Albert A. Zaccaria of Montauk, a Navy veteran who served as a medic aboard the U.S.S. Saipan during the Korean War and later became a schoolteacher, died at home on Nov. 23. The cause was cardiopulmonary failure. A former winter resident of Little Torch Key and The Villages, Fla., he was 93.
Mr. Zaccaria spent 25 years teaching fifth and sixth grades in the South Huntington School District. After his retirement, he traveled the country coast to coast in an R.V. A gregarious type of person, his family said, he enjoyed meeting people everywhere he went.
Born in Brooklyn on March 15, 1931, to Mario Zaccaria and the former Elvira Conte, he attended the State University at Brockport, where he earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree, both in education.
He and Mariann Johnson were married in August of 1965. They had two children and later divorced. Their children, Victoria Zacharewicz and her husband, Eugene, of Pittsfield, Mass., and Jeffrey Zaccaria and his wife, Elizabeth, of Montauk, survive. Two grandchildren, Ian Zacharewicz and Adam Zacharewicz, also survive.
An outdoorsman, Mr. Zaccaria passed on an appreciation of hunting and fishing to his children, his family said.
He was buried at Calverton National Cemetery on Monday. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Montauk Fire Department’s Company 4 Ambulance at 12 Flamingo Avenue, Montauk 11954.
