Catherine “Kay” Costa

Catherine Rose “Kay” Costa (nee Paniccia), age 96 of Glenville, NY, died peacefully on Monday, Oct. 4, 2021.

She had lived in Clifton before moving to Wayne many years ago. In recent years, she moved closer to her family in Glenville.

Born and raised in Schenectady, NY, Catherine graduated from Mount Pleasant High School in Schenectady. She was an Agency Administration Specialist for State Farm Insurance Company of Wayne, where she worked for twenty-five years before retiring in 1987.

Kay enjoyed crocheting, her flower garden, and especially loved babysitting for her grandchildren when they were young. Christmas Eve was at her home for many years, and her special culinary perfection in making meatballs, calamari, and fish will be greatly missed.

In the mid 1940’s, she went on vacation from Schenectady, NY down to her aunt’s home in New Jersey. A large group of family and friends went to the Palisades Amusement Park together and her husband-to-be, Salvatore N. Costa, was one of those friends. He stayed with Catherine the entire time as they went around the amusement park. She considered this their first date. They married on June 1 1947 at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Schenectady, NY, and went to Atlantic City, NJ for their honeymoon.

She was the beloved wife of Salvatore, N. Costa for fifty-eight years before his passing in 2005, the beloved mother of Carol Kleine and her husband Joseph of Saratoga, NY, and Dr. Kenneth Costa, DMD and his wife Nancy of Ormond Beach, FL, cherished grandmother of Kristen Pruitt and her husband Christopher, Michelle Bartlome and her husband Joshua, and Michael Costa and his wife Miriam, eight great-grandchildren; Kennedy, Harlowe, Cody, Kara, Joshua, Charlotte, Maxwell, and Wallace, loved sister of Rose Forte of Corinth, NY. She was predeceased by her brother; Benjamin Paniccia (1991).

In lieu of flowers, donations would be appreciated to the American Cancer Society, cancer.org.