Jeanne M. Laddomada

Visiting Hours: Tuesday, 5/29 & Wednesday, 5/30
2-4 & 7-9 PM Both Days

Mass Thursday, 5/31, 11:15 AM
St. William the Abbot RC Church

Cremation Private


Jeanne Marie Laddomada (formerly Knice), 67 of Seaford, N.Y. peacefully passed away Friday, May twenty-fifth, after a brief battle with cancer. Upon her wishes, she received hospice in her home with family and friends by her side all week.

Jeanne was the oldest of six children born to parents Marie Ethel and William Charles on May 2, 1951. Diagnosed with scoliosis as a teenager, doctors predicted she would never be able to have children. She spent a grueling six months in the hospital at the age of seventeen while recovering from spinal fusion surgery.

Jeanne moved on to secretarial school and worked at W.R. Grace in Manhattan, first in engineering and then in legal. She met the love of her life, John R. Laddomada at a disco in Brooklyn in 1969 and proclaimed she would marry him after just one date. Three years later, they exchanged vows on the beautiful day of May 27th.  Despite doctor's predictions, John and Jeanne went on to have six children: Jennifer, John, Jeannine, Kristine, Mary, and Peter. Nicknamed the “baby whisperer” for her ability to soothe infants, Jeanne always felt being a mother was her greatest joy, telling them they were the “stars in her crown.”

In 1978, Jeanne and John left Brooklyn and settled in Seaford to raise their children. Jeanne was always sure of two things no matter what: a Catholic education for her children and a family vacation each year. A family favorite was the year they drove a van across the U.S. on a month-long visit to the National Parks and other major landmarks.  After the children moved out, Jeanne and John began traveling to such places as England, Spain, Italy, Hawaii, and Mexico. Also at this time, Jeanne returned to work first at Grand Avenue School in Bellmore-Merrick and Unqua Elementary School in Massapequa. She cherished her time working again, especially around children, and spent almost twenty years doing so.  Jeanne spent her brief retirement traveling with her husband, listening to the Beatles, and keeping up with her eight grandchildren.

Jeanne will sorely be missed by all of her children and grandchildren, her five siblings, Joanne Mastro, Jackie Costello, Maureen Ambinder, Karen Vaslas, Chris Knice, and their families, close friends Beth and Patrick O’Mara, and especially her husband of nearly forty-six years. John asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be made in his wife’s name to her favorite charity, St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.