With so much sadness, we are brokenhearted to announce that on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2023, during the 3 p.m. hour of Divine Mercy, Prudence Migliardi Sabia passed away at the age of 95 at her daughter Christine’s home in Florida. Prudy, as she was so fondly called, was born on May 28, 1928, in Port Chester, New York, to the late Carmella Saline Migliardi and Fred Migliardi.

She was the granddaughter of the late Antonio Saline and Giuseppina Bambace Saline, who migrated to the United States from Cannitello Reggio di Calabria, Italy, around 1904 and settled in Port Chester. Prudy attended Port Chester schools and graduated from Port Chester High School. She was a long-term parishioner of Our Lady of Mercy Church in Port Chester.

She married Joseph Samuel Sabia, also a native of Port Chester, on April 23, 1949. They raised their three daughters in Port Chester: Karen, Christine, and Joanne. Prudy raised her children and devoted much of her life to taking care of her youngest daughter, Joanne, who had many critical illnesses and became disabled. Prudy took Joanne to many states around the country to obtain the best medical care for her daughter. At one point, she was contemplating taking Joanne to Italy to see Padre Pio for a healing, only to hear that Padre Pio had recently passed away. Prudy also traveled three days per week, for countless years, to Boston and then to New Jersey to ensure her daughter Joanne had excellent care. Joanne passed away at the University of Rochester Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, awaiting a second kidney transplant on June 13, 1987. Burying your child has to be the worst heartache for a parent to endure.

Prudy was the owner of the Rye Beach Luncheonette in Rye, New York, for many years. She cooked her Italian food from scratch. She had many followers. In particular, her customers sought after her soups, chicken cutlets, lasagna, and meatballs. Prudy had numerous friends from the restaurant. Most who walked through the door became a friend. She just loved greeting her customers every day and catching up with them. She was truly happy and fulfilled in the restaurant business. She was a very generous person, sometimes to a fault. She gave away so much. She fed those of little means, gratis, who were in need of a meal. She would also drop off meals to those in need. After many years, she sold the restaurant to devote more time to medically assisting her daughter Joanne. In the years to follow, she became a real estate agent in Port Chester. Her altruistic traits followed her to the real estate business. She would work for the true benefit of her customers and honestly advise them rather than sell a house and make a much-needed commission.

But now, as she meets with Jesus, I’m sure Prudy is being rewarded for her charitable and unselfish acts during her lifetime. Prudy and her husband, Joe, contemplated a move to Florida. Unfortunately, her husband Joe’s life was quickly taken in a hit-and-run accident while he was crossing the street. Their plan to move to Florida together never materialized. Prudy’s daughter Christine was living in Florida. And this made Prudy’s transition to Florida a bit easier. She loved the lifestyle and warm weather in Florida. Although she didn’t spend much time at the beach when she relocated to Florida, in her younger days, she was an avid beach-goer and had a routine of packing up the car early in the morning with food and her three daughters to spend the day at Oakland Beach in Rye. She was joined at the beach by cousins, grandparents, and other extended family — close family enjoying time together and creating memories that would be long remembered. If it was a sunny day in the summer, you knew where to find her.

As Prudy became older, she moved into her daughter Christine’s house in Florida and lived there for the remainder of her life. As she became sick, her daughter Christine and granddaughter Stephanie took excellent care of her at home. They tended to her every need, around the clock, day after day. They made sure she was comfortable and well cared for. They desired for their mother and grandmother to remain at home surrounded by the love of family as she was declining. Prudy passed away with her daughter Christine at her side and her granddaughter Stephanie at her other side. She had a St. Padre Pio picture blanket on top of her bed covers to comfort her. She passed away in the afternoon during the 3 p.m. hour, the Hour of Divine Mercy. Karen is truly grateful for everything that her sister Christine and niece Stephanie did for her mother.

Prudy was predeceased by her daughter Joanne and her husband Joseph. She leaves her daughter Christine and son-in-law Joe (Florida). Her daughter Karen (Connecticut), granddaughter Stephanie, grandson John Wayne ( Florida), and grandson Joseph (Kari) Colorado. And also several great and great-great grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. She was one of a kind, and you were truly blessed to know her.

The gift of a Mass card will be greatly appreciated. Visitation was held on Jan. 3 at Craft Memorial Home, 40 Leicester Street, Port Chester, NY 10573. Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Jan 4 at Parish of Saint John Bosco (Our Lady of Mercy Church), 260 Westchester Avenue, Port Chester, NY. Interment followed at St. Mary’s Cemetery Rye Brook, NY.