Margaret Ora-Lee Capozzola of Montauk “loved spending sunny days in her vegetable and flower gardens,” her family said. She enjoyed imagining “how delicious a meal would be when she found a new recipe.”
Mrs. Capozzola died in her sleep on April 15 at San Simeon by the Sound Nursing and Rehabilitation in Greenport. She was 88.
She was a homemaker and a reader, and although she was known to laugh out loud at her favorite television comedies and “surprisingly enjoyed ‘Law & Order’ and ‘Criminal Minds’ and had no problem bingeing the marathons,” she “dropped everything when her children visited, and spending time with her grandchildren brought her great joy.”
Born on Feb. 25, 1937, in Bayside, Queens, she was a daughter of Thomas and Ora-Lee Linder. She grew up there, later moving to Mattituck. After marrying Frank A. Capozzola on Feb. 3, 1957, they lived in Eastport and later Montauk. Her husband died in 1983.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, John and Cathy Capozzola of Sag Harbor, and their sons, Frank and RJ Capozzola, and her daughter and son-in-law, Michele and Paul Sachse of Ulster Park, N.Y., and their children, Paul and Olivia Sachse.
A sister, Audrey Sheffield, and three brothers, Donald, Thomas, and Dwight Capozzola, died before her. Two other brothers died soon after birth.
Visiting hours were held on Monday at the Robertaccio Funeral Home in Center Moriches. A funeral was held the next day at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, also in Center Moriches, with burial following at Mount Pleasant Cemetery there.
Memorial donations have been suggested to the Montauk Fire Department’s ambulance company at 12 Flamingo Avenue, Montauk 11954, or the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons at arfhamptons.org.
