All Obituaries

Benedict T. 'Bene' Catalano, 69 Loving husband, father and grandfather Benedict T. "Bene" Catalano, 69, passed away on Oct. 7, 2019, after a short battle with cancer. Bene was born in Brooklyn. He moved to Staten Island to Shore acres in the late 1970s and then to Huguenot in the 1980s. He served in the Army National Guard during the Vietnam War. Bene was an executive director of disaster recovery for JPMorgan Chase in New York City. He enjoyed coaching his daughters in...

Alice L. Kinelski, 78 Lifelong Staten Islander Alice L. Kinelski, 78, passed away on Sept. 29, 2019. Alice was born and raised in Staten Island and lived in Tottenville. She attended Our Lady Help of Christians School and Tottenville High School. Alice sang in the Our Lady Help of Christians choir. She was a clerk for Chase Manhattan Bank , retiring in 1990. She is survived by her brother, Kenneth M. Kinelski, and sister-in-law, Marilyn; her nephews, Rob, Jack, Stephen, Kevin and Vincent,...

  Louise Maisto DiCostanza, 75, entered into God's care on September 21, 2019, on her 75th birthday, with her family at her bedside.  She was born and raised in Brooklyn,  New York where she spent her childhood and met and married her husband Peter.  Together they moved to Staten Island to raise their family. Then in recent years,  moved to Jackson,  New Jersey as well as Naples,  Florida.  Louise was a school secretary at I. S. 51 and I....

Ann Fitzgerald, born Ann Margaret Alberta Schnurr, passed peacefully in the late hours of September 18, 2019 at the age of 88. The youngest and last surviving of seven children, she was raised by a single mother in Tottenville during the depression. A Staten Island south shore native with three generations preceding and three following her, she was a repository of both family and island history and folklore. She will be remembered by all as compassionate, loving, doting, resilient and...

In lieu of flowers the family of Walter requests