Staten Island couple, married 64 years, test positive for coronavirus; die 4 days apart
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. They met on a company-sponsored fishing trip in 1955.
Louis “Lou” Maiello felt honored to drive the former Nancy Kraft home from the fishing adventure sponsored by Rockefeller Center, where she worked as an executive assistant and he was doing construction. It wasn’t long before the couple started dating. A year later they tied the knot on June 16, 1956.
“They lived in the Bronx for a couple of years; then they moved to Staten Island. I remember my dad used to take us down to watch them build the [Verrazzano-Narrows] bridge,” said Barbara Ruggiero, their daughter.
Keep moving forward | Fontones
It s happened: 2020 is finally over.
I m sure I m not alone in feeling as though I ve aged an additional five years just over the last 10 months. I thought taking on the role as editor of this paper in 2018 would be difficult enough boy, was I mistaken.
I remember early on in 2020, penning an editorial titled: You’re more likely to encounter this disease in the Poconos than coronavirus. As you, our readers, likely know, I ate my words shortly after as the phenomena known as COVID-19 inched closer and closer to us here in Monroe County.
I had been planning a business trip to New York City the first week of March. I was supposed to head to USA TODAY s NYC office, and I d likely be hitting up old haunts (if they were still around) in St. Mark s Place for lunch.
2020 provides food for thought this Kwanzaa in the Poconos
Kwanzaa, the celebration that began on Saturday and ends on Jan. 1, is a Swahili word meaning “first fruit,” a reference to the annual harvest in Africa.
It surfaced in the U.S. after the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles and sent a positive message touching on race, African-American culture, unity, family and community.
This year s celebrations will be unlike any other. In homes across the Poconos, Kwanzaa will be celebrated in Zoom meetings and small gatherings.
There weren t 100-plus people jammed into the Hughes Library on Saturday. Instead, people logged on to Zoom for an hour of Kwanzaa, said Ceo Jarvis, better known as “Kwanzaa Mama.”