller-coasters. He also enjoyed watching...

Aug 16, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Robert A. Mandry, 70, of Prince's Bay, a retired Con Edison supervisor and hot rod enthusiast, died Thursday at Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze. Born in Brooklyn, Mr. Mandry graduated from the Westinghouse Trade School in Brooklyn. He moved to Prince's Bay in 1991. He worked for Consolidated Edison for 38 years,...

Aug 16, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Former Staten Islander John Drennan Sr., 91, of Massillon, Ohio, a retired moving company owner, airplane pilot and restorer, and golf enthusiast, died Thursday at the Laurels Nursing Home in Massillon. Born in Pleasant Plains, he graduated from Tottenville High School. He lived in the community until moving to North Canton, Ohio, in...

Aug 14, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Former Staten Islander Thomas Vermaelen of Drums, Pa., a salesman in the steel industry, died Tuesday in the Hospice of the Sacred Heart, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., of cancer. His age was 71. Born in Manhattan, he was reared in Great Kills and West Brighton. He relocated to Pennsylvania in 1996. He graduated from St....

Aug 12, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Tottenville resident Paulette Brown, 69, a retired nurse who loved browsing at yard sales, died Sunday in Staten Island University Hospital, Prince's Bay, of a stroke. Born in Manhattan in 1943, the former Paulette Maher relocated as a teenager to Tottenville, where she remained for the rest of her life. Mrs. Brown worked as a licensed practical...

Aug 8, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Longtime Staten Islander Margaret Balzi, 82, of Dongan Hills, a former insurance agent, died Wednesday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze. Born Margaret Britlan in Fall River, Mass., she moved to Staten Island in 1936, settling in Stapleton. She graduated from McKee High School and moved to Dongan Hills in 1954. She...

Aug 7, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Former Staten Islander Nancy DeMartino, 67, of The Villages, Fla., a retired executive secretary, died Tuesday at home. Born Nancy Hricewhich in Brooklyn, she also lived in Peekskill, N.Y., before returning to Brooklyn. She lived in Bay Terrace and Prince's Bay before moving to Florida. Mrs. DeMartino worked as an executive secretary for...

Aug 7, 2012

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Services: Immediate Cremation

Visitation:

Cemetery: Cremation Will Be Private

Location: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home

Aug 3, 2012

fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- George Williams, 83, a retired insurance broker, died Friday in Staten Island University Hospital, Prince's Bay. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he graduated from Boys High School and moved to Prince's Bay in 1986. Mr. Williams was a self-employed insurance broker at Alcar, located in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn for 45 years,...