Obituaries

PORT CHESTER, N.Y. -- Eric Lundell, a native and long time resident of the Port Chester-Rye area, died June 3 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He was 91.

Mr. Lundell is survived by five sons, Allan, Wayne, Norman, ...

RYE, N.Y. - Howard Bratches of Rye died Sunday, May 19. He was 83.

Bratches was born June 1, 1929, in Hammond, Ind., son of Howard and Helen Bratches. He attended White Plains High School and graduated from Washington & Lee University School of Law in 1953. He worked at Shell Oil as a personnel/labor relations lawyer, General Foods as a human resources manager and ...

RYE BROOK, N.Y. - Marie "Babe" Malpelli, a resident of Rye Brook died May 16. She was 80.

Malpelli was born April 5, 1933, in Port Chester to Augustine and Anna Mase DeLago. She graduated from Port Chester High School. She was a retired administrative assistant and for many years worked for ITT Continental Baking Company in Harrison and then worked for Nynex. ...

RYE BROOK, N.Y. - Carl Bencivenga, a resident of Rye Brook died May 12. He was  77.

Bencivenga was born March 13, 1936, to Joseph and Anna Silvestro Bencivenga. He was raised and educated in Mount Vernon. He was a self-employed courier.

Bencivenga is survived by his daughters, Linda Olivia of Mamaroneck and Carla Fitzgerald (Frank) of Brewster; five ...

RYE BROOK, N.Y. - Louis Dominick Piccolo, a resident of Rye Brook died May 2. He was  41.

Piccolo was born Oct. 20, 1971, in the Bronx to Dominick and Brenda Marciano Piccolo. He was raised and educated in Yonkers attending PS #29. He was a member of the Boy Scouts and participated in the Special Olympics. He attended the Cerebral Palsy of Westchester in Rye Brook ...

RYE, N.Y. - Timothy Patrick Murphy, longtime resident of Rye died April 27. He was 85.

Murphy was born March 11, 1928, in New York City, son of Philip Murphy and Margaret Collins Murphy. He attended Power Memorial High School and was a graduate of Manhattan College class of '52. Following college, he earned his public accounting certification and began his career as ...

RYE, N.Y. - Anne R. Lavan of Rye, formerly of Farmingdale, died April 16. She was 80.

Lavan was born in the Belle Harbor section of Queens, to Thomas and Mary McCabe. She studied at Fordham ...

RYE, N.Y. - Nicholas Constantine Raho of Rye and Watch Hill, R.I., died April 6. He was 92.

Raho was born Nov. 25, 1920, in New York City. He graduated from CCNY and started a business, Legion Chemicals, that became White Cross Laboratories, Inc., an international chemical and pharmaceutical trading company.

After his marriage he resided in Scarsdale with his ...

OSSINING, N.Y. - Frank E. Sniadack, a resident of Ossining, and formerly of Rye Brook, died March 30. He was 63.

Sniadack was born May 1, 1949, in New Britain, Conn., to Frank Sniadack and Ruth Houghton Sniadack. He graduated from Archbishop Stepinac High School in 1967. He was a chef for the Eurest Corporation at I.B.M. in Armonk, N.Y. He was a parishioner of the ...