Rachel Pingitore

Born in New York, NY on September 12, 1922 Departed on July 14, 2019 and resided in Croton, NYVisitation: Ballard Durand - White PlainsThursday July 18, 2019 4:00pm to 8:00pmMass: St. Augustine Roman Catholic ChurchFriday July 19, 2019 10:00am to 11:00amBurial of Cremains: Woodlawn CemeterySaturday July 20, 2019

Rachel Pingitore passed peacefully on July 14, 2019. Rachel was born on September 12, 1922 in the Bronx to Alphonse and Angelina Vitale. Her husband Nicholas and son Joseph predeceased her as well as her sister Rose Rapp, and brothers Gennaro {Jerry} and Michael Vitale.

Rachel spent her formative years in the Bronx where she met her husband, married, bought a home, raised her family and lived the American Dream. In 1980, she, her husband Nick and son Joseph moved to Croton-on-Hudson where they purchased land, designed and built a beautiful contemporary styled home and lived in until 2017. Throughout building Rachel was the subcontractor, a role she took next to her husband who did the plumbing/heating and her son Joseph who was the electrician. Rachel always had a positive, we-can-do-it attitude. After attending a fashion school in Manhattan Rachel worked as a presser in a laundry and during WW II Rachel was a "Rosie the Riveter" when working in a defense plant. Later, when her children were grown, Rachel went back to work as a matron on a school bus helping handicapped children.

Most professionally she was a wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and an excellent homemaker. She was a super cook and loved honoring family and friends with her kitchen creations. All that Rachel took on she did with Love and passion and a sense of excellence. In her earlier years, she loved dancing the Peabody with her husband to Big Band music. She especially enjoyed spending weekends in the family country-place with her parents, siblings and many nieces and nephews. Rachel loved traveling the country, movies and followed fashion and style with her love of clothing and dressing well.

She is a 24 year survivor of pancreatic cancer and truly came to us as one from "The Greatest Generation". She is survived by: her children Linda D. Borrelli, Nicholas Pingitore and his wife Nancy. Her four grandchildren Nicholas Pingitore and his wife Recel, Sandy Pingitore, Jessica Borrelli and husband Joe Laub, Megan and Grant Werbeck. Rachel had five great-grandchildren...Jack, Ava, Samantha, Ranger and Abigail, many nieces and nephews and her sister-in-law Mary Vitale.

We love her endlessly and will always treasure her character, strength and resilience.