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Seraphina A. \u201cSarah\u201d Fortuna \u2013 (94) \u2013 a resident of Hornell Gardens, formerly of 36 Sawyer St. Site, Hornell, died Tuesday evening (November 2, 2010) at St. James Mercy Hospital, surrounded by her loving family.\u00a0 She had resided at Hornell Gardens since 1998.<\/p>\n
A native & live resident of Hornell, she was born June 29, 1916, and was the daughter of Dominic & Rose (Girondo) Carretto.<\/p>\n
Sarah attended Bryant School in Hornell and was a member of Our Lady of the Valley Parish and a lifelong communicant of St. Ann\u2019s Church.\u00a0 She was a former member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Sons of Italy.
\nShe was employed for several years as a waitress at the lunch counter of the former Dunn\u2019s Drug Store.\u00a0 She worked many years at Loohns Dry Cleaners and volunteered her time as a \u201cFoster Grandmother\u201d at St. James Mercy Hospital for several years.<\/p>\n
Sarah was married on June 11, 1938 to John J. Fortuna who died June 2, 1991.\u00a0 She was also preceded in death by her son, Gaeton Fortuna; 2 sisters, Ann Constantino and Grace Carretto; 4 brothers, Louis Carretto, James Carretto, Dominic Carretto and Frank Carretto.<\/p>\n
Surviving are 1 son, John (Mary) Fortuna of Canisteo; 1 daughter, Lucy Booth of Eden Prairie, MN; 1 sister, Josephine Carretto of Hornell; 5 grandchildren, Patti (Rich) Clancy of Hornell, Mike Fortuna of Hornell, Don (Renae) Fortuna of Hornell Thomas Booth of Minnesota and Angela Funderburg of Minnesota; 4 great-grandchildren, Patrick Clancy, Natalie Fortuna, Adrianna Fortuna and Kayla Booth; several nieces & nephews.<\/p>\n
At Sarah\u2019s request there will be no calling hours.\u00a0 Family & friends are invited to attend a brief prayer service Wednesday morning at 10:00 AM at the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY.\u00a0\u00a0 A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 AM at St. Ann\u2019s Church with burial in St. Ann\u2019s Cemetery.<\/p>\n
Sarah\u2019s family request that memorial contributions in her name be made to: The Smile Train Fund, PO Box 96208, Washington, DC\u00a0 20090-6208.\u00a0 Memorial forms will be available at the Dagon Funeral Home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seraphina A. \u201cSarah\u201d Fortuna \u2013 (94) \u2013 a resident of Hornell Gardens, formerly of 36 Sawyer St. Site, Hornell, died Tuesday evening (November 2, 2010) at St. James Mercy Hospital, surrounded by her loving family.\u00a0 She had resided at Hornell Gardens since 1998. A native & live resident of Hornell, she was born June 29, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}