Obituary of Stella Caporale

September 5, 2021

Stella Miriam Babushkin Caporale's lifelong devotion to Public Health was exemplified this year by her frequently expressed frustration (at age 99) that, after decades fighting infectious diseases from polio to TB, her now stiff fingers prevented her from answering the call for retired nurses to help administer vaccines to protect against SARS-CoV2.

BS-RN 1943 from Bellevue School of Nursing and Teachers' College Columbia in Public Health; long career with the New York Department of Health, including as a Visiting Nurse (climbing across rooftops on the Lower East Side), a school nurse, and in clinics in Ocean Hill-Brownsville.

Welcoming, insightful, keen intellect, devoted, generous, compassionate, perceptive, calming, deeply empathetic, could never understand why a person would harm another person. "I'm the richest girl on earth with my family, my home and my memories".

Mom: you gave us and the world 99 years, yet we kept pleading for more.

Rest in Peace with Dad.

Stella Caporale 4/28/22-9/5/21

A memorial video can be viewed at the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge4Tp4MngNE

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