HUDSON FALLS – Mary P. Pinkowski, 85, of Dean Road, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving family on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, at the Glens Falls Hospital.
Born on February 6, 1929 in West Rutland, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Antonina Rostkowski.
Mary was a graduate of West Rutland High School and on Nov. 22, 1947,she married Walter P. Pinkowski at the St. Stanislaus Church in West Rutland, Vermont. They were married 51 years when he passed away on August 30, 1999.
For 24 years, Mary was employed as a winder at General Electric in Fort Edward, retiring in 1989.
She was a communicant of St. Mary’s/St. Paul’s Church in Hudson Falls. Mary also belonged to the Sixty Plus Hudson Falls/Fort Edward Senior Citizens and the Glens Falls Senior Citizens.
She loved taking trips with her family, reading and swimming. Mary enjoyed tending to her vegetable garden and going to flea markets.
Besides her parents, she was predeceased by her four sisters, Jane Sloan, Jean King, Betty Rucinski and Helen Burns; her brother, Edmund Jordan; and her son in law, “Rip” Cain.
Survivors include her six children, Daniel Pinkowski and his wife, Donna, of Glens Falls, Linda Rosati and her husband, Richard, of Florida, Carol Cain of Hudson Falls, Nancy Pinkowski of New York, Michael Pinkowski and his wife, Margaret, of Hudson Falls and Paula Mumblo and her husband, John, of Moreau; six grandchildren, John Pinkowski and his wife, Starr of Putnam Station, Brian Cain of Hudson Falls, Lisa Brown of South Glens Falls, Amanda Rosati of Florida, Matthew Pinkowski and Melissa Pinkowski, both of Hudson Falls; four great grandchildren, Carly Pinkowski of Putnam Station, Michael Brown III, Jacob Brown and Alexis Brown, all of South Glens Falls; her great, great grandson, Brayden Davis; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
There will be no calling hours.
A Memorial Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 29, at St. Mary’s/St. Paul’s Church on the park in Hudson Falls.
The Rite of Committal will be conducted at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 29 at the Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Veteran’s Cemetery in the town of Stillwater.
The family suggests that memorial donations be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
