Obituaries
Robert Byrne
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...

Alexander Minko
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....

Carmela Corrado
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
Howard Burroughs
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...

Maria Vacca
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...

Pat Scuotto
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...

Salvatore Caravello
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...

Philip Maffie
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...
Nancy Reiss
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....

Nicholas Filimon
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,...

Yolanda D'Angelo
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...
Florence Milo
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....
Erna Fridriksson
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...

James Ferraro
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
Nicholas Bellino
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....
Francis Nagrowski
Jan 26, 2013
fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Francis Nagrowski, 69, formerly of Annadale, died Saturday in St. Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem Pa. Born in Brooklyn's Park Slope section, he attended John Jay High School in the borough. In 1990, he and his wife, the former Carol Kearns, moved across the Narrows. In 2004, the couple relocated to Forks Township, in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley region. Mr....

Marion Sarcone
Jan 25, 2013
fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d Marion R. Sarcone, 66, of Tottenville, a former representative with the Department of Motor Vehicles, died Friday at home. Born Marion Aguiar in Newark, she lived in Brooklyn as a teenager, eventually settling in Tottenville in 1982. Mrs. Sarcone had a 20-year career with the Department of Motor Vehicles, retiring in 2005. She was also a CCD...
James Cameron
Jan 23, 2013
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Services: St. Thomas the Apostle RC Church Saturday, January 26,2013 10:30AM
Visitation: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home Friday, January 25,2013 2-4 & 7-9PM
Cemetery: Cremation Will Be Private
Location: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home
Church: St. Thomas The Apostle RC Church

Alfred Scala
Jan 23, 2013
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Services: Immediate Cremation
Visitation:
Cemetery: Cremation Will Be Private
Location: Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home
Amelia Newborn
Jan 23, 2013
fiogf49gjkf0d fiogf49gjkf0d STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Amelia Potenza-Newborn, 76, of Huguenot, a retired certified nursing assistant, died Wednesday in the Staten Island University Hospital, Prince's Bay. Born Amelia Caso in Salerno, Italy, she arrived in the United States in 1956 aboard the Andrea Doria with her brother after a flood devastated her hometown, killing her parents and another brother....