For those Staten Islanders we lost in 2020 | From the editor
Updated Jan 03, 2021;
Posted Jan 03, 2021
Confetti lies on the street after the Times Square New Year s Eve ball dropped in a nearly empty Times Square early Friday, as the area normally packed with revelers was closed. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)AP
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Hi Neighbor,
It was year ago when we welcomed this new decade. Who could have imagined? “Out with the old and in with the new,” we proclaimed with glee. A familiar refrain. But what we didn’t know was that with the new would come an vicious enemy to ravish our nation.
Advance Woman of Achievement Mary Buttermark, a community volunteer for more than three decades, dies. She would have been 91 next week.
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
Posted Dec 24, 2020
Mary Buttermark , an Advance Woman of Achievement in the Class of 2012, with her sterling bowl, at the annual luncheon at the Hilton Garden Inn. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
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Mrs. Buttermark was a week short of her 91st birthday.
In speaking of the volunteer extraordinaire who was recognized as an Advance Woman of Achievement in the Class of 2012, Anthony C. Ferreri , then SIUH president, said of her community service:
“Her gracious demeanor and welcoming smile serve to ease anxiety for those who desire information, whether it be the location of pre-surgery testing, a patient’s room, or simply directions to a particular service area,” he said in nominating the Great Kills resident as a Woman of Achievement.