Margaret Tuminaro

Margaret (Mardi) Tuminaro (née Hartman), age 83, of Red Hook, New York, passed away in Hudson, New York, on August 8, 2026. She was born in Buffalo, New York, to Fordyce Hartman and Cecelia Patricia Hennigan, on August 8, 1943. She was a graduate of Kenmore West High School (1961), Cornell University (B.S. 1965), and Teachers College at Columbia University (M.Ed.). She taught high school science and math in New York City public schools and retired after teaching for many years at Central Park East Secondary School in East Harlem.

Because she retired from a union job that compensated her with an excellent pension and retiree healthcare, she was able to pursue her many hobbies and cultivate new talents during retirement, including, playing traditional Irish music, gardening, making wine with her own grapes, tapping her maple trees and making maple syrup, brewing beer and kombucha, sheep herding, spinning and weaving wool, spending time with family and friends, and caring for her many animals.

She is survived by her husband, Dominick (Dom) Tuminaro, her daughter, Amelia Tuminaro-Berlin, her grandchildren, Matthew and Jonathan Berlin, her son-in-law Michael Berlin, her brothers Richard Hartman, James Hartman, and William Hartman, her sister Nancy Hartman, and nieces and nephews, Julie, Meredith, Morgan, Mac, Libby, Sarah, Leah, Lori, Craig, Sari, Jed, and Hale. She was pre-decreased by her son, Mark Tuminaro.

Memorial donations may be made to the Center for Constitutional Rights , the Parkinson's Foundation or the Irish Arts Center, three of many worthwhile organizations she supported during her life.

A celebration of life will be held at Riverside Memorial Chapel, on Saturday, September 19, 2026, at 1pm, located at 180 West 76th street, NY, NY (corner of Amsterdam Avenue).