STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Longtime Eltingville resident Dorothy Orletti, 92, a retired office manager who will be remembered for her sense of humor and self-reliance, died Jan. 29 in Staten Island University Hospital, Prince's Bay.
Born Dorothy Dwyer in the Bronx, she graduated from Julia Richman High School in Manhattan. She had lived in Eltingville since 1961.
Mrs. Orletti worked as an office manager for 44 years at American Home Insurance Co., Manhattan. She retired in 1986.
She was a member of the New Dorp AARP, Tottenville Friendship Club, and the Sons of Norway.
Mrs. Orletti enjoyed knitting, crocheting, reading and traveling.
She was a loyal friend and will be missed by all who knew her, family said.
Mrs. Orletti was a parishioner of St. Clare's R.C. Church, Great Kills. She was a member of the parish's Crafty Ladies, and a child-care grandmother at St. Clare's School.
Her husband of 49 years, John, died in 1998.
The funeral will be Monday from the Casey McCallum Rice South Shore Funeral Home, Great Kills, with a mass at 11 a.m. in St. Clare's Church. Entombment will follow in Resurrection Cemetery, Pleasant Plains.
