She was a force of nature who always spoke her mind, worried incessantly about her family, and left this world the way she lived in it—in her own way.
She knew what she liked and she set high standards. She had very particular preferences in cheeses, tomatoes, and bread, and she didn’t care who knew it. She cooked like an Italian mama even though she was an all-American girl.
She was born in Vermont and passed away in North Carolina, but she was a Bronx native until the end.
She was an independent working woman until she met her future husband Rinaldo. She always said that she immediately fell for the handsome, tanned Italian in the red shirt.
She expected her obituary to mention that she liked to nag, but her daughter prefers to describe it as enthusiastically encouraging people to achieve the goals she had set for them without their knowledge. She was the original mama bear who worried about everyone and everything and always wanted to protect her family.
Her greatest legacy may be the number of people she taught to make meatballs and marinara sauce according to instructions with no precise measurements, just instinct and taste buds. She always cooked for an army, even when there were just three people at the table.
She loved Chinese food, shopping, eating out, giant recliners, playing with babies, and watching NYPD Blue and Law & Order: SVU. She enjoyed reading on her Kindle—but only if the books were free—and late in life became addicted to the computer game Candy Crush. She knew just enough about Facebook, e-mail, and online banking to get her business done, shop online, and keep her daughter busy rebooting her trusty laptop.
She worried about and cared for her family, right up until the very end, in her own Tootie-like way. She is with Rinaldo now, and the two of them surely are presiding over family dinners with the loved ones who went before them.
Her daughter will bid her farewell privately. For those who would like to honor her, please support diabetes research.
Dorothy Juanita Staino (“Tootie”) passed away on July 19, 2018, after a brief, unexpected illness. Her daughter Patricia was by her side.
She was a force of nature who always spoke her mind, worried incessantly about her family, and left this world the way she lived in it—in her own way.
She knew what she liked and she set high standards. She had very particular preferences in cheeses, tomatoes, and bread, and she didn’t care who knew it. She cooked like an Italian mama even though she was an all-American girl.
She was born in Vermont and passed away in North Carolina, but she was a Bronx native until the end.
She was an independent working woman until she met her future husband Rinaldo. She always said that she immediately fell for the handsome, tanned Italian in the red shirt.
She expected her obituary to mention that she liked to nag, but her daughter prefers to describe it as enthusiastically encouraging people to achieve the goals she had set for them without their knowledge. She was the original mama bear who worried about everyone and everything and always wanted to protect her family.
Her greatest legacy may be the number of people she taught to make meatballs and marinara sauce according to instructions with no precise measurements, just instinct and taste buds. She always cooked for an army, even when there were just three people at the table.
She loved Chinese food, shopping, eating out, giant recliners, playing with babies, and watching NYPD Blue and Law & Order: SVU. She enjoyed reading on her Kindle—but only if the books were free—and late in life became addicted to the computer game Candy Crush. She knew just enough about Facebook, e-mail, and online banking to get her business done, shop online, and keep her daughter busy rebooting her trusty laptop.
She worried about and cared for her family, right up until the very end, in her own Tootie-like way. She is with Rinaldo now, and the two of them surely are presiding over family dinners with the loved ones who went before them.
Her daughter will bid her farewell privately. For those who would like to honor her, please support diabetes research.
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