Doris A. DiSunno

Doris A. DiSunno, a member of the DiSunno family of Amagansett and a legal secretary in East Hampton for many years, died at her Bryant Street, Springs, home on Aug. 22. She was 76 and had been diagnosed with esophageal cancer a year ago.

Ms. DiSunno and her then-husband, Eugene Pardini, owned and ran Brent’s General Store in Amagansett for a few years in the late 1980s. As a legal secretary, she worked for Fallon and O’Connor, William Duggan, and Dayton and Voorhees, from which she had retired recently.

Ms. DiSunno loved to cook, especially with her only grandchild, Mia Rose Pardini, and to travel. Her family was extremely important to her, they said, and “she had a way of making every niece and nephew feel that he or she was special,” said her sister-in-law, Peggy DiSunno of Amagansett.

Ms. DiSunno’s family was one of the first four Italian families from Nusco, in Central-Southern Italy, to settle here, in 1901. She was born at Southampton Hospital on Aug. 9, 1942, one of four children of Tony DiSunno and the former Gladys Robinson of Amagansett. 

She grew up in Amagansett, attending school there and graduating from East Hampton High School. She and Mr. Pardini, who died 10 years ago, were married in April 1953; the marriage ended in divorce. A son, Brian Pardini of Springs, survives.

Ms. DiSunno was a member of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. A funeral Mass was said on Tuesday at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Amagansett by the Rev. Ryan Creamer, followed by a reception at Scoville Hall. She was cremated.

In addition to her son, a brother, David DiSunno of Amagansett, and a sister, Sharon DiSunno of Hampton Bays, survive. Her brother Anthony DiSunno of East Hampton died before her.

Memorial donations have been suggested to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.