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Rita Marie Pinchiaroli of Southampton died on December 4, 2018. She was 94.
Born on February 5, 1924, in Manhattan to Giovanni and Albina Baducci, she attended PS 59 in Manhattan before graduating from the Manhattan High School of Women’s Garment Trades in 1942. She supported the war effort during World War II, first by sewing elements of soldier’s uniforms and then she began working at the Army Pictorial Center in Queens as a film editor. She initially applied for the job when she heard the government was looking for cutters—thinking they were looking for someone with garment experience. She excelled at the job and only left when it was time to start a family in 1947. She returned to the Center as film inspector during the Vietnam War.
She met Dominick Pinchiaroli in the early 1940s and they married in July 1946. Having planned for a February wedding that was ultimately postponed due to her soon-to-be mother-in-law breaking a leg, she was married in a long-sleeved dress in the summer heat, a fact she would lovingly lament for seven decades.
The couple moved to Queens in 1951, where they remained most of their lives, raising two children, Dona and John.
She enjoyed cooking, was a voracious reader, and loved to laugh. Survivors said she adored her family.
Ms. Pinchiaroli moved to Southampton in 2007 to be closer to her daughter and son-in-law, Dona and Joseph Burrascano.
She is survived by her two children, five grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband, Dominick, in 1988; and a grandson, Robert, in 1972.
She was interred at Calvary Cemetery in Queens on December 6.
on Dec 10, 2018