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Carmela Motto

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Edward J. Croft

Edward J. Croft

- April 14, 2020
Service Date: no services

Edward (John-Ed) Croft, a New York City artist, died from complications of the coronavirus on April 14, 2020, at NY Langone Hospital. Eddie was born on December 24, 1936, in Brooklyn New York to the late Isabelle Taylor Croft and Edward S. Croft. He is survived by his three sons and their wives, Joseph (Lora), John (Jennifer), and Jason Croft; five grandchildren, Danielle, Joseph, Bailey, Shannon, and Grace-Marie; two sisters, Liz Latimer and...

Christopher Grady-Troia

Christopher Grady-Troia

- April 6, 2020
Service Date: no services

Christopher Grady-Troia, 68, of Roosevelt Island in New York City died at home on 6-April 2020 after a yearlong battle with metastatic pancreatic cancer. Mr. Grady-Troia was born in New York City in October 1951. He attended Bergen Catholic High School in New Jersey, and graduated from Fordham University in 1973. He married his college sweetheart, Linda Grady, in May 1976. Mr. Grady-Troia was a lifelong guitar player, member of both the...

Mary Ann Carme Pradl

Mary Ann Carme Pradl

- March 31, 2020
Service Date: no services

Mary Ann (Carme) Pradl, 75, of Brooklyn, N.Y. died on March 31, 2020 after a long illness. She was wife of Gordon M. Pradl who later passed away on April 17, 2020. Mary Ann was born in Greenfield, Mass. on May 10, 1944 and spent some of her early adult years in Colrain, Mass. The second of five children of Alexander and Adeline (Totaro) Carme, both deceased, she graduated with honors from Greenfield High School class of 1962 and the University...

Sara Cox

Sara Cox

- March 30, 2020
Service Date: no services

Loving Mother, Sister, Sara Ellen Cox, currently of NYC, passed away on March 30, 2020. She was 67 years old. She was mother to Jayna River Murphy Cox. She is also survived by her sister, Julie Janiszewski and her brothers and their wives; Ned & Rosalyn Cox, Jack & Mary Ellen Cox, Dennis & Claire Cox. She was the loving aunt of; Ned Cox, Brian Cox (deceased), David Cox, Matthew Cox, Jamie Cox, Michele Rooney, Jodi Valla and Jeff Janiszewski.

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