March 15, 2011

Gaetana Adorante
Homemaker, 98

Gaetana “Donnie” Adorante, a resident of the Sullivan County Adult Care Center, in Liberty, and former homemaker, died on March 11, 2011, at the Sullivan County Adult Care Center. She was 98.
Born on February 18, 1913, to Gaetano and Maria Giagrande Ciari in Bronx, New York, she was married to Julius Adorante.
Survivors include her daughter, Donna Knack and her husband, Donald, of Jeffersonville; one sister, Lena Deldin, of Queensbury; four grandchildren, Susan Capalbo, Christine Capalbo, Jennifer Green and Kristen Green-Gagliardo; four great-grandchildren Kaitlyn, Lindsey, Dominic and Gianni; one son-in-law Frank Capalbo of Bethel.
She was predeceased by her son, Joseph Adorante, and by her daughter, Palma Capalbo, and by her brothers and sisters.
Graveside services will be held on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at Fairview Cemetery, in Stone Ridge, at 11 a.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Peter’s Regional School, 112 Lincoln Place, Liberty, N.Y. 12754.

William Moskowitz
July 10, 1923- March 13, 2011

William Moskowitz was born in Hungary and survived the Holocaust, despite the loss of much of his immediate family and time in a Nazi work camp. Following the Holocaust, Mr. Moskowitz emigrated to Belgium and eventually moved to Israel, where he joined the Israeli Defense Forces. He fought in the Israeli War for Independence and was wounded in battle. 
He immigrated to the United States in 1952 and married the former Anne Behar, who died in 1997.
William Moskowitz worked as a Concord Hotel waiter from the mid-1950s until the early 60s and again from the mid 70s until the Hotel’s demise. He worked for Fallsburgh paper goods distributor, Zackarans in the late 60s before starting a competing business in the early 70s. He also owned stores in Monticello and Loch Sheldrake during the early 70s. He officially retired in 2005.
He is survived by his second wife, the former Magdalena Hnilicova and a son, Roy Moskowitz of Staten Island, NY.
The funeral will be held Tuesday March 15, 2011 at Garlick funeral home, 388 Broadway Monticello. Shiva will be after the burial at his former home at 82 Liberty Street, Monticello and Wednesday-Friday and Sunday at the home of Roy and Ann Moskowitz, 193 A Rice Avenue, Staten Island.