Walter Caldon, of New York, NY died on Saturday, November 22. He was 92 years old and lived near Lincoln Center. After a brief illness he died peacefully in hospice at Mt. Sinai hospital in Manhattan after sustaining a head injury in a fall at the hospital. Mr. Caldon was born in Staten Island, NY. His parents, Ida Dissen(a), born in Vitebsk, and Samuel Kaldovsky, born in Kiev, emigrated to the U.S. in the first years of the 20th century. He was the youngest of three children that included the late Ruth Levine (1907-1973) and Frances Gold (1916-2000). He is survived by his sisters' children, grandchildren and great- grandchildren. Before the war, Mr. Caldon studied at Brooklyn College and The Art Students League. He then served in the U.S. Army from 1942-1946. In recognition of his academic potential, he was selected to complete a program in Civil Engineering at Rutgers University in 1943-44 under U.S. Army sponsorship. After the war, he completed a B.S. and M.A. in Fine Arts with a minor in Music at Columbia University and subsequently a Diplome at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris where he studied under composer Artur Honegger. From 1952-1973, he worked as a Civil Engineer for the New York City Housing Authority. He worked on high-rise construction during a period of great postwar expansion of the Authority. Mr. Caldon lived for over 50 years in a townhouse in Greenwich Village. After he stopped working, he also spent time at a weekend home in Southold, NY. His lengthy retirement included several extended stays in his beloved Paris as well as composing music for performing arts productions and painting. He wrote musical scores for the Living Theater, the Open Theater, The Martha Graham Dance Company and The Actors Studio among others. His paintings were featured in American Artist in August 1975 and in one-man gallery shows in Paris and New York. His work is represented in corporate and private collections in New York, Germany and France. Many of the paintings depict urban scenes, often evoking a sense of the sublime or mysterious in otherwise familiar surroundings. There would be many piquant episodes to relate. In the early 1970s, Mr. Caldon was known to leash- walk his pet capuchin monkey around the Village in diapers. As if that weren't enough, he also enjoyed smuggling the monkey into the movies inside his shirt where she would sleep blissfully until the credits rolled. One week something alarmed the monkey and she went free-range in a crowded Manhattan movie house during the second reel. The rest of the story is perhaps best left to the imagination. He was fiercely independent until the end of his life. He was grateful for the help of friends but he often confounded them by not accepting even the most basic services that make life here less arduous. On the day of his fall, he rode two buses to the hospital when he could have easily paid for the cab ride across town. He was an intense, witty friend whose sense of humor and wonderment at simple details that most of us fail to notice are missed by those fortunate enough to have known him. You could have fun in even the most dismal surroundings if you could only catch his eye. The flaws in our English and French syntax shall hereafter go uncorrected. There will be a Memorial at a future date. -
COSTIGLlO--Lawrence U., 98. Died on November 25, 2014. Beloved husband of Isabelle (nee Mahoney), who pre-deceased him. Father of Christina Bernard (Edward), Peter (Barbara), Eugene, Teresa Cantwell (Thomas). Grandfather of nine and great- grandfather of eight. A WW II veteran and a 1941 graduate of Fordham Law School. He worked for many years as Executive Vice President for the Savings Banks Association of New York. He later was a director of the Federal Housing Finance Board. Reposing at Frank E. Campbell, Friday, November 28, 2-5 and 7-9pm. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Ignatius Loyola Church, 980 Park Avenue, New York at 10am, Saturday, November 29.
FISHER--Olga Stone, born June 4, 1919, died November 21, 2014, age 95. Daughter of Joseph P. Bader and Erma Bartos Bader. She was a lifelong resident of New York City and graduated from NYU and the NYU School of Social Work. She had a long and rewarding career as a social worker, working at the Louise Wise Agency and at the Lenox Hill Hospital, retiring in 1994. After retirement, she volunteered as a bereavement counselor. The widow of Bertram M. Stone, Ms. Fisher is survived by her children, Jeffrey B. Stone (Gail A. Weiss) and Margaret S. Brodsky (Richard E. Brodsky). She also leaves three devoted grandchildren: Emily C. Stone, Jane S. Brodsky (M. Jesse Carlson) and Benjamin H. Brodsky (Ilana Brodsky), and a great grandchild, Orly S. Carlson. She also leaves her brother, Robert E. Bader, his wife, Helen K. Bader, and Diane L. Stone, mother -
SPILKE--Marilyn (nee Lesnik), 91, on November 22, 2014. A woman of courage, wit, honesty, kindness, and impeccable taste. She was the widow of Saul Spilke with whom she shared a life for almost 50 years. She will always be in the hearts of her surviving children, Kenneth and Sandy, (her beloved daughter, Karen predeceased her), her grandchildren, Ezra, Irene, George, Sam, Alex, and Emily, and her close friends. May her memory be a blessing. Funeral Service 10am, Friday Edwards-Dowdle Funeral Home, Dobbs Ferry, NY. Edwardsanddowdle.com -
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