Raymond Marabello

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Raymond Marabello, 90, of Great Kills, a retired IRS accountant, World War II veteran and family man who loved tennis, died Sunday in Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center and Home, where he had been a patient for three months.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, he graduated from the former Straubenmuller Textile High School in Manhattan.

Mr. Marabello then enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served during World War II. A signalman, he was stationed aboard the LMS 162 and saw duty in Guam, in the Pacific theater of operations.

He and Marie Roccanova met at a social club in Brooklyn in the early 1950s, and were married in 1955. They moved to Staten Island in 1958, settling in Great Kills.

Mr. Marabello earned his bachelor's degree from Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J., and received his master's degree from Long Island University.

He had a 25-year career as an accountant with the Internal Revenue Service, until retiring in 1980.

Mr. Marabello was an avid tennis player and was on the courts until he was in his 80s. He also enjoyed swimming and was a charter member of the Great Kills Swim Club.

He was fond of traveling with his wife, Marie, and the couple had journeyed to Europe and to Alaska and the Grand Canyon, among other destinations, as well as going on cruises.

Mr. Marabello was an easygoing, calm and patient man, his family said.

Marie, his wife of 47 years, died in 2002.

Surviving are his daughters, Marie Mondello, Madelyn Graves, Anne Marabello and Eloise Fedderson; his brothers, Jerry, Matthew, Eugene and Daniel, and six grandchildren.

The funeral will be Wednesday from the Casey McCallum Rice South Shore Funeral Home, with a Mass at 9:45 a.m. in St. Clare's R.C. Church, both in Great Kills. Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery, Pleasant Plains.