Gladys Positano

— Gladys (Bredice) Positano, 97, of Mystic and formerly of Uncasville and Windsor, passed away peacefully Monday, May 6, 2024, at Pendleton Health & Rehabilitation. Born in Hartford July 21, 1926, daughter of the late Leonard and Caroline (Cuban) Bredice, she was raised in Hartford and was a graduate of Hartford Public High School, Class of 1944. After high school, Gladys took a position with The Hartford Insurance Group where she worked for 39 years until her retirement in 1982 as a manager of employee insurance benefits.

Gladys and her husband Victor moved to Windsor in 1957, where they became active members of the community. Gladys was a parishioner of the former St. Gertrude Church in Windsor for many years, and she was a member of Gray-Dickinson Post #59, American Legion in Windsor. While working at The Hartford Insurance Group, Gladys also served on many volunteer committees giving back to schools and community projects in the Greater Hartford area.

After her husband passed, Gladys moved to Uncasville to be closer to her nieces and nephews and later moved to Mystic where she had lived for several years, first at

Masonicare and more recently at Pendleton Nursing and Rehabilitation. Most of all, Gladys will be remembered as an independent, opinionated, feisty, and cute woman who was loved by everyone.

She leaves three nieces and a nephew, Angela Greaves and her husband Richard Sealander of St. Augustine, Fla., Lillian Fappiano and her husband Eugene of Jupiter, Fla. and Mystic, Johanna Snyder and her husband Ben of Ocala, Fla., and Charles Bonelli Jr. and his wife Candace of Suffield; her close friend’s daughters whom she thought of as family and who lovingly referred to her as Aunt Gladys, Maria Gionfriddo of East Hartford and Elizabeth Gionfriddo-Mayer of Claremont, Fla. In addition to her husband and her parents, she was predeceased by a brother, John F. Bredice; and two sisters, Mollie Coughlin and Helen Bonelli.

Her family will receive friends from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 11, followed by a funeral service at 9:30 a.m., in the chapel of the Carmon Windsor Funeral Home, 807 Bloomfield Ave., Windsor. Burial will follow in Windsor Veterans Memorial Cemetery on East Street in Windsor. For online condolences please visit, www.carmonfuneralhome.com.