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Barbara Randazzo

Thu, 12/28/2023 - 11:09

Feb. 2, 1939 - Nov. 2, 2023

Barbara Randazzo, a retired fashion stylist who had traveled extensively in her career, died in hospice care in Manhasset on Nov. 2. Formerly of Montauk, she was 84.

She was born Barbara Hansen in Queens on Feb. 2, 1939. She grew up in Bellerose and attended the Cathedral School of St. Mary, a private Episcopal school for girls in Garden City. She went on to earn a fashion and merchandising degree at the Tobé-Coburn School for Fashion Careers in Manhattan.

Her family began spending summers in Montauk in 1941, when she was 2 years old, in a house that her grandfather built. It was where she would eventually retire full time in 2007 and live until 2022. “Her fondest memory was of the many wonderful summers she spent there with her family and her many friends,” her family wrote.

In 1962, while she was working as a fashion stylist for a large photo studio in New York City, she met Gaetano (Randy) Randazzo, a Navy veteran who was working as a photographer at Pagano Studios. They were married the following year. He died in 1979, and Mrs. Randazzo never remarried. “She was a loving and devoted wife and greatly missed her husband,” her family wrote.

A private service for family and close friends was held on Nov. 7 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, with an Episcopal minister officiating. Mrs. Randazzo was buried at the Calverton National Cemetery next to her husband, who had been a Bronze Star recipient for his service on naval ships in the South Pacific during World War II.

Mrs. Randazzo’s family has suggested memorial donations to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, online at arfhamptons.org, or to the Montauk Library, which her family said had been very helpful to her over her years in Montauk.

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