Obituaries

Dec 16, 2010

Bette P. Lund, 89, a long-time resident of Hopewell Junction, died on Thursday, December 16, 2010 in Mount Morris, New York. Born in Manchester, CT on February 18, 1921, she was the daughter of Russel J. and Helen Sherman Paul. She was an Army Nurse during World War II, serving in the 9th Evacuation Hospital in North Africa, Italy, France,...

Dec 15, 2010

James Raymond Kelly, 54, a Dutchess County resident since 1982, formerly of Yonkers, died at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie on Wednesday, December 15, 2010 after a 7-year, courageous battle with larynx cancer. He was born in Yonkers on January 14, 1956 to Lester Kelly and Angela Molitor. In 2003, James retired as a safety engineer for Metro North...

Dec 14, 2010

Lodi Penna, 94, a resident of Hopewell Junction since 1985 and formerly of the Bronx, died on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. Born in the Bronx on August 1, 1916, he was the son of Ferdinand and Antonia Esposito Penna. He served in the US Army during World War II and was employed as a butcher...

Dec 14, 2010

Patrick Jeffrey Ganley, 54, a resident of Dutchess County for 30 years and formerly of Queens, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. Born in Manhasset on March 26, 1956, he was the son of Thomas and Alyce Olsen Ganley. He has been employed by Con Edison for the last 31 years. Patrick was an...

Dec 14, 2010

Shirley Naiztat Sannasardo, 81, a lifelong resident of New York City, died on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. Born in New York City on November 30, 1929, she was the daughter of David and Anna Weiss Naiztat. She had been employed as a bookkeeper for Chilean Airlines at the World Trade Center. On January 3, 1948...

Dec 13, 2010

Rose B. Davis, 78, an area resident since 1954 and formerly of Yonkers, died on Monday, December 13, 2010 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie. Born in Hartford, CT on August 19, 1932, she was the daughter of Louis and Margaret DiBernardi. She was employed in the Finance Department for IBM in East Fishkill. Rose was a parishioner of...

Dec 12, 2010

Mary Garofalo, 97, a resident of LaGrangeville since 1966 and formerly of Scarsdale, died on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at the Lutheran Care Center. Born in Chicago, IL on September 1, 1913, she was the daughter of Fausto and Anna Cassiani Berardinelli. She was employed as a designer in the Garment District. Mary was a parishioner of St. Denis Church...

Dec 9, 2010

Philip Tempesta, Jr., 79, a resident of Fishkill since 2002 and formerly of Long Island City, died on Thursday, December 9, 2010 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. Born in Manhattan on January 14, 1931, he was the son of Philip and Antoinette Otto Tempesta. For many years, he was a self-employed cab driver and then he worked for the Marine...

Dec 9, 2010

Martin Charles Graf, 81, a lifelong resident of Queens, died on Thursday, December 9, 2010 at Lutheran Care Center in Poughkeepsie. Born in Astoria on February 19, 1929, he was the son of Martin Graf and Marion (Kurt) Hatrick. A fan of the New York Yankees, he was fond of telling the story of playing baseball in the neighborhood with...

Dec 6, 2010

Josephine DelGado, 75, an Orange County resident since 2000, formerly of St. Croix and the Bronx, died on Monday, December 6, 2010 at Orange Regional Medical Center, Arden Hill Campus, in Goshen. She was in the education industry for 32 years, and taught at Christian Academy in St. Croix. She was also a member of the Pentecostal Church of St....

Nov 28, 2010

Amanda Lee Jones, 11, a resident of Hopewell Junction since 1999, died on Sunday, November 28, 2010 at Maria Fareri Children's Hospital due to complications associated with Leukemia. Born in Paterson, NJ on July 15, 1999, she was the daughter of Brian and Zuleyka Jones. She was a sixth grade student at Van Wyck Junior High School, a Girl Scout...

Nov 26, 2010

Patrick Joseph McVeigh, 80, a Wappingers Falls resident since 1983, formerly of Yorktown Heights and Levittown, died on Friday, November 26, 2010 surrounded by his family at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie. For 25 years, Patrick served as a Police Officer having worked in Nassau County and the Town of New Castle, where he reached the rank of Detective,...

Nov 25, 2010

Jeffrey Vincent Di Muria, 57, a resident of the Town of East Fishkill for 23 years, formerly of Monroe and Brooklyn, died suddenly on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie. He worked as an Administrator of Information Technology for U.P.S. in Mahwah, NJ for nearly 20 years, and had previously been employed by PanAm. He...

Nov 23, 2010

Ronald Frank Gurecki, 64, a resident of the Town of East Fishkill since 1981, formerly of Queens Village and Greenpoint, Brooklyn, died at home on Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Born in Brooklyn on July 5, 1946, he was the son of the late Charles and Jean Pankowski Gurecki. In 1966, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served his country...

Nov 21, 2010

Laszlo I. Kiss, 74, a resident of Stormville for 30 years and formerly of the Bronx, died on Sunday, November 21, 2010 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. Born in Hungary on July 2, 1936, he was the son of Steven and Erma Nyari Kiss. He was employed as an assembler for General Motors in Tarrytown for 32 years until his...

Nov 20, 2010

Nov 20, 2010

Edna Katherine Rosenlund, 94, a resident of Hopewell Junction since 1955 and formerly of Brooklyn, died on Saturday, November 20, 2010 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. Born in Brooklyn in November of 1915, sh was the daughter of Finnish immigrants. She was employed as a teller for the Marine Midland Bank in Hopewell Junctin for 10 years. On July 27,...

Nov 16, 2010

Nov 15, 2010

Anton Gruber, 83, a resident of the Town of East Fishkill, died at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie on Monday, November 15, 2010. Born in Krndja, Yugoslavia on December 5, 1926, he was the son of the late Franz and Anna Riegl Gruber. In 1951, he emigrated to the United States with his wife and young family aboard the...

Nov 15, 2010

Mary Ellen Chambers, a long time Hudson Valley resident and current resident of Naples, Florida died November 15, 2010 at Naples Community Hospital. She was 70. Born in Poughkeepsie, NY, on September 7, 1940 to Poughkeepsie trial lawyer John J. Mulvey and pre-school teacher Margaret McCann Mulvey, Mary Ellen attended and graduated from St. Mary's School (Poughkeepsie) and Arlington High...