4 years have past and it still seems like yesterday that I sat with you in the hospital praying you’d be ok but God took you from us. I guess we don’t understand why but that doesn’t ease the pain. Rest easy my friend we will all be together again.

I sit here in disbelief that 4 years have gone by, the pain in my heart hurts as much as it did that horrible day you were taken from me, I miss you SO much, feels like more and more with each passing day. I’m doing my best but that is never going to be the best version of me, that version was only possible with you by my side. I try to live everyday as happy as I could possibly be with all the people that you and I both surrounded ourself with and the ones that loved us both and we loved back. You were my rock, my stability, my whole heart, my everything. You were a lot of your family and friends rock, the go to person, the first one to SHOW UP! Steve, I need you to please look over Joy, Gianni and our God-Daughter Adriana who now have their own life battle, like the loss of you I sometimes feel I can’t handle anymore, this hit has also been hard, doing it without the rock, Uncle Ruff, Big, Mr. Incredible is just sometime unbearable to me. Please work your magic, strong arm who you can up there, shine down your healing powers, and your strength to get them all through it, get a cure, and give them ALL the long life they deserve. I love you, miss you, till I’m with you again enjoy the everlasting love with your parents, your siblings, my parents, and all the family and friends who I know are surrounding you right now. Forever my one and only.

Happy birthday my friend. Remember to teach everyone else up there to eat their cake frosting side down!

Happy birthday Steve! I hope you are celebrating with everyone who has was in heaven to welcome and all you have welcomed. I know that you are looking out for Joy and the kids. They will be fine thanks to the army we have in heaven looking out for them. 

Happy Birthday My Brother!

It’s still unbelievable to me that you are not here to celebrate with you, I promise to celebrate you today and everyday. Love and Miss you so much. Happy 61st Birthday my one and only forever love.
Please send me some sort of sign that you’re with me today. ❤️

Happy birthday brother miss you!!

Can't believe it has been 3 years today. Miss you everyday Uncle Steve, but missing you a little extra today. Love you so very much. ❤ Noelle and Nettie

My friend, I can't believe it's been three years! Holy shit, times flies. I miss you every day! My only saving grace is the memories that we made over the years. I defer to them when I start getting sad. Whether it was the vacations we shared, the golf matches we had, the softball games we played, going out for a beer or just talking on the phone shooting the shit! Hit 'em straight buddy and rest in peace!

We miss you Steve. Please continue to watch over Christa and your family. Rip.
Love always,
Lynne, Lj, briana and Millie

It is now 44 years since I met Steve. He became the brother I never had, the Godfather to my daughter and a cherished member of my family. The last three years have been tough but, all those years gave me an abundance of memories that I can look back on and smile.

Miss you my brother!

I can’t believe that it’s been 3 years since you left us.
A lot has happened and I’m sure you’ve been watching it all! Gianni just turned 6! You would have loved all the candy in the piñata this year! And he learned how to swim!! You would be so proud of him! Your corner of the pool is empty, no one took your spot don’t worry.
Mikey will be 12 soon and he’s in his 2nd year of football! Wish you can come watch him play. Adriana is starting 5th grade and she’s like a little teenager now! Always on the phone with her friends!
And Sonny is pensioning out! Exactly 1 year ago today on your last anniversary was his accident which we all know you were a part of somehow! Thank you for watching all of us from above!!! We miss and love you Uncle Ruff! ✨❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Can’t believe it’s three years. Although we never got to know you as well as we would have liked, we want you to sleep in peace knowing that there are so many good family members and friends looking after your love. Christa misses you like crazy, but we all watch over her as you do from heaven ❤️RIP Steve ❤️

Steven goes away to college in Oneonta Friday. “I wish uncle Steve was here, I know he’d be proud” was what he said to me yesterday, made me cry.

3 years and I still expect to get a text from you about who’s wearing open toed shoes on the Five! Rest In Peace my friend, you’re never forgotten and always missed.

Miss you tremendously my man,love you so many memories 

Three years or three decades...you will be missed and never forgotten! Until we meet again, be our angel and watch over all of our loved ones! XOX

Unseen, unheard, but always near and dear. Still loved and missed by so many❤️❤️

It’s hard to believe 3 years have past since you left us. Christa misses you every day. I hope seeing some of these best memories will help her during this difficult day.

You thought it was important to show Salvatore what you did for a living. So Christa and I took Salvatore to visit you at work. I uploaded the pictures from that summer evening 15 years ago. You were so proud to have him there. Salvatore might not remember that night, but he loves and misses his Uncle Steve as do we all. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

It’s been almost three years since your gone and it’s still hard to grasp. So many laughs and good times that I will never forget. Thanks for having me at holiday celebrations with your family and Christa’s as well. Thank you for treating my family members like royalty. I greatly appreciated the words of wisdom you would impart to my son from time to time. Thanks for being such a great friend!

Happy birthday in heaven! We think about you everyday. You are missed and loved.
Thank you for always being there for my family. You may be gone but never forgotten.

Happy Birthday Uncle Steve❤️ Thank you for all you did for my family. Your memory lives on with all the lives you touched and you motivate me everyday to be a better person. We all keep a part of you forever in our hearts.

Happy birthday Uncle Steve. I miss you more than you know. I finished my first year of college and I know you are the only reason why I passed my writing class. Love you and miss you lots.

Happy birthday Uncle Steve. I graduated this year and could not have done it without your help. I always thought of you when I was up late struggling to finish an essay knowing you would give me the extra motivation I needed to finish. Thank you for always looking over me.

Happy Birthday Steve
You are missed by many but mostly by your love Christa. Keep shinning down upon her.Heaven has been blessed with an Angel and I was blessed to have known you .

Thinking of you today, Your Birthday. You are so missed. LOVE YOU!

Happy Birthday Uncle Steve! Heading towards my first graduation without you to celebrate with, but you've been cheering me on, supporting me, and inspiring me the whole way in my heart. I love you and miss you so very much. ❤❤

Hey Uncle Big,

Today you turn 60 in Heaven. I just want to thank you and tell you how grateful I am for the time I had with you on earth but also for the ways you have looked out for me while up in Heaven. I know you’re with me in all my struggles and I know you’re with me celebrating all my joyous moments. It’s hitting me different not having you this year, because I realize it will be hard knowing any day now my daughter will be born and she won’t get the chance to meet you in person and create so many memories with you like I have. But I truly believe in my heart that you have already been protecting her, and will continue to do so after she’s born. I can’t wait to tell her my favorite stories about you and the love shared between you and Aunt Christa. You always had a way with words and writing so I wanted to share this with you. I hope you like it.
Happy Birthday, I miss you.


Sometimes I talk to you,
even though I can’t reach you

Try to imagine your laugh
when it hurts to miss you

Wish I could go back,
tell my old self that

You don’t have the time to not make time,
It goes fast

And I was living like you’d live forever
And it took losing you to learn to love better

To be the daughter, who comes home more often
Who holds onto a goodbye hug a little longer
To be the best friend, who promised to check in
And the kind of sister my brother always needed
Who takes time to call even just to say hey,

Cause you loved me that way.

I still remember your big embrace
now can only hold you in a picture frame

I still see you waving
with the biggest smile

we would find ourselves a seat
and chat life for a while

And you were living like you wouldn’t live forever
You knew the little things in life are what mattered

like taking the time to write someone a letter,
or pulling out a mic and singing Frank Sinatra
You drank the good stuff even just for poolsides
Had such a love for musicals you just couldn’t hide

I only hope to live life even half like that
I hope to live my life filling those gaps

You held nothing back, gave everything

You loved me that way.

Happy Birthday in Heaven Uncle Steve!! ♥️
We miss you so much!!! Please keep watching over us until we see you again!! ♥️♥️♥️

Another birthday, another year you are missed! Happy Heavenly Birthday, Steve. Know you are always in our thoughts and prayers! XOX Maria

I received a call yesterday, from yet another person from Steve’s Childhood who unfortunately just heard of Steve’s passing. Here it is 2 years later and I’m still getting calls of random people who Steve touched in that special way he had about him. This call was from Doug Miller, a neighbor from Rumsey Ave, that knew Steve since the age of 10. I get sad and emotional, but it also brings a smile to my face to hear how much he was loved and more importantly remembered. I love hearing the stories, and seeing pictures of their memories together. I already know how special he was, but it amazes me to get these calls and realize how much he meant to SO MANY lives he touched. Memories that people will always have of him. This is exactly why I created this page. I want everyone who he’s touched to share such memories. Seeing pictures, reading stories of how he touched so many lives is what makes me smile. So Thank you Doug, it really meant a lot to me that you took the time to pick up the phone and call me, and share the stories and pictures you had. Here are some of the memories he holds close to his heart, so now I can hold them close to mine.

“ Will never forget my friend Steve all the basketball wiffle ball and touch football we played together the good humor truck getting ice cream playing hide and go seek great times on rumsey ave rest in peace my friend”

I have also posted the picture he sent of him with Steve and his cousin John. Also the pictures of the year book of Doug’s, that Steve wrote in. You can find those in the Gallery section of this memorial page.

Thank you again, Doug

Being the two year anniversary of losing our friend it got me thinking about some of the things he used to do that made him so unforgettable. Steve was notorious for coming over to my house and sitting in my recliner. He would promptly tune the TV to whichever of his shows was on, (Jeopardy, Fox News etc). After a few minutes it was off to the freezer for a frozen french bread pizza…..which always went down better with a glass of single malt scotch. Once the food was gone my dog Lola would jump on his lap and he’d drift off into his nap (of which I’m posting a picture). When he would wake up it was time for the final ritual before leaving, his inspection of my closet to determine which articles of clothing I didn’t need and would be much better off in his collection of unworn clothing kept in his mother’s basement.
With anyone else one might find these things annoying but not with Steve. He was such a great guy and so affable that it was a welcome occurrence and just one of the thousand things I miss about him.

Hey Big,

I write to you all the time in my own journal but because it’s the 2nd year anniversary of your passing, I felt it deserved to be in a special spot surrounded by other letters of love.

First off, I wanted to thank you again for coming to me in a dream a few months ago. I told Aunt Christa about it. I told her how I was struggling and felt like you somehow knew it enough to check on me. I told her how you and I laughed and you offered advice and told me to tell her you said hi. You’re still looking out for me even if it’s not in a physical presence.

Second, I’ve been thinking a lot about one of the newest people in my life and a part of me feels like you had a part in sending him my way. I talk about you to him all the time and how you guys are so similar in so many ways. I wish you could have met each other in person. I already know he would have been in the corner lounge chair with you, people watching at family parties until the sun whipped you out enough to fall asleep. 

I miss you so much. I hope Grandma & Grandpa, and your mom are with you. Continue to watch over us especially Aunt Christa.

See you in the next life. Love you♥️
Love Little Little

Steve,

We miss you everyday! Every time Jayden and I see a white butterfly and I ask him who he thinks it is he says Steve! We know you are watching over all of us and are around us all the time. You may not be with us physically we know you are with us everyday in one way or the other!

I still remember the time we were on the vacation in the sun, we were hanging on the balcony and you showed me on your phone pictures of Christa when you two were young! It was one of the sweetest things I have ever seen. You two truly had a love that most people will never have!

Miss you dearly!

Hey My Brother!
I dearly miss our intellectual banter, and the
times we shared a private joke. Time flies like the wind these days and I find myself thinking of you when my mind wanders and
reflects upon the simple things that life has to offer. Your passing has had a significant impact on my life, and the ones who were a treasure to you. I only hope that the pain of
of losing you will strengthen my appreciation for life and how important my
Family means to me. We will see each other
again, but not yet. Rest easy. Love you!

Unbelievable that it’s been two years! It’s all still a blur! I will forever treasure our softball games, golf matches, Yankee conversations and endless talks about life! You are constantly in my dreams and forever in my thoughts and prayers. I was trying to think of something poignant to write and thought a Morgan Freeman line summed it up best: ‘I think I just miss my friend’! Rest well, buddy!

My best memories of Steve is at all the parties we had or went to . Steve’s presence was always known, he was always the biggest guy in the room always with a smile on his face. Steve asked me every time he saw me no matter when it was how my parents were. I can always count on Steve to pick me up over his shoulder with a single swoop if I had a little too much to drink during a party when I was going through one of my darkest times. Puccio Family being lifelong family friends made Steve just as big a part of that. May he Rest In Peace and until we meet again for a party in the big blue sky ! Xoxo

Hard to believe it’s been 2 years! I know that our relationship had its peaks and valleys. I was happy that we were finally at a good point. People always hate to be asked to drive someone to the airport, help them move, etc You were always the first to volunteer, what a true sign that was! I miss the things we never got to say and do. 
Know that I will always be here to help support Christa in every and any way she needs. ♥️♥️♥️♥️

They always say when you make plans, God laughs. I know we will make more memories one day but I truly miss the ones we never got to. There should have been many more weekends in Westerly, trips to the Caribbean, cruises to exotic places, retiring in Naples, watching the Yankees and Giants, and of course, just hanging out poolside and playing games. Not to mention, no one refills my glass as fast as you! I miss you and all the laughs we didn't get to have, but I know eventually we will. XOX (PS...I know you're up there editing my tribute. LOL)

Today is a difficult day for a lot of us. August 24th is the day that you want to be with your mom and your dad. I only got to know you for a short period of time - about two years. However, in that short time I got to see what a great person you were. You had a great sense of humor, you had a magnificent understanding of the English language and your recognition of sports statistics and trivia was tremendous … I feel that your best quality is caring for the well being and safety for the people closest to you. I got to see that first hand by working with Christa. You were always making sure she was safe when traveling when ever we went into somewhat questionable neighborhoods. Making sure she knew about any pending bad weather, traffic or even if it was getting dark outside- that she was accompanied to her car. Even if it was right in front of her office in Tarrytown. 
Steve, thank you for always making me feel comfortable and welcomed in your presence. I will always appreciate our time spent together and remember all the funny moments, conversations and good times we shared!! -
I hope you are getting to use Titleist Pro V1’s for free playing golf in heaven.
God bless!!!

Hey Steve O
I can’t believe it’s already two years . I can still see you sitting on your chair by the pool sipping on a drink . I was always happy you enjoyed coming over and relaxing with us . We miss you so much .

I was never fortunate enough to meet Steve but I feel like I know him from all the amazing stories that I have heard from his loved ones/friends. The majority coming from a person very near and dear to me, his beloved wife, Christa Puccio-Gallo. I wish I could have been able to experience some of the stories I have heard regarding the legendary Sargent Gallo but his legacy will live on through his wife and loved ones forever. May he continue to watch over and show signs of his guiding presence to all those who miss him dearly. Rest In Peace.

Today is two years since the passing of my brother Steve. (We all know he was not my real brother but as close as anyone has ever come to being my brother). I miss him but he will never be out of my life.

I miss you and love you soooo much
You always helped me with math and baseball
I started football this year. I wish you where here to watch me
Love, Mikey Gaga❤️

"I wish I got to know you better because I know I missed out”

There is not a day that passes that you are not in my thoughts and prayers.  We shared so many happy moments together as well as hard times...I will always be grateful for the friend you have always been to Marco, the Godfather you were to Noelle, and the writing mentor to Gino. I miss our talks on my porch.
I love you my dear friend

You still appear as this beautiful butterfly, who appears whenever I am wondering about… on my walks and thinking deep thoughts, you appear, you lighten the load, and you bring light to everything still, and a smile appears in me and this must be you. You are dearly missed, and we love you all around us now.

I love and miss you everyday. You're always in my heart and I am better because I knew you. Thank you for the endless support you showed me. Still trying to make you proud, hope it's working ❤

I miss you everyday my Brother- so MANY memories filled with fun and Laughter- Love you until we meet again- Rob

Two years since you passed and I still pick up the phone to call you when something reminds me of you. The boys still talk about you all the time and miss you. Love you, buddy.