Deceased: 2012-06-12
Diocese: NEW YORK
ICTE Fall: 1998
Father Alfred J. Pucci, who was pastor emeritus of St. Roch’s on Staten Island, died June 12, 2012 at Staten Island University Hospital. He was 86.
Father Pucci served as pastor of St. Roch’s from 1983 until his retirement in 2001. He then became pastor emeritus.
In retirement, he was priest in residence at Holy Family parish, also on Staten Island, until 2011 when health reasons necessitated a move to Carmel Richmond Nursing Home there.
Cardinal Dolan offered the Funeral Mass June 16 at St. Rita’s on Staten Island. Msgr. William Belford, vicar for clergy, was the homilist.
Most of Father Pucci’s years as a priest were spent serving communities on Staten Island. He served at St. Rita’s parish from 1958 to 1979.
Father Pucci, in fact, was a native of the Bronx. He studied for the priesthood at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Dunwoodie and was ordained in 1954.
He held a bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College and a master’s in pastoral counseling from Iona College.
During his priesthood, he also served at St. Stanislaus, Pleasant Valley; St. James the Apostle, Carmel; St. Francis of Assisi, Mount Kisco; Christ the King, the Bronx; and Our Lady of Peace, Manhattan.
Burial was in Resurrection Cemetery on Staten Island.
