Born Concetta Pinnola in Rosebank, she moved to South Beach in 1957. She graduated from New Dorp High School.
Mrs. Suthard worked as a secretary for the U.S. Public Health Service, before retiring in 1975.
When she was younger, she was a member of Staats Post American Legion Ladies Auxiliary, Rosebank, where she was a member of the drum and bugle corps in the 1940s. She was also a chaperone for the Staten Island Thunderbirds Drum and Bugle Corps.
She enjoyed crocheting, knitting, and quilting, as well as tending to her garden. She also enjoyed cooking for her family.
Mrs. Suthard and her husband, the late Claude Suthard, enjoyed spending summers at Lake Walkill, N.J.
Mrs. Suthard always worried about everybody, her daughter Diane Bennett said.
“She just had a gentle heart, quick mind, and a sharp tongue some days,” Ms. Bennett said. “But she was always trying to be fair.”
She was a parishioner of St. Joseph R.C. Church, Rosebank.
Her husband of 65 years died in 2009. She is also predeceased by a grandson, Claude D. Suthard, Jr., who died in 1986.
In addition to her daughter, surviving are her son, Claude D. Suthard; five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
The funeral is Friday from the Virginia Funeral Chapel, Dongan Hills, with a mass at 10 a.m. in St. Joseph’s R.C. Church, Rosebank. Burial will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Grasmere.
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