Antoinette M. Albero

Antoinette M. Albero, passed away at home in Peterborough, NH on April 15th, 2021 at the age of 98.

Antoinette (Ann) was born in the North Mianus area of Greenwich, on February 9, 1923 to Angelo and Rosaria Bonvenuto. She was the last surviving member of her immediate family, which included an older brother Manual Bonvenuto and a younger sister Florence Bonvenuto.

Antoinette graduated from Greenwich High School in 1941 and spent the years during and after the war working as a seamstress in a factory making uniforms and other clothing.

She married Louis J. D’Amore, a musician, also of Greenwich in 1949 and from the early 1950’s Antoinette worked part-time at Bloomingdale’s in Stamford until her husband’s death in 1964. Antoinette remarried in 1969 to the late Peter C. Albero of Greenwich.

Antoinette worked in the advertising department of Pitney Bowes from 1964 until retirement in 1985. She made lifelong friends in the various places that she worked.

Antoinette was a very active person who valued knowledge, traveled extensively and became an avid reader; factors that surely contributed to her longevity.

She was a parishioner of St. Bridget’s Church and belonged to the Catholic Daughters for many years.

She loved baseball and was a NY Yankees fan from the days of Joe DiMaggio when she used to listen to the games on the radio while ironing. She volunteered at the Whitney Museum and often attended the museums, theatre and the opera. She frequently went to NYC together with her sister Florence, where they would sometimes attend two performances in a day. They not only covered the popular shows of the time, but would also venture off-Broadway.

She is survived by her only child, Louis J. D’Amore and his wife, Donna of Wilton, NH; her grandchildren Jennifer Arbour and husband Jason Asselin of New Ipswich, NH and Jessica Arbour of Questa, NM and great-grandson Eli ArbourAsselin. In addition to her direct descendants, she is survived by cousins, nieces and nephews of the Bonvenuto, D’Amore and Albero families.

As she would say, she “had a good run.” She lived independently, drove a car and bowled well into her 90’s. She was an original independent woman of great character that will be missed.

Funeral services will be held at Saint Bridget of Ireland Church in Stamford at 10:00 on Wednesday, May 12th followed by private burial at St. Mary’s cemetery in Greenwich.