Joan Parisi

- June 22, 2020
Service Date: June 26, 2020

Louis J. Buffalano

- June 9, 2020
Service Date: private service

Louis J. Buffalano Birth August 3, 1930 Deceased June 9, 2020 My father, Louis J. Buffalano, a Brooklyn boy, was born on August 3, 1930, and passed away peacefully on June 9, 2020. He was the youngest of eight kids and was born to Italian immigrants, Anthony and Lena Buffalano who instilled hard work and discipline to them all. They were all smart and talented and he was proud of his family and heritage. He leaves behind his wife...

Frances Indelicato DiLiberto

- June 6, 2020
Service Date: June 10, 2020

Frances DiLiberto, née Indelicato, best known as "Babe", passed away peacefully in her home on June 6th, 2020. Born on January 21, 1933, Babe was a true New Yorker surrounded by her large Sicilian family in Little Italy. Widow of Sam DiLiberto; Loving mother of Sally, Chetta, and Anthony ; the mother in law to Anthony Capparelli and Diane Leung ; cherished grandmother of Anthony, Simone, Nico, Kayla, Samantha, Marilyn, and Dominic. Devoted...

Lynda Ciolek

June 24, 1952 - May 30, 2020
Service Date: no services

Lynda L. Ciolek, principal of STEORRA Enterprises, passed away in her home on May 30, 2020, just three weeks shy of her 68th birthday. She had been in declining health. Born and raised in Chicago, she was the only child of loving parents, Henry and Pauline Ciolek, who supported and encouraged her emerging vocal talent from an early age. Lynda studied voice and piano at the American Conservatory of Music while attending Aquinas Dominican High...

Carmela Motto

February 25, 1930 - May 30, 2020
Service Date: June 6, 2020

Motto, Carmela, 90, died Saturday, May 30, 2020, at her residence in Manhattan.

Hampson Sisler

- May 25, 2020
Service Date: May 29, 2020

DR. HAMPSON SISLER was an oculoplastic surgeon and an organist and composer who has more than 100 works to his credit, including pieces for organ, chorus, concert band, chamber and symphony orchestra. His works have been premiered in cities all over the world. Sisler began playing in church when he was eleven, and at the age of sixteen was the youngest person ever to be awarded the American Guild of Organists' coveted Fellowship Status. He has...

Frank Wade Greene

- May 19, 2020
Service Date: no services

Frank Edward Wade Greene died at his home in New York City on May 19. He was 87. Greene (who went by Wade) and his late wife, Susanne, lived in Greenwich Village for over 50 years. The son of Melville Hart Greene and Nan Wade Pearson, Greene was born in 1933 in Syracuse, NY, and grew up in New York City. After serving in the Korean War as a military police investigator and graduating from Princeton in 1956, Greene earned a master's degree from...

Joseph Jacob Katz

- May 18, 2020
Service Date: no services

Joseph Jacob Katz of New York City died on Monday, May 18, 2020, due to complications from Alzheimer's disease. Born on June 13, 1935, and raised in West Hartford, Connecticut, Joe was the son of Riva Ellovich and David Katz. He was predeceased by his brother, William. A graduate of the Mount Hermon School and the United States Military Academy at West Point, Joe went on to establish an insurance brokerage firm in Bridgeport and then...

Marjorie R. Hirsch

- May 6, 2020
Service Date: no services

Marjorie Hirsch departed this world on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. She was a woman who lived life on her own terms… An actor, artist, and arts manager, leader, traveler, dancer, writer and playwright, college teacher, lover of great food and wine, a marathon runner into her 50s, gym rat into her 90s, a recent podcast performer, a lover of Paris and an avid New Yorker. All that knew her marveled at what she did and we loved her for what she was:...

Gordon Pradl

- April 17, 2020
Service Date: no services

Gordon Morrell Pradl, a longtime professor of English education at New York University, died from complications of the coronavirus on April 17 at New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y. He was 76 years old. Gordon was born on December 6, 1943, in Montreal, Quebec, and grew up in Morristown, N.J. He graduated from Amherst College in 1965. Influenced by the college's freshman composition curriculum, he devoted his...