STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In remembrance of those who have died, here is a roundup of obituaries posted on SILive.com. Viewing times and guestbooks can be found here.
Math professor, educational innovator, inspiring teacher, and director of the Teacher Education Honors Academy (“TEHA” or, more popularly, the “Teacher Academy”) at the College of Staten Island, Jane Coffee died on September 23, 2022 of cancer. She leaves behind her husband, John C. Coffee (“Jack”), a law professor at Columbia University Law School, and her daughter, Megan Purcell Coffee, a medical doctor and researcher specializing in infectious disease. Born in 1944, Jane Coffee was the daughter of James Purcell and Margaret Donovan Purcell; she grew up in Meriden, Connecticut, was valedictorian at Orville H. Platt High School, and won a scholarship to Smith College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in mathematics. On graduation from Penn in 1970, she began a 52-year marriage to Jack and joined the faculty of the College of Staten Island (“CSI”), the CUNY college on Staten Island. Eventually, she would serve as the Chair of its Mathematics Department for over a decade, while also winning that school’s “Best Teacher Award.” Read the full obit on SILive.
YESTERDAY’S OBITUARIES
Anna “Nancy” Miceli, formally known as Nancy Ashmore, passed away on Sept. 24, 2022. Anna was a native Staten Islander. She lived on Staten Island all of her life and attended McKee High School and Dorothy Kane Business School in Manhattan. She worked as a switchboard inspector. She left her job to raise her three children and later, returned back to work for Dr. Anthony Miceli for 10 years. Anna loved to spend her winters at her home in West Palm Beach, Florida. Read the full obit on SILive.
Richard A. Santo, 91, of Staten Island, formerly of Midwood Brooklyn and Upper Black Eddy, PA., passed away on Sept. 25, 2022. Born in Brooklyn, son of Louis and Virginia Santo. he graduated from Grover Cleveland High School in 1949. A recipient of the John Phillip Sousa award in music, he played tenor and alto saxophone and clarinet in grammar school and high school and was chosen along with his high school band to play at Carnegie Hall. Richard worked briefly in 1950 for Leonard Surgical and then, since 1951, for Mayflower Medical Supplies, where he became sole owner in 1968 and retired in 2002. Read the full obit on SILive.
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