Anne Denise Antilety Of Southampton Dies August 10

Anne Denise Antilety, 83, of Southampton, NY, passed away peacefully at the Kanas Center in Westhampton on August 10. While ultimately losing the fight to cancer, Anne’s display of strength and
determination never waned. She was still going with her friends to play cards, enjoying dinners at the Southampton Golf club, checking her finances, managing her nurses, and worrying about her husband only days and weeks before she passed. Anne was in charge right until the end.

Anne was born on January 27, 1939, to Agnes and Bernard Sullivan in Astoria Queens. While an only child, she had numerous cousins with whom she had a lifetime of memories. She considered all of them to be her sisters.

After moving out to the suburbs with her parents, she graduated from Hempstead High School in 1956. From there, Anne went farther east and attended the nursing school at Southampton Hospital. After graduating from there, she would go on to serve four decades as an RN working in the OB/GYN department at the hospital where she would assist in the birth of generations of local babies. She thought it was the most wonderful place to work.

It was pretty common back then for the nursing school ladies to be courted by the local men. Anne caught the eye of a local guy named William Antilety. After seeing her for the first time, he commented to his friend, “I’m going to marry that girl”. On June 6, 1959, he did just that and they would go on to have a wonderful 63-year marriage filled with family, friends and great times.

Her family was everything to her. Anne was always looking to see the family gathered somewhere to celebrate something, constantly taking pictures to remember the moment, moments that became far too many to count.

She loved being at Coopers Beach with the “beach ladies”, playing cards at the Club and going out with multiple friends for dinner. She considered all of her friends her family.

Winters were spent at her beloved Jupiter Bay Florida home where she and Bill enjoyed over thirty years of friendships and memories. As her Florida friends would visit her in the final weeks, she would always ask “tell me what’s happening at Jupiter Bay”. No place held a more special place in her heart.

Anne is survived by her husband, William Antilety, son, Mark (Suzanne) and their children: Zachary (Maryssa), Alex (Rachel) and Lauren, son, Michael (Faeth) and their children Jacob and Stacey, son-in-law, George (Bud) Wilkinson and his two daughters: Ann Quinn Hill (Scott), and Kate, three great-grandchildren: Riley Hill, William Antilety and Benjamin Antilety, as well as her many cousins. Anne has been reunited with her daughter, Lynn Wilkinson, who predeceased her in 2011.

Visitation will be held on Sunday, August 21, from 4-7pm at the Brockett Funeral Home. A funeral mass will be held on Monday, August 22, at 10:00 am at Sacred Hearts Church in Southampton.

Memorial donations can be made in her name to The Kanas Center of East End Hospice. The family wishes to offer its sincerest thanks to all the family and friends who were there for her, the women who took care of her at home in her last months, as well as the amazing staff at The Kanas Center who aided her end of life in peaceful and comfortable dignity. Your efforts will never be forgotten.