August 24, 1957-January 26, 2026
Armando Santiago (68) passed away during a winter storm on Jan. 25, 2026 after a 3-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Born on August 24, 1957 in New York City, he moved with his family to Port Jervis, NY when he was 5 years old.
Mondo grew up in Port Jervis with his mother, Carmen Santiago, and siblings Maria Lopez, Neyda Acosta, Sandra Wright, Mike Marcial, Milly Marcial and Pat Marcial. He attended public schools and played on his high school wrestling team, track team, and soccer team.
He loved fishing and working on cars and continued throughout his life. He didn’t have much growing up but had a loving and supportive family.
Mondo started college at Orange County Community College and then transferred to SUNY Binghamton. He moved to Maryland to attend the University of Maryland, College Park and received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in math and was a first generation college graduate. While attending Maryland, he started his banking career at the State Employees Credit Union working up from a teller to assistant branch manager in College Park. From SECU, he worked at several area banks as a mortgage loan officer including Chevy Chase Bank, Capital One, M&T Bank and finishing his nearly 40-year career in banking at MECU in Baltimore. He was passionate about helping low-income people get mortgages to buy their first homes.
In 1993 he married Jean Sheppard and together they raised two children, Bruce Santiago, Gabrielle Santiago and many dogs. Always a hard worker, Mondo also loved spending time with his family, fishing the local streams and rivers, fixing and maintaining the family cars, and cheering on the NY Giants and NY Yankees no matter what kind of record they had. He loved collecting and listening to vinyl records with his son, Bruce.
In spite of living in Maryland most of his life, Mondo always considered himself a New Yorker. He loved visiting his mother, siblings and many nieces and nephews in New York and Pennsylvania and showing his Maryland family all the sites of his hometown and surrounding areas. New York pizza was always the best.
Visitation:
Wednesday February 4 from 2-4 and from 6-8 at
Robert E. Evans Funeral Home, 16000 Annapolis Road, Bowie, Maryland 20715.
Funeral Mass and Celebration of Life:
Thursday February 5 at 11:00 AM at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 1800 Seton Drive, Crofton, MD.21114
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to
The Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research https://lustgarten.org
Hudson Watershed Alliance https://hudsonwatershed.org/donate/
ChesapeakeBayFoundationhttps://www.cbf.org
