Saratoga Springs, NY - Susanne Petito-Egielski passed away Monday, February 7, 2022. She was born on November 17, 1951 in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Queens.

After graduating Queens College, she was awarded a scholarship and fellowship from NYU to study in France. After completing courses at the Sorbonne in Paris, she received a Master's Degree in French Literature from NYU. She then embarked on a teaching career in NYC and Long Island public schools teaching French language and culture and Italian to middle school and high school students.

Numerous students said she was the best teacher they ever had.  Her teaching career was cut short by a bus accident on a French Club field trip with East Meadow school students returning from Montreal. Forced to retire on disability, she became a caregiver to her father, mother, several aunts and uncles over the next 20 years. During that time, she began to write and, after moving to Saratoga Springs with her husband Robert in 2008, completed her first novel, Nelson's Castle: A Bronte Fairy Tale, which was self-published in 2013. She was also an avid student of classical piano and Argentinian Tango, and a proud member of the Principessa Elena Society of Saratoga Springs.

Susanne is survived by her husband Robert and elder brother Ernest. She is predeceased by her parents Ernest and Marie Petito.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00am on Thursday, February 17 at St. Clement's Church, 231 Lake Avenue, Saratoga Springs.

Online remembrances may be made at www.burkefuneralhome.com.