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Pauline Gentile, 90, mother of resident
Pauline Gentile, born Lucia Paulina Miluzzo, died on Feb. 24 in Sun Valley, Calif. She was 90 and the mother of Denise Frasca of Lewisboro.
Ms. Gentile was the wife of the late Ralph Mozilo and the late Peter Gentile.
She will be remembered as a devoted employee of the Yonkers Public School District for nearly 30 years, an active participant at the Elks Lodge, a passionate canasta player, an extraordinary cook, and a loyal and loving friend and neighbor, her family said.
In addition to Denise, Ms. Gentile is survived by her children Angelo Mozilo, Ralph Mozilo, Paula Acosta and Lori Mozilo; her sister, Mary Vitolo; brother, Benny Miluzzo; her 28 grandchildren; and her 14 great-grandchildren.
Visiting will be at the Lincoln Park Funeral Home, 625 McLean Avenue in Yonkers, on Friday from 2 to 4, and from 7 to 9 p.m. The service will be held on Saturday at the Church of the Annunciation in Crestwood, with burial immediately following at St. Raymond’s cemetery in the Bronx. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to support Cerebral Palsy via The Elks Lodge No. 2056, 529 Central Park Ave., Scarsdale, NY 10583.
Robert Julian Penney, 75, former resident
Robert Julian Penney died on Thursday, Feb. 7 at the Hilton Head Regional Hospital, on Hilton Head Island, S.C. He was 75.
Mr. Penney was born in Elmira, N.Y., Dec. 1, 1932. He previously lived in South Salem. He was the son of the late Luke Julian and Mary Ellen Kimball Penney.
He was a 1954 graduate of Colgate University and attended Harvard Business School. He was a U.S. Air Force pilot veteran. He was a member of the North Salem Country Club for 34 years and was an avid golfer. Mr. Penney and his wife, Nancy, moved to Hilton Head Island in 2000 and were members of the Bear Creek Golf Club. He was owner of Penney Search Sales Consultants of Westchester and Hilton Head Island.
He was the husband of Nancy for 51 years, father of Marjorie and her husband, Peter Helmes, of New Fairfield, Conn., Robert Jr. and his wife, Sandra, of Flower Mound, Texas, Mimi of Danbury, Conn. and John of Hilton Head Island. He also leaves behind a sister, Ann and her husband, James Ross, of Kingston, R.I.; his grandchildren Sean, Alexandra, Molly, Sarah, Emily and Kirsten; and many nieces and nephews.
A memorial and reception was held at Bear Creek Golf Club in Hilton Head Plantation on Saturday, Feb. 9.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial donations be made to the American Heart Association, MAA Memorials, P.O. Box 5216, Glen Allen, VA 23058-5216.
Sauls Funeral Home of Bluffton, S.C. is assisting the family with their arrangements: saulsfh.com.
Robert Ford Francis Delaney, 81, father of residents
Robert Ford Francis Delaney died on Feb. 7, in Purdys. He was 81, and the father of two Lewisboro residents.
Mr. Delaney was a lifelong resident of New York City. He was an electrician, and an ardent and active member of Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Some of the achievements he was most proud of, came during a sabbatical from being an electrician, when he was director of the Community Action Workshop in Flushing, Queens, where he worked with the elderly and young in his local community providing social services. He was an amateur archeologist digging in construction sites of lower Manhattan as well as the area of Fort Montgomery, N.Y. He donated a collection of local arrowheads and artifacts to the Bear Mountain Museum.
Mr. Delaney’s family said his gregarious and generous heart will be missed by all he touched. He was the husband of the late Lila. Survivors include daughters Kathy Delaney-Donnery of Goldens Bridge and Patti Delaney-Epple of South Salem; three sisters; and eight grand children.
A memorial service will be held at St. John’s Episcopal Church on Spring Street in South Salem on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 11. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Robert Delaney Memorial Fund at St. John’s, P.O. box 394 South Salem, NY 10590.
Alberta Quinn, 93, former resident
Alberta “Miki” Quinn died on Monday, Jan. 28, in Catonsville, Md., of pneumonia. She was 93.
Mrs. Quinn was born on May 19, 1914 in East Arlington, Vt., to Peter Mikitas and Rose Dunducas, who had emigrated from Lithuania.
She was an alumna of the Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing in New York City, worked at the Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital for some years and then served as a pediatric nurse at the Mount Kisco Medical Group until her retirement in 1974.
Ms. Quinn lived in Goldens Bridge with her late husband, Everett Quinn, and their family from 1938 to 1974.
She is survived by her three children, Joyce Nichols of Linthicum, Md., Susan Rohrs of Carlisle, Pa. and David Quinn of Hastings-on-Hudson; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
A quiet soul, she touched the lives of many: her family, her many grateful neighbors and colleagues, and generations of little pediatric patients who always left their fingerprints on her eyeglasses, her family said.
A Requiem Mass will be said on Monday, Feb. 4 at St. Joseph’s Monastery in Catonsville, and interment alongside her husband will follow in Clearwater, Fla. Donations in her memory may be made to the American Heart Association.
Irwin Gonshak, 80, father of resident
Irwin Gonshak died Friday, Jan. 11. He was 80, and the father of Lucretia Ryan of South Salem and grandfather of Sean and Jake Ryan of South Salem.
In addition to his daughter and grandsons, Mr. Gonshak is survived by his wife, Avis Gonshak; a son, Henry Gonshak; and a granddaughter, Becky Gonshak.
Mr. Gonshak was born on April 3, 1927, in Brooklyn, to Aaron and Thelma Gonshak. His parents were Polish Jewish immigrants who came to America at the start of the 20th Century. His father began by pushing a hot-dog stand on the Lower East Side, and, when he retired in middle age, was the owner of two New York clothing stores.
In 1943, Mr. Gonshak graduated at the age of 16 from Jamaica High School in Queens. He enrolled in the School of Agriculture at Cornell University, but left Cornell at 17 to enlist in the Navy. When World War II ended, he was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Station, and was assigned to a troop ship carrying soldiers home from the Far East.
After leaving the military, Mr. Gonshak enrolled in the liberal arts program at Adelphi University. Intent on becoming a writer, he wrote for the college literary magazine and newspaper, for the latter penning a popular weekly column called “Under the Sun, ” for which he won a Newspaper Guild Collegiate Press Award. He graduated with a bachelor of arts from Adelphi in 1949, and earned a master’s degree at Teachers College/Columbia, which qualified him to become a social studies teacher in the New York City public schools. In that capacity, he was appointed chapter chairman for his school’s teachers’ union, and became active in the successful effort to have the union recognized by the city.
While teaching junior high school, Mr. Gonshak began writing radio scripts for a Jewish program on NBC, “The Eternal Light.” He went on to write 41 scripts for the series, which were broadcast live across the country. He later served as script supervisor at WNYE-FM, and wrote hundreds of educational radio dramas that were heard in classrooms around the city.
After his retirement, Mr. Gonshak went on to work as a radio producer for Teachers and Writers Collaborative in Manhattan. He produced two radio series, “Everything Goes'” and “Teacher As Historian” (a program on American history coordinated with the Library of America). The former show, which broadcast creative writing by New Yorkers, was discussed in a Jan. 28, 2001 article by Andrea Higbie, appearing in the Arts Section of The New York Times, titled, “A Friendly Ear for Any and All New York Writers.” Ms. Higbie described “Everything Goes'” as a “stubbornly quirky radio show special ... that champions writers who are unpublished, and often unpublishable, ” along with best-selling writers such as Evan Hunter (also known as Ed McBain) and Lawrence Block, as well as a then-unknown Terry McMillan. The show, Ms. Higbie said, “is a perfect example of radio’s potential to be a democratic medium.”
Mr. Gonshak was also a member of the Writers Guild East for 49 years. As a guild member, he founded the Short Radio Drama Committee, dedicated to returning to the airwaves the radio dramas he had relished as a child. Mr. Gonshak’s quest on behalf of radio drama was discussed in an article in The Wall Street Journal. Before he died he was in the process of organizing a series with the Writers Guild called “College/School Radio Drama Festival ... Coast to Coast, ” which would broadcast short radio dramas written, produced and acted out by college students.
All in all, his family said Mr. Gonshak was a writer, a teacher, a mentor, a colleague, a friend, a husband, a father and a kind, generous man dedicated to making the world a little better place - his favorite motto will live on: “Stay tuned!”
Antonio Russo, 69, of South Salem
Antonio Russo died on Friday, Jan. 18 at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Conn., while surrounded by his family. He was 69.
Mr. Russo had lived in South Salem since 1986. Born in Bovino Foggia, Italy, he was the son of the late Peter and Carmela Marseglia Russo.
He is survived by his wife, Victoria Drago Russo, of South Salem; two sons, Joe and his wife, Andrea Russo, of Stamford, and Frank and his wife, Lisa Russo, of Shelton, Conn.; a brother, Carlo Russo of Guilford, N.H.; three sisters, Maria Hajjar of Stamford, Rita Gianitti of Stamford and Nella Crowell of Guilford; along with five grandchildren, Frankiann, Michael, Anthony Joseph, Joie Nicole and Angelina Victoria Russo. Besides his parents, he was predeceased by his brother, Ralph Russo.
A funeral procession will be leaving the Nicholas F. Cognetta Funeral Home & Crematory on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 10:20 a.m. and then proceed to St. Bridget of Ireland R.C. Church, 278 Strawberry Hill Avenue in Stamford for a Mass of Christian burial at 11 a.m. Interment at Queen of Peace R.C. cemetery in Stamford will be at a later date. Family and friends may call the funeral home Wednesday, Jan. 23 from 4 to 8 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations may be made to Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care, 1029 E. Main St., Stamford, CT 06902.
Richard Perry, 85, formerly of Waccabuc
Richard G. Perry died on Jan. 4 in Kent, Conn. He was 85, a former longtime resident of Waccabuc and member of the Waccabuc Country Club.
He was born on Nov. 17, 1922, to John Prince Hazen Perry and Adele Augustine Lloyd Perry in New York City.
After graduating from Kent School in 1940, Mr. Perry attended Princeton University before leaving to serve in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a carrier pilot, receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross. At the end of the war, Mr. Perry began a career in manufacturing and served as vice president of Gilbert and Bennett in Georgetown, Conn. until his retirement in 1986.
He married
Allene Ferguson Perry on Jan. 11, 1944 and they were married
for 62 years until her death in 2006. He is survived by his brothers, Samuel of Ft. Meyers, Fla., and Edward of Stow, Mass; his daughter, Anne Todd of Kent; his grandchildren, Kathy Todd of Cambridge, Mass. and Richard Todd of Williamsburg, Va.; and a number of beloved nieces and nephews.
In addition to the country club, Mr. Perry was a longtime member of the University Club in New York. After retirement, Mr. Perry returned to school and received a bachelor of arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1992 and then attended Columbia Graduate School. He enjoyed playing golf, tennis, gardening, mountaineering and backpacking.
Memorial services were held on Jan. 12 at St. Joseph’s Chapel at Kent School in Kent and at the Waccabuc Country Club in Waccabuc.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Kent School.
