Emily Ruscitto Underhill

GUILDERLAND – Emily Ruscitto Underhill, lost her battle with Multiple Myeloma on October 2, 2016. She had been battling Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia and breast cancer in addition. She now rests peacefully in the arms of her Lord. Emily was the youngest of seven children born to Emil and Nicholetta (Sarno) Ruscitto in Cleveland, Ohio in 1938. Upon the untimely death of her mother in 1940, she was raised by her paternal aunt and her husband, Donato and Julia (Ruscitto) Matricardi in Schenectady. She was a graduate of Nott Terrace High School class of 1956. After graduation she was employed by General Electric and was a member of their Quarter Century Club. She retired in 1999, as an administrative assistant from the G.E. Research and Development. In 1963 she married Robert B. Underhill and together they raised their three children in West Glenville where they lived for 38 years. A proud American, Emily fulfilled her lifelong dream of visiting Pearl Harbor with her husband and traveling to England, Scotland and Italy. She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. Her happiest times were spent with her children and grandchildren who lovingly called her 'Bubbie'; and cooking the traditional Italian Christmas Eve fish dinner. Emily was predeceased by her siblings, Carmela, Philomena, Nicholetta, Julia, Bernadine and Gaetano and a nephew, John William Underhill. She is survived by her husband Robert B. Underhill; children, Julie (Dr. Michael) Prezioso, of Burnt Hills, John (Debbie Gordon) Underhill, of Williston, VT and Mary Underhill, of Guilderland; grandchildren, Matthew, Elizabeth, James, Jack, Ryan, Ellen, Mia and Jacob; brother and sister-in-law, William and Noreen Underhill; 25 nieces, nephews and their families as well as many devoted friends. The family would like to gratefully thank Emily's caregiver's, Ann Bradshaw and Paula Griffin and her oncologist Dr. Courtney Bellomo, for the compassion, care, kindness and dignity shown our Emily and our entire family. Services will be held on Friday at 9 am from the Rossi & Ditoro Funeral Home, 501 Union Street and then to St. Anthony's Church, where a Mass will be celebrated at 10 am. Interment will follow in St. Anthony's Cemetery, Glenville. Relatives and friends are invited and may call at the Rossi & Ditoro Funeral Home on Thursday from 5 to 8 pm. Memorial contributions may be made in Emily's memory to Community Hospice at www.communityhospice.org/donate or to Myeloma Research at www.themmrf.org.