Antoinette D. Angelo, formerly of North Haven, dies February 8 at the Westhampton Care Center. She was 92 and most recently a resident of Islandia.
Born Antoinette LeoGrande on March 9, 1922, in Brooklyn to immigrant parents, she was raised in New Hyde Park. The eldest of six children, her father, Dominic, died when she was 16, leaving her the family’s primary breadwinner. She graduated Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park and began work as a clerk on Wall Street. When the U.S. entered World War II, she decided to join the ranks of the many young women who worked in the nation’s defense plants as riveters. She worked throughout the war at the Grumman plant in Bethpage, building aircraft for the Navy.
During the war, she met her future husband Paul D’Angelo, who she married in 1946. The couple settled in New Hyde Park where they raised two sons. She was a typical suburban housewife of the 1950s/60s, survivors said, and well known within her community for her skill at sewing, craftword and baking. She also taught sewing for the Singer company and worked many years as a bookkeeper at Arco Electronics of Great Neck.
In the mid-1970s, the D’Angelo family moved to the East End, taking over the Emporium Hardware store on Main Street in Sag Harbor where she worked as a bookkeeper into the late 1980s, when she retired. She and her husband had built a home on Coves End Lane in North Haven.
After their retirement, Ms. D’Angelo and her husband enjoyed winters in Pompano Beach, Florida, and summers in their North Haven home, entertaining family and friends. Survivors said, Ms. D’Angelo thought there was no better place to spend their golden years than Sag Harbor where they had so many friends.
Active in the community, she was a member of the Sag Harbor Ladies Village Improvement Society and a parishoner at St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church. Predeceased by her husband, she is survived by three sisters, Josephine of Noyac, Rose of Southampton, Margaret of Manorville; two brothers, Joseph of Huntington and Michael of Plainview; two sons, Frank of Southampton and Dennis of Pennsylvania; seven grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Visitation was February 11 at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor. A funeral Mass was held on February 12 at St. Andrew’s Church, followed by burial at Calverton National Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to East End Hospice, Box 1048, Westhampton Beach, NY 11978.
on Feb 23, 2015