A. Azzara Funeral Home

In the past fifteen years I have been assigned to Holy Rosary Parish, I have seen how Steven and Ryan and their staff treat each family as their own. This was especially true when my own father died of cancer at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. At 2AM, that Friday morning, the first call I made was to Steven Cognata and I could assure my mother, brothers and sisters that as a family we were in the best of hands, as many families have learned over the last one hundred years.

Steven and Ryan care for families with a special and unique ministry. They share this ministry, which is not a 9 to 5 job, a ministry which involves taking families from the darkness of death, sorrow and loss through wakes, funerals, burials and all the many small but important details of these important milestones.

Steven and Ryan's concern for others extends beyond the funeral home walls and is evident in the many community and civic activities which they have underwritten and supported over the years.

All of us at Holy Rosary truly appreciate all that the Azzara Family has done to make our community a better place to live. We thank Steven and Ryan specifically for demonstrating, day in and day out, a living definition of compassion: showing mercy and giving aid and support so generously.

Rev. Stephen Challman
Parochial Vicar of Holy Rosary Church