Obituaries
Jeannette Macri
Jul 13, 2022
Jeannette D Macri of Pelham Manor, NY, passed away on July 13, 2022. She was 90 years old. Born in the Bronx, New York to Fred G Dress and Edna Mae Smith. Jeannette was the youngest of three children. She was raised in the Bronx where she attended PS 86 and would later graduate from Walton High School. After graduating...
Chantal Nicolas
Jul 12, 2022
Chantal Nicolas of Mount Vernon, New York, passed away on July 12, 2022. She was 64 years old. Born in Saint-Marc, Haiti, to Antoine Diogene and Rose-Laure Casseus. Chantal met her husband; Mathieu in Haiti and, she would later emigrate to the United States with Mathieu and her stepdaughter, Shirley.
Chantal graduated with a master’s degree, and she pursued a career as an elementary school teacher...
Frances Marciano
Jul 4, 2022
Frances Marciano of New Rochelle, New York passed away peacefully with her loving family by her side on July 4,2022. She was 87 years old. Frances was born April 12, 1935, in Reggio Calabria, Italy to the late Rosaria Cicco and Domenica (nee De Cicco). Beloved wife of 55 years to the late Domenico Marciano, and devoted mother of Pasquale...
Presnel Dalmeus
Jul 1, 2022
Presnel (Chamoune) Dalmeus of New Rochelle, New York, passed away on July 1, 2022. He was 63 years old. Born in Liancourt, Haiti, to Civile Registre and Leonne Dalmeus, Presnel emigrated to the United Sates in 1978, at the age of 19.
Presnel started his own transportation company through hard work and determination, he had a generous heart and he...
Henry V. Hayes
Jun 30, 2022
Henry V. Hayes, long-time resident of Pelham, NY, died on June 30, 2022, at age 91. He died peacefully with his wife and children at his bedside. He had been born at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia on August 7, 1930, to parents, George P. Hayes of West Chester, PA and Anne Nissiat Hayes of Lyon, France.
Henry grew...
Edwin Veith
Jun 29, 2022
Edwin Thomas Veith, formerly of Pelham and Quogue, NY, passed away on June 29, 2022, at the age of 90. He was born September 5, 1931, in New York, NY, one of two sons of Mary (Mae) C. Flannery and Edwin J. Veith.
Ed attended Fordham University, participating in the ROTC/USAF program. He graduated in 1953 with a degree in...
Mary Philomena MacShane
Jun 28, 2022
Mary Philomena “Phyllis” MacShane (née Brady) of Hartsdale NY, Formerly of Mullahoran, Dundevan, Co. Cavan, Ireland, passed away on June 28, 2022. She was 95 years old. Retired Nurse. Beloved wife of the late Dermot MacShane and loving mom to Paul (Carole), Brendan (Theresa), Derry, Bernadette (Steve) and Sean (Katherine). Loving grandma of Siobhan, Eileen, Caitlin, Brendan, Cristin, Liam, Shaina,...
Ralph Ambrosio
Jun 27, 2022
Ralph Ambrosio, 72, of Pelham, NY, passed away on June 27, 2022 surrounded by his loving family.
Ralph was born in Bronx, NY on October 23, 1949, to the late Julia and Vincent Ambrosio and came of age in the Belmont/Arthur Avenue section of Bronx, NY. He attended Our Savior Elementary School (1963) and Cardinal Hayes High School, graduating...
Thomas Comer
Jun 27, 2022
“The Big Bamboo” known to some as Tom Comer passed away on Monday, June 27th 2022. He was 46 years old. Born in Glenamaddy to John Collins and Mary Fleming, Tom was the middle of nine children. He was raised in Williamstown where he attended primary school. At the age of ten Tom would emigrate to Wolverhampton, England with his...
James E. Thompson
Jun 27, 2022
James E. Thompson of New Rochelle, New York, passed away on June 27, 2022. He was 69 years old. Born in Chatham, VA., to Andrew Willoughby and Margaret Thompson-Willoughby, James was one of three children. James graduated from Mount Vernon High School, in 1972. James met the love of his life Cornelia, while in high school. The couple would later...
Carlos Humberto Diaz-Matos
Jun 20, 2022
Carlos Humberto Diaz-Matos, MD, 81, of Mount Vernon, NY formerly of Pelham Manor, NY passed away peacefully on Monday June 20, 2022. Born in Barahona, Dominican Republic, Carlos was the eldest of three children. He was raised in the Dominican Republic, where he attended local schools before graduating from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, which he proudly told everyone...
Julia Giantelli
Jun 16, 2022
Julia S. Giantelli of Pelham, New York, passed away on Thursday, June 16, 2022. She was 86 years old. Born in Mount Vernon, New York to John E. Spinazola and Carmella Russo. She graduated from Edison high school where she met her lifelong partner, Guido, and married soon after. They were together for 62 years until 2018 when he passed...
Fergal Joseph Ryan
Jun 16, 2022
Fergal Ryan of Park Slope, Brooklyn formerly of Ballyfermot, Dublin passed away on June 16th 2022. He was 57 years old. Born in Dublin to Michael and Elizabeth Ryan, Fergal was one of three children. He was raised in Ballyfermot where he attended De La Salle Primary School before graduating from St. John’s College in Ballyfermot. Fergal trained as a...
Itoma Alphanso Samuels
Jun 16, 2022
Itoma Alphanso Samuels of Mount Vernon, New York, passed away on June 16, 2022. He was 83 years old. Born in Pell River, Hanover Jamaica, to Lester Samuels and Mildred Lewis, he was raised as one of 10 children. Itoma graduated from Pell River All Ages School in Jamaica. He met his future wife, Joy, as a teenager in Jamaica...
Winifred Bernice Waugh
Jun 11, 2022
Winifred Bernice Waugh of Bronx, New York passed away on June 11th, 2022. She was 88 years old. Born in Christiana, Jamaica, Winifred was number seven of ten children. She was raised in Jamaica where she attended primary and secondary school. After graduating secondary school Winifred would work for the post office for many years. It was during her career...
Peter Lovisa
Jun 8, 2022
Peter R. Lovisa of Pelham Manor, NY, passed away on June 8, 2022 at the age of 95. He was born in the Bronx one of two sons of Angelo and Domenica Lovisa. Peter graduated in 1948 from Cornell University with a Degree in Civil Engineering and served in the United States Navy. Peter married the love of his life,...
Petra Munoz
Jun 6, 2022
Petra Munoz of Pelham, NY formerly of the Bronx passed away on June 6, 2022. She was 94 years old. Born in Manhattan to Rafael and Inocencia Ruiz, Petra was the only child. Petra was raised in Bronx where she attended vocational school. She studied cosmetology and would eventually work for herself in the South Bronx area.
Petra would...
Jo Ann Margaret Librett
Jun 4, 2022
Jo-Ann Margaret Librett passed away on Saturday, June 4, 2022. She was 64 years old. Jo-Ann was born on July 17, 1957 to the late Stephen Lensky and Lillian McKeese in Brooklyn, NY as one of four children, and moved to Pelham, NY with her family while she was young.
Jo-Ann graduated from St. Gabriel’s High School and received her...
Ronald A. Cestone
May 31, 2022
Ronald Anthony Cestone of Bronx, New York, passed away on May 31, 2022. He was 64 years old. Born in New Rochelle, NY to Anthony and Fannie Cestone. Ronald spent most of his childhood in New Rochelle eventually moving to Pelham and graduating from Pelham High School. Ronald worked as a plumber for Burgh Plumbing and Heating and as a...
Marie Darmiento
May 27, 2022
Marie Darmiento of The Bronx, New York, passed away on May 27, 2022. She was 77 years old. Born in 1945 to Nicola and Rosaria Cinquina, she was one of 6 children. Marie graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School, and went on to marry the love of her life, her husband, Rocco Darmiento. The couple resided in The Bronx, where they raised their two children, Anthony and Nicholas. Marie and Rocco were...