Sarah Munno Heffernan

SARAH MUNNO HEFFERNAN Sarah Heffernan, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, passed on due to complications from cancer on Thursday, May 11, 2017. She was at home and in the loving care of her sons at the time. Sandy, as she liked to be called was born on August 8, 1935 in New York City to Joseph and Victoria Munno. It was in New York that she met and married her husband of close to four decades, Lawrence Heffernan Sr. who has preceded her in perpetual peace. Surviving her are her 3 loving sons, Lawrence, Joseph and Richard Heffernan, 6 grandchildren, Carey, Justin, Holly, Brock, Angela and Julie and 2 sisters, Phyllis Pollaro and Constance Ramos. In her younger days in New York City, Sandy was a beautiful, spirited young woman considered an opera prodigy. As a young girl she said that she liked opera story lines because she said they reminded her of fairy tales. Once she met her husband Lawrence though it was true love and she gave everything up to start a family. Her marriage lasted over 35 years until Larry's untimely death in 1986. Sandy was a decades-long resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she lived since moving with her husband and children first from New...[more]

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rk to Hollywood. Due to her Italian lineage, Sandy liked two things best, to cook and to worry. And in true Italian-mother style when she cooked, she cooked big. Her spaghetti or platters of eggplant couldn't be beat and on very special occasions her recipe for cheesecake was amazing. When her husband or sons were sick a large pot of her homemade chicken soup could cure almost anything. Sandy worked for many years in both elementary and middle schools and her "kids" as she liked to call her students adored her warm and spirited ways. When she could still see well enough, Sandy loved to read and would devour book after book along with her other favorite, Hershey's chocolate bars. In better days she was always up to travel either on many road trips or even to Paris once in First Class on Pan Am. Sarah, Sandy, Mom, Mother, Mama, Grandma and all of the things that made her, will be missed terribly by her family. Sarah's 81+ years on this earth have ended but we take comfort that she has now passed all of the pain of her illness and will join her loving husband in perpetual peace. She who gave us life, we love from the bottom of our very hearts. Sarah will be laid to rest next to her beloved husband, Lawrence Heffernan, Sr; on Thursday, May 18th at Twelve Noon with a Catholic Prayer Service at St. Joseph Cemetery, Middletown, New York.