Laura M. Drollinger passed away March 3, 2024. Laura was born July 9, 1926 in Brooklyn, NY to Charles and Laura Tardi. The family later moved to Bellerose, NY, where through her brother Joseph, Laura met and married the boy next door, George Drollinger Jr. Prior to her marriage, Laura was employed as a medical lab technologist for The French Hospital in Manhattan, NY.

Following George’s discharge from the U.S. Army in 1953, the couple moved to Cochecton Center, NY, where they built a house and raised three children. It was there that Laura elevated homemaking to an art, as she resumed her earlier career at Hamilton Avenue Hospital in Monticello, NY. When a work-related illness forced her retirement from health care in 1973, she spent the next 20-plus years in business for herself as owner and operator of Main Street Liquors in Narrowsburg, NY.
Volunteerism and travel throughout the United States and Europe filled her golden years. After studying Native American culture firsthand, Laura explored her own cultural heritage in Sicily, and then went on to see the rest of Europe, documenting her travels in a series of scrapbooks created in company with the Cochecton Center Scrapbookers. Laura served on the council of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Narrowsburg, was a member of the Narrowsburg Chamber of Commerce, volunteered at the Narrowsburg branch of the Western Sullivan Public Library, and assisted at innumerable blood drives in Sullivan and Wayne counties.

Predeceased by her husband in 1993 and grandson Justin Drollinger in 1984, survivors include daughter Linda Drollinger of Lake Huntington, NY; son Andrew Drollinger of Athens, TN; and daughter Nancy Krasinski of Houston, TX; granddaughters Jessica Luster of Montgomery, AL and Andrea Sullivan of Rocky Point, NY; great-grandchildren Claire Sullivan of Rocky Point, NY; Keller and Deven Collier, and Alexander and Savanna Myers, all of Montgomery, AL; and great-great-grandchildren Lakeleigh, Harleigh and McClain Collier of Montgomery, AL.

A graveside service will take place at Laurel Cemetery in Cochecton Center at 1 p.m. on March 23. Memorial donations can be made online to Houston Hospice at www.houstonhospice.org/donate/ or to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church at PO Box 74, Narrowsburg, NY 12764.