Estella Colasanti Round died peacefully at age 96 on July 11, 2022.
Born in Macdonaldton, PA on July 27, 1925, she was the youngest of six children of Samuel and Marianna (Lattanzi) Colasanti. Estella graduated from St. Vincent’s Nursing School in NY, Class of ‘46, and worked, notably as Head Nurse at Providence Hospital in Wash. DC, while attending Catholic University part time. She married Herbert J. Round of Poughkeepsie, NY, in 1952, had four children, and lived in Brewster, NY for over 40 years. Estella worked as a school nurse and first grade teacher while completing her BA from Pace, and her MA in Education from Western Connecticut State University in 1982. At retirement from Brewster school system, she joined the staff at Opengate, a residence for developmentally disabled adults in Somers, NY, where she eventually settled.
Estella was compassionate and loving, and lived a life of service. A devout Catholic, she was a voracious reader, admired Dorothy Day and The Catholic Worker, and enjoyed summers on the Cape. But most of all she loved her family.
She is predeceased by her husband and is survived by her children: Mary Round; Fred Round, and his wife Cindy and her grandsons Matthew and Nicholas Round; Charles Round; and Margaret Round and her husband Alan Morin; and many nieces and nephews.
We are forever grateful to Stephine Francis, Yvonne Rattray, and Theresa Brandon for their loving home care of Estella during the last two years of her life,
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 10 AM at St. Lawrence O’Toole Church, 31 Prospect Street, Brewster, NY. Burial will be at St. Lawrence O’Toole Cemetery.
Donations in Memory of Estella may be made to Regional Hospice in Danbury, CT (regionalhospicect.org)
.“E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.” (Dante’s Divine Comedy).
Arrangements under the direction of Horn & Thomes, Inc. Funeral Home, 83 East Main Street, Pawling, NY.
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