Obituaries
James Lonigro Obituary
- May 27, 2020
"James Lonigro was a talented and fearless actor and a gifted producer. Everybody I know (including myself) who worked at the priscilla beach theatre in the summer left there smarter and better and determined to live a life in the theatre. He and Roseanne Weeks were formidable and inspiring leaders. He was a true man of theatre." -Andre Bishop James Lonigro aka Geronimo Sands was born December 23r
Dr. Hampson Sisler Obituary
- May 25, 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
Frank Wade Greene Obituary
- May 19, 2020
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 Princet
Joseph Jacob Katz Obituary
- May 18, 2020
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 insura
Marjorie R. Hirsch Obituary
- May 6, 2020
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
Gordon Pradl Obituary
- April 17, 2020
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 fresh
Edward J. Croft Obituary
- April 14, 2020
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, Shann
Christopher Grady-Troia Obituary
- April 6, 2020
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
Mary Ann Carme Pradl Obituary
- March 31, 2020
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 Greenfie
Sara Cox Obituary
- March 30, 2020
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, Mic