Louise R Binetti

She was born Louise Cuomo in Brooklyn and graduated from the former Girls Commercial High School there.

Mrs. Binetti worked as a school crossing guard at PS 142 in Brooklyn for 10 years, retiring in 1990.

She moved to Great Kills about 25 years ago and to Prince's Bay in 2004.

Mrs. Binetti loved traveling with her family to Florida, the Caribbean, Las Vegas, and the Jersey Shore.

She enjoyed playing bingo with her friends, shopping, watching "The Price Is Right," and attending New York Met games with her family.

"She loved to talk. She was very outgoing and friendly." said her daughter, Lucille DeFeo.

Mrs. Binetti especially enjoyed time spent with her family, and spoiling her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, including twin girls born two months ago.

Her husband of 33 years, Thomas Sr., died in 1980.

Along with her daughter, Lucille, surviving are her sons, Thomas Jr. and Julius; two sisters, Helen Trapani and Georgia Serrapica; 11 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be Monday from the Casey McCallum Rice South Shore Funeral Home, with a mass at 11 a.m. in St. Clare's R.C. Church, both Great Kills. Burial will follow in St. John's Cemetery, Queens.