Esther Mary Cacciatore, age 92, of Massapequa, New York died peacefully surrounded by family Saturday, June 11^th 2016, at the home of her daughter in Paupack, Pennsylvania where she had been visiting for the past several months. Esther was born May 13^th 1924, in Belle Vernon, PA, the daughter of the late Samuel Oliverio and Mary (Caputo) Oliverio, both hardworking immigrants of an arranged marriage that built a successful and fruitful life for themselves and their eight children after arriving penniless from Italy and naturalizing as US citizens. Though a graduate of Belle Vernon High School in 1943, Esther had already split a number of years between western Pennsylvania and New York City, where her parents and many members of her family had located for business. The Oliverio’s would come to settle in Cedarhurst, NY. In 1946, Esther married John Cacciatore. The couple moved to Massapequa in 1957 where they would raise their two daughters. In the following years, Esther was blessed with five grandchildren (“I wanted one son and I was blessed instead with five grandsons”) and delighted as they grew. Widowed in 1991, she remained an active member of her community and church. Esther was a woman of unfathomable generosity and lightness of being. Such complete selflessness and compassion are so rarely found combined in pure form, yet that gentleness of soul was Esther in her most genuine. Esther was preceded in death by her husband John Cacciatore; all seven of her brothers and sisters: Theresa, Catherine, Samuel, Margie, Anthony, Paul and Msgr. Francis Oliverio; one nephew: Richard Kampe; two nieces: Linda Diehl and Justine Niecharz. Esther is survived by her two daughters: Donna Johnson of Wantagh, NY and Christina Markgraf of Paupack, PA; five grandsons: Jeremy Johnson of Orlando, FL, Joshua Johnson of Wantagh, NY, Richard Markgraf and his wife Erin of Riverdale, NY, Ryan Markgraf of Brooklyn, NY, and Jonathan Markgraf of Hawley, PA; one sister-in-law: Linda Oliverio; three nephews: Paul Kampe and his wife Julija, Paul Oliverio, and Paul Oliverio Jr. and his wife Kim; and five nieces: Cynthia Barker, Joyce-Ann Minichello and her husband Frank, Judy King and her husband Vincent, Susan Clark, and Rosemary Tirolo; many great-nephews and great nieces; many great-great nephews and great-great nieces; and countless friends. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be sent to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.