Harriet T. Kane

New Lebanon – On August 18, 2010, Harriet T. Kane, aged 92, died peacefully following a long and graceful life.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Harriet was raised in Ozone Park, NY, and attended John Adams High School. She met her husband Richard ice skating and moved to Floral Park, NY, in 1955.
Her four children and her nieces and nephews learned many life lessons from her in the big house on Verbena Avenue. She was employed for several years at the Sewanhaka Central High School District and volunteered in several clubs at Our Lady of Victory Church, including the Catholic Daughters of America and the Holy Rosary Society. She was a member of the Jaycees, which was started by a friend Tetta Body in the 1930s, and the group remained friends throughout their lives until their deaths with Harriet’s being the last. There were 15 to 20 women in the group. Following Richard’s retirement from the New York City Department of Corrections, they retired and moved north to East Chatham, NY, where Harriet and Richard became involved in their new Church, Immaculate Conception in New Lebanon, NY.  Following her husband’s death in 1997, Harriet worked as a Church Assistant for the parish.
In 2000, Harriet moved to Monroe. CT, with her son, Richard, and became involved with the Immaculate Heart of Mary Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.  In 2005, she moved with Richard and Susan to Ocean Isle, NC.
A gracious and generous woman, Harriet touched the lives of all who had the pleasure of knowing her. She was devoted to her faith and her numerous relatives. Her most remarkable feature was her dedication to her family. Her fondest wish was to be reunited with her husband. She is dearly missed.
She is pre-deceased by her husband, Richard A. Kane, her daughter, Eloise, her nieces, Lynne and Agnes, her sisters, Teresa Pando and Teresa DiRocco, and her brothers, Joseph Fallon and Edward Doyle. She is survived by her sons, Richard and wife Susan of Ocean Isle Beach, NC, Brian and June Castellano of Rochester, NY, and Peter and wife Patricia of Scottsville, NY, her daughter, Miriam and husband Dennis Pasquarell, her grandchildren, Diane, Richard, Peter, Emmalee, Vincent, Zachery, Cortney, Rose, Christine, Fallon and Nicolette, and her great-grandchildren, Ryan, Nora, Clare, Lanette, Noah and Grace.   She is also survived by nieces and nephews, JoAnn, James, Ellen (Klemballa), John and Barbara Schnurr (Tucker), Teresa Pando (Fitzgerald), Veronica and Christopher and John Fallon. She had many other relatives, including cousins and nieces and nephews, as well as friends from many walks of life.
A Liturgy of Christian Death and Burial was celebrated by Rev John L. Close on Tuesday morning, August 24, at 9 am in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, 732 US Route 20, New Lebanon. Interment followed in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Nassau, NY.
Relatives and friends were invited to the Hall & Higgins Funeral Home 457 NY 43, Stephentown, NY, on Monday from 2 to 4 pm and 6 to 8 pm for visitation. Memory contributions may be made to the Immaculate Conception Memorial Fund in care of the funeral home office, P.O. Box 9, Stephentown, NY, 12168.