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Page 2B Sunday, September 1, 2013 DemocratandChronicle.com Share Your Condolences Sign a guest book, or share memories online at www.democratandchronicle.comlegacy Obituaries 8clnc Wlemoriams Obituaries Abbondanzieri, Grace Ann (Passantino) Irondequoit: August 29, 2013 Age 91. Predeceased by husband Adio, great-grandson Austin James Schmitt and several beloved siblings. Survived by sons daughter-in-law; Louis Angelo (Donna), grandchildren; Louis, Tracy, Chrystle, Jeffrey Gregory, great-grandchildren; Preston, Samuel, Cori, Adam, Dayna, Allison and Zachary; great-great grandson Anthony, brother James Passantino (Stuart, sister-in-law, Joyce Abbondanzieri, cherished nieces, nephews, friends neighbors. Special thanks to everyone at Morgan Estates Assisted Living for their excellent care of Mom for the past 15 months. She felt safe and loved by one and all.

Thanks also to the many nurses, doctors and aides at Highland Hospital on West 5 and East 7 hospice, for their wonderful care during her hospital stays. Calling TUES. 4-8 PM at Falvo Funeral Home, 1395 N. Goodman St. Please join the family 10:30 AM.

WED. at St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Parish Annunciation Church, 1754 Norton St. for her funeral mass. Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to Morgan Estates Activities Fund, 4588 Morgan View Geneseo, NY 1 4454, or Highland Hospital Hospice, 100 South Ave.

Box 40 Rochester, NY 14620. Interment Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. FalvoFuneralHome.com '-JP Vt Goldstein, Stephen Karl Rutland, VT: Stephen Karl Goldstein, 74, passed away Sunday, Au- 1 I jt )y TCTf i gust nuci, at tne Kutiana Meai- i'' cal Center in Rutland, Vermont after a brief illness. Born in Rochester, New York on January 9, 1939 to the late Armand K. and Phyllis E.

Goldstein, he was a graduate of Brighton High School Notices Penfield Schumacher, John August 24, 2013 Jennings, Nulton Mattle Funeral Home Stevens, Janice, August 27, 2013 Jennings Nulton Pittsford Newton, Stella August 26, 2013 New Comer Funeral Home Ormandy, Elaine, August 23, 2013 Rochester Bostick, Carla Rhea, August 27, 2013 Millard E. Latimer Son Funeral Home Evans, Donald, August 31, 2013 Miller Funeral and Cremation Services Krug, Donald, August 25, 2013 Walker Brothers Funeral Home Lawhorn, Norman, August 27, 2013 D.M. Williams Funeral Home, Inc. Numann, Marie Ratterman, Robert, August 29, 2013 Miller Funeral and Cremation Services, Inc. Ruggiero, Audrey August 26, 2013 Bartolomeo Perotto Funeral Home, Inc.

Spuck, Meredith, August 30, 2013 Miller Funeral Cremation Services, Inc. Vandenberghe, Helene, August 28, 2013 New Comer Funeral Home Vullo, Angeline August 15, 2013 Warren, Betty, August 28, 2013 Miller Funeral and Cremation Services, Inc. Williams, Isabel, August 30, 2013 Anthony Funeral Chapels Rutland, VT Goldstein, Stephen August 25, 2013 Savannah, GA O'Heaney, Joseph, August 24, 2013 Fox and Weeks Funeral Home Vero Beach, FL McKallip, Scott William, August 28, 2013 Seawinds Funeral Home Victor McCarthy, Robert G. Esq. August 28, 2013 Lucey-VanVoorhis Funeral Home, Inc.

Walworth Wellman, Clarence G. "Kelly, August 30, 2013 Murphy Funeral Cremation Chapels Waterport Schoeneman, F. Ethyl, August 2, 2013 Christopher Mitchell Funeral Home Webster Barraford, Jane August 31, 2013 Willard H. Scott Funeral Home Burns, Richard August 29, 2013 Tortorici, Alexander August 31, 2013 Rochester Cremation West Henrietta Forward, Shirley August 25, 2013 James R. Gray Funeral Home Morgan, Phylis, August 30, 2013 Miller Funeral And Cremation Services, Inc.

Williamson Marcellus, Ward Jackson, August 29, 2013 Young Funeral Home Area Brighton Ingeborg, Eibl, August 18, 2013 Rogachefsky, Harry, August 30, 2013 Brighton Memorial Chapel, Inc. Somers, David August 27, 2013 Anthony Funeral Cremation Chapels Brockport Jamele, John Louis, August 30, 2013 Fowler Funeral Home Brockport Rigg, Lilian, August 7, 2013 Cape Coral, FL Masseth, James August 22, 2013 Chili Ackerman, Christine, August 30, 2013 Rochester Cremation Dallas, OR Doll, George August 24, 2013 Dundee Eyer, Dr. James August 25, 2013 Baird Funeral Home Edgewater, FL Mura, Edward August 29, 2013 Willard H. Scott Funeral Home Geneseo Douglass, Maryanne August 28, 2013 Rector-Hicks Funeral Home Gifford, Mary Jane, August 23, 2013 Kevin W. Dougherty Funeral Home, Inc.

Greece Barbato, Marie, August 31, 2013 Vay-Schleich Meeson Funeral Home McElwain, Robert August 27, 2013 New Comer Funeral Home Sieczkarski, Mary August 21, 2013 Vay-Schleich Meeson Funeral Home Groveland Moore, Rachel, August 30, 2013 Rector-Hicks Funeral Home Henrietta McCormick, John, August 31, 2013 Miller Funeral And Cremation Services, Inc. Hilton Harris, David August 29, 2013 Thomas E. Burger Funeral Home Inc. Irondequoit Abbondanzieri, Grace Ann (Passantino) August 29, 2013 Falvo Funeral Home Primo, Santina, August 30, 2013 Dierna Funeral Home Russo, Fina, August 29, 2013 Dierna Funeral Home Spinelli, Sam August 30, 2013 Dierna Funeral Home Lahaina, HI Gleave, Rita Ann, August 27, 2013 Land O' Lakes, FL Fleming, Robert John August 29, 2013 Loyless Funeral Home Livonia Reinhart, Linda August 30, 2013 Kevin W. Dougherty Funeral Home and the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.

He served in the United States Coast Guard. After college Goldstein managed the Downtowner Motor Inn in Rochester. He later was employed by Pillsbury's Burger King Unit, becoming a Regional Director. He and a partner subsequently became franchisees and successfully owned and operated several stores in the Baltimore-Eastern Shore Region. He was an avid sailor and member of the Annapolis Yacht Club and enjoyed participating in the Annapolis-Bermuda Race.

As a private pilot he flew recreationally domestically and to Europe. Goldstein and his wife Barbara moved to Killington, Vermont in 1988. Reflecting his passion for skiing and snowboarding, he was an instructor at the Killington Ski Resort for over twenty years. In the past year he had taken up golf with an equal passion. He was very involved with the Kill-ington-Pico Rotary Club, serving a term as President.

For several years he was Chairman of the Club's Inbound Student Youth Exchange Program for his District, which included Southern Vermont and New Hampshire. He and his wife hosted ten exchange students over the years and relished visiting those students in their home countries. Goldstein is survived by: his wife of thirty-four years, Barbara; daughter Lois Goldstein, Annapolis, MD; son Karl Goldstein, Voorhees, NJ; stepson Nicholas Schlegel, Fruitland, MD; five grandchildren Lauren Tan-man, Alex Tanman, Jared Goldstein, Ryan Schlegel, Nicole Schlegel; and two sisters Randi G. Ferguson (James), Estero, FL and Nancy C. Domic (Alain), Nice, France.

A memorial service will be held at a later date. Arrangements are by Clifford Funeral Home, Rutland, Vermont. In lieu of flowers the family suggests that memorial contributions be made to the Killington-Pico Rotary Club, P.O. Box 146, Killington, Vermont 05751 McCarthy, Robert G. Esq.

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Sun. and Holidays 10am 2pm. Victor: Robert G. McCarthy passed away, Wednesday evening, August 28, 2013, at age 40. A loving husband and father, Robert is survived by his wife, Catherine Ann (Murphy); son, Sean McGarr and daughter, Bridgid Saoirse; his parents, Jim and Polly McCarthy; brothers, Jim (Karen) and Dan (Samantha) Mc Spinelli, Sam F.

Ratterman, Robert Anthony Irondequoit: August 30, 2013, at age 84. Predeceased by his son-in-law, David Serenati; beloved husband of 59 years, Josephine; loving father of Judy (Alan) Dickinson, Lisa Spinelli and Suzanna (Roy) Youngs; grandfather of Aaron, Jeff, Ryan and Emma. Sam was a member of the Annunciation Senior Group and an Army Veteran of The Korean Conflict. Rochester: At age 64 died in his sleep Thursday August 29, 2013. The son of Grace Porvenzalle Ratterman and Herman Ratterman and is survived by his loving sister Janet Gebhardt of North Carolina and his son Dennis Christopher Ratterman of NY.

He was a navy veteran and ZtTw Carthy. He is predeceased by infant brother and sister, Patrick and Meghan McCarthy. He is also survived by his in-laws, Fran and Monica Murphy; sisters-in-law, Maureen and Molly Murphy; four nephews and one niece. Robert was born August 28, 1 973 in Rochester, NY. Robert received a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York College at Oswego, a Master of Arts from the University of Rochester, and a Juris Doctorate from St.

John's University School of Law. Focusing on labor and employee benefits, Robert was employed by Chamberlain D'Amanda in Rochester, NY. Robert served on several professional associations and received Up and Coming Attorney of 2013. Robert used his mediation skills to develop a large network of family and friends, in spite of his avid love of the Dallas Cowboys and Notre Dame. His zealous passion for football mirrored his character: unflinchingly loyal and eternally optimistic.

Those who knew him loved him unconditionally. Friends may call Tuesday 3-7 at Lucey-VanVoorhis Funeral Home, 301 West Main Street, Victor. Robert's Funeral Mass will be celebrated Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock at St. Patrick's Church, Victor. Interment, St.

Patrick's Cemetery. Gifts in his memory may be directed to the ESLRobert McCarthy Memorial Fund, PO Box 361 Victor, NY 14564. www.Lucevvanvoorhisfuneralhome.com Friends may call SUNDAY (TODAY) 2-6PM at the Dierna Funeral Home, 2309 Culver Rd. (Near Norton). His Funeral Mass will be celebrated TUESDAY 1 1 Peace of Christ Parish at St.

Ambrose Church. Entombment Irondequoit Cemetery. worked IRS in Customer Service Quality Assurance in Jacksonville Florida. He survived a brain aneurysm in 2004 causing him to relocate back to Rochester in 2005. Robert attended the Hickok Center for Traumatic Brain Injury and truly enjoyed and benefited from their day program and loved them dearly.

Robert's cause of death was COPD (emphysema) unrelated to his Brain Injury. Robert's Funeral Mass will be at St. Boniface Catholic Church 330 Gregory Street Rochester NY (near South Avenue) TUESDAY at 9:30 AM with burial to follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in the Veterans Section. All are welcome. Robert asked that instead of flowers you make a donation to the Hickok Center for Traumatic Brain Injury www.hickok-center.org We will miss our friend and we love him.

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Gregory Thomas Sullivan Lana Polvino Sullivan THOMAS FUNERAL CHAPELS, inc 4545 Lake Avenue (In Charlotte) Friends may call MONDAY 4-8PM ell, MA and a Navy WAVE in WWII, Helene was a loving wife to Peter Sokolsky for 32 years and George Vandenberghe for 20. After raising her children in Rochester and retiring from DePaul Mental Health, for many years she split her time between Clearwater FL and Kennebunk-port ME; more recently residing in Henrietta NY when not in FL. Helene was the epitome of lovable and had a way of making everyone she met feel good about themselves. She was polite in the best possible way and kind without being self-deprecating which charmed everyone even TSA agents! Always trying to do her best in any situation and open to new experiences, Helene was the ultimate "good sport" even when she wasn't playing bocce! Blue skies with white fluffy clouds and trees with straight trunks delighted Helene, who knew the value of simple pleasures. Devoted wife, loving mothergrandmother, cherished aunt and treasured friend, Helene will be missed by all whose lives she touched.

The family will receive friends Tuesday September 3rd from 4-7 PM at the New Comer Funeral Home, 6 Empire Blvd. Rochester. Helene's funeral Mass will be held at 12:00 PM on Wednesday, September 4th at St. Ann's Chapel, 1500 Portland Ave, Rochester. Interment to follow at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.

If you wish to make a donation in Helene's name, please consider the incomparable Henrietta Senior Center, 515 Calkins Rd, Rochester, NY 14623 or the Leo Center for Caring (VNS Hospice) at St. Ann's. To share a memory please visit: www.Nawcomeiftoctiester.com I at the Dierna Funeral Home, 2309 663-3837 www.thomasfuneralchapels.com VISA Culver Rd. (Near Norton). Her Funeral Mass will be celebrated TUES.

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