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Laura Ann Prete \u2013 62 \u2013 of 23 Northridge Dr., Arkport, NY, formerly of Hornell, died early Sunday morning (May 9, 2021) at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, following a brief illness.<\/p>\nLaura Ann Prete \u2013 62 \u2013 of 23 Northridge Dr., Arkport, NY, formerly of Hornell, died early Sunday morning (May 9, 2021) at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, following a brief illness.<\/p>\n
Laura was born in Hornell on September 16, 1958, and was the daughter of George & Patricia (Brosnan) Prete.<\/p>\n
Laura grew up in Hornell on the Eastside, where she attended Bryant Elementary School and was a graduate of Hornell High School (class of 1976).\u00a0 She later attended Alfred State College where she earned her Associates Degree in Marketing.<\/p>\n
Shortly after her graduation from college she was hired on as a teacher\u2019s assistant in the Hornell School System working with special needs children. Laura was not a person to stay idle as she also worked part time jobs bartending at the Williams Inn, Ruperts, Knights of Columbus, Johnnie\u2019s Ristorante, among others as well as working for Steuben ARC. It was through her many jobs that Laura developed many, many friendships and is missed by many as evident in facebook posts.<\/p>\n
Laura was a member of Our Lady of the Valley Parish and a communicant of St. Ann\u2019s Church. She had been an active member of the Hornell Woman\u2019s Democratic Party and Carducci Lodge Ladies Auxiliary Sons of Italy.\u00a0 Laura was also a past member of Ladies of Columbus and Catholic Daughters of America.\u00a0 She was a proud American but was equally proud of her Irish\/Italian heritages. Laura\u2019s passions included a nice cup of coffee, listening to Irish music, supporting the Hornell Red Raiders and Penn State Nittany Lions, and was known to enjoy a \u201clittle\u201d shopping as well.<\/p>\n
Although Laura was never blessed with children of her own, she absolutely adored her nieces, nephews, and great-nieces & great-nephews.\u00a0 She was also a loving daughter, fantastic sister and a true & loyal friend!!<\/p>\n
Laura was preceded in death by her fianc\u00e9, Frank Fawcett who died April 21, 2002.<\/p>\n
Surviving are her parents, George & Patricia Prete; two sisters, Barbara (Chris) Maker of Arkport and Georgiann \u201cGigi\u201d Prete of Quincy, MA; one brother, Mark Prete of Arkport; her nieces & nephews, Rosario (Catherine) Prete, Lindsey (Steven) Nichols, Jared (Hannah) Maker, Brianne Maker and Anthony (Mandi Covis) Prete; great-nieces & great-nephews, Amelia Prete, Mason Nichols, Charlotte Nichols and Barrett Maker; along with several aunts, uncles, cousins and the Maker\/Prete family dogs Max and Oliver.<\/p>\n
Family will receive friends on Saturday from 10:00 AM\u00a0 \u2013 11:00 AM at St Ann\u2019s Church, 31 Erie Ave., Hornell, NY.\u00a0 A Memorial Mass will be celebrated at the conclusion of calling hours at 11:00 AM with final interment in St. Mary\u2019s Cemetery.<\/p>\n
Funeral arrangements are in care of the Dagon Funeral Home, 38 Church St., Hornell, NY<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The Memorial Mass for Laura A. Prete will be streamed via YouTube and can be viewed on the Dagon Funeral Home Facebook page on Saturday at 11:00 AM by visiting www.facebook.com\/dagonfuneralhome<\/u>\u00a0\u00a0 The video will remain available for viewing on our Facebook page for 30 days.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Laura\u2019s family request that in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in her name be made to either the Hornell Human Society, 7649 Industrial Park Rd., Hornell, NY 14843 or St. Ann\u2019s Academy, 41 Genesee St., Hornell, NY 14843 or the American Heart Association, PO Box 3049, Syracuse, NY 13220 or the Alzheimer\u2019s Association, 435 East Henrietta Rd., Rochester, NY 14620.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Laura Ann Prete \u2013 62 \u2013 of 23 Northridge Dr., Arkport, NY, formerly of Hornell, died early Sunday morning (May 9, 2021) at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, following a brief illness. Laura was born in Hornell on September 16, 1958, and was the daughter of George & Patricia (Brosnan) Prete. Laura grew up in […]<\/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-4957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957","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=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4959,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dagonfuneralhome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}