HearingOurHeroes

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of our moderator Loretta Giamboi, which occurred on Sunday, August 2, 2020.

Loretta loved our country and was dedicated to serving our troops and veterans, and was actively involved with multiple veterans organizations on Staten Island. Under her leadership, Hearing Our Heroes provided numerous services and hosted dozens of events aimed at helping and thanking veterans. With her knowledge of the community and passion for service, Loretta helped lead the group to achieve national recognition for its work. In 2013, Loretta and members of the group had the opportunity to meet former President George W. Bush, who thanked the group for its work.

Everyone could count on Loretta for a listening ear, thoughtful advice, or just a smile and laugh on a difficult day. She will be dearly missed.

Arrangements

Wake
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Casey McCallum Rice Funeral Home
30 Nelson Ave., Staten Island, NY 10308

Funeral Mass
Thursday, August 6, 2020
11:15 am
The Church of St. Clare
110 Nelson Ave., Staten Island, NY 10308

Happy Veterans Day to all the men and women who fought for our great country or who is currently fighting for us now. We thank you for all the sacrifices that were made and that a currently being made so we can live in a free country. Happy Veterans Day and God Bless America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

While Farrell was closed last Thursday, our students were out working hard helping the Veterans! Keep up the good work guys!

This Christmas Hearing Our Heroes said thank you to military families by providing 200 gifts to the children of the 369th Sustainment Brigade, which is currently deployed overseas, at their family Christmas party in mid December. A special thanks to the brigade for helping coordinate, the Farrell Alumni who helped Santa distribute the gifts, the volunteers who helped purchase and deliver the gifts, and the donors who made the $4,000 worth of gift purchases possible!

Great job to our executives, Cole DiGiacomo, Nicholas Marinelli, James D'Albora, Andrew Fiorica, Andrew DeSalvo, and Mario Introna, who helped out today at La Fontana for the veterans breakfast! It was a great turn out, thank you La Fontana for the outstanding service! Another shoutout to Rolling Thunder SI NY for hosting such a great event for our veterans! Today we'd really like to thank our veterans who served, we truly do appreciate your service and all you have done!

Big shout out to two of our senior executives Cole DiGiacomo & Nick Distefano to living up to be a Farrell man, and helping out a Monsignor Farrell Alumni, and Marine Corp Veteran from Operation Desert Storm with yard work today! Keep up the good work boys! Vir Fidelis!

Thank you msgr farrell high school for having students come shovel for us old folks.
From Jennifer Saccenti

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Like · Reply · 2 · January 24 at 4:36pm
Pegi Boone-Picerno
Pegi Boone-Picerno I should get them for Edd...poor guy was out over 5 and 1/2 hours shoveling...he can't do this much longer :0
Like · Reply · 1 · January 24 at 6:04pm
Jennifer Saccenti
Jennifer Saccenti No no ed we r old, no more shoveling. Just call the school
Like · Reply · January 24 at 8:29pm
Loretta Giamboi
Loretta Giamboi You have to be a disabled Veteran to go on the list. You can call my office at 718-979-2050. We will then try to see if we can get a student who lives close to you who is a member of Hearing Our Heroes.
Like · Reply · January 24 at 8:49pm

Student from Hearing Our Heroes hard at work helping a Veteran shovel out after the blizzard.

Happy New Year to all the veterans. Thank you for your service and thank you to all the men and women who are in the military now. God Bless

Just want to wish a Merry Christmas to all the men and women who can't be home today with their families. Also want to wish a Merry Christmas to all the veterans, thank you for everything you have done for this country. God Bless America 🇺🇸🇺🇸