Obituary for Sr. Susan DiDomenicantonio, ICM
Bronx – Sr. Susan DiDomenicantonio, ICM, 89, entered into eternal life on August 12, 2019. Born Paolina Assunta DiDomenicantonio in Watervliet, NY, she was the daughter of the late Emidio and Maria DiDomenicantonio.
Sr. Susan graduated from Watervliet High School as salutatorian of her class. She worked as the executive secretary to the NYS Commissioner of Corrections in Albany for 12 years, following which she entered the convent at the Missionary Canonesses of St. Augustine at their motherhouse, which is now the Sisters of Charity motherhouse. She received her habit in 1962. She then attended Marymount College in New York City, earned her Master’s Degree from Fordham University, and her PhD from Regina Coeli in Rome, Italy. She spent 15 years in Brazil and in Dominica. Once she returned home she was a Pastoral Associate at St. Clare’s Hospital in Schenectady and at St. Peter and Paul Church in Hoboken, NJ.
Sr. Susan is survived by her siblings; Marianne (late Vincent) Poleto of Brunswick, Sr. Grace DiDomenicantonio, CSJP of Seattle, Ann (Thomas) Oathout of Speigletown, and Mario (late Josephine) DiDomenicantonio of Defreestville, her nieces and nephews; Connie Steinbach, Patrick Poleto, Jean Caruso, Mary Poleto, Susan Penicka, Mary K. Lettko, Susan Buscher, Thomas Oathout, Lisa Reed, and Mario DiDomenicantonio, and by several grandnieces and grandnephews, cousins, and her fellow ICM sisters.
A visitation will be held Thursday, August 15, 2019 from 4 until 7 PM at Parker Bros. Memorial Funeral Home, Watervliet. A funeral mass will be celebrated Friday, August 16th at 11 AM at St. Michael the Archangel Church, Troy. Interment will follow in St. Agnes Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Sr. Susan’s memory may be made to the ICM Sisters, Kittay House, 7th Floor, 2550 Webb Ave., Bronx, NY 10468.
Sr. Susan graduated from Watervliet High School as salutatorian of her class. She worked as the executive secretary to the NYS Commissioner of Corrections in Albany for 12 years, following which she entered the convent at the Missionary Canonesses of St. Augustine at their motherhouse, which is now the Sisters of Charity motherhouse. She received her habit in 1962. She then attended Marymount College in New York City, earned her Master’s Degree from Fordham University, and her PhD from Regina Coeli in Rome, Italy. She spent 15 years in Brazil and in Dominica. Once she returned home she was a Pastoral Associate at St. Clare’s Hospital in Schenectady and at St. Peter and Paul Church in Hoboken, NJ.
Sr. Susan is survived by her siblings; Marianne (late Vincent) Poleto of Brunswick, Sr. Grace DiDomenicantonio, CSJP of Seattle, Ann (Thomas) Oathout of Speigletown, and Mario (late Josephine) DiDomenicantonio of Defreestville, her nieces and nephews; Connie Steinbach, Patrick Poleto, Jean Caruso, Mary Poleto, Susan Penicka, Mary K. Lettko, Susan Buscher, Thomas Oathout, Lisa Reed, and Mario DiDomenicantonio, and by several grandnieces and grandnephews, cousins, and her fellow ICM sisters.
A visitation will be held Thursday, August 15, 2019 from 4 until 7 PM at Parker Bros. Memorial Funeral Home, Watervliet. A funeral mass will be celebrated Friday, August 16th at 11 AM at St. Michael the Archangel Church, Troy. Interment will follow in St. Agnes Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Sr. Susan’s memory may be made to the ICM Sisters, Kittay House, 7th Floor, 2550 Webb Ave., Bronx, NY 10468.