Gail Valinoti
1950 – 2021
Gail Valinoti was born on December15th in Brooklyn, New York, as the second oldest of six sisters to Marie and Michael Cirrincione. She grew up in Brooklyn and moved to Long Island. Gail graduated, Hofstra University and Old Westbury College with a Bachelor of Science Degrees in Education and Accounting while raising her son, Christopher. After meeting the love of her life and being wed. They moved to Las Vegas, where she continued to work as a tax consultant.
Gail was fierce and bold with a big personality and an unmistakable voice and laugh. Intensely passionate about the people she loved. Gail was loyal and protective but, most of all, incredibly generous, and giving with the biggest heart, always helping anyone she could.
She was a force to be reckoned with but, to know her was to love her. When not talking on the phone with her sisters, she could be found winning Royal Flushes at the Rampart, shopping online, or watching the Wheel of Fortune which she was a winning contestant in 2014!
Gail (née Cirrincione) Valinoti passed away at home in Las Vegas on December 1st, 2021. She was preceded in death by her son, Christopher and sisters: Joy Vaccaro and Janet Cirrincione.
She is survived by her devoted husband, Al, stepdaughters: Ann Marie Cataldi; Roxanne Valinoti, and their families, including her only grandson, Hunter.
She will lovingly be remembered by her three living sisters and their husbands, Carol Fregara (Ronnie), Michele Sclafani (Sal) and Maria Cirrincione-Lamina (Jerry) including her 13 nieces and nephews along with 18 great nieces and nephews. Gail will be deeply missed by her, Chihuahua, Honey.
Relatives and friends are invited to her Memorial Service on Saturday, January 29th ,2022 at St. Anthony of Padua RC Church, 6350 N. Fort Apache Road at 1:00 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Gail’s Memory “In Memory of” to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or at www.stjude.org.