Mrs. Violet Angelina Sabia

June 17, 1922 - December 4, 2020

On Friday, December 4th, Violet Angelina Sabia passed away at the age of 98 A native of New York, She spent her childhood split between Beechurst, Queens and Livingston Manor, NY. She graduated from Bayside High School, Queens, New York. She lived in Old Bethpage NY and South Salem NY before spending the last seven years of her life in Baltimore, MD. Her first job was riveting together pontoons for warplanes during WWII at the Edo Aircraft factory in College Point, NY. After the war she went on to processing microfilm for the government at Recordak, a subsidiary of Kodak. Violet later became a licensed realtor, and had worked various retail jobs, including Macy’s, B. Altman’s, and Bloomingdales. She began her working life at the end of the Great Depression and it was ended by being laid off at the beginning of the Great Recession; she was 87. She bred, trained and showed poodles. She was one of the first to import apricot miniature poodles to the U.S. She loved her poodles, and, after she stopped showing them, always kept at least one as a companion. Violet always had several DIY home projects going. She had the courage to knock a gaping hole in the wall of an almost new house, armed with not much more than a how-to magazine article and basic hand tools, to make the alterations she felt necessary. Violet was preceded in death by her husband of 49 years, Vito J. Sabia in 2001. She is survived by her only son, Thomas Sabia, Baltimore, MD Given the limitations imposed during the current pandemic, there will be no viewing or public funeral service. It is expected to have a graveside memorial service at a later date in South Salem, NY.