Donna Pritula Passes Away at Home in Scarsdale

Donna Rose (Balduino) Pritula, born August 28, 1956, died peacefully at her home in Scarsdale, New York surrounded by her family, on May 21, 2025 after a long and courageous fight with cancer. She was the beloved daughter of Joseph and Rose Balduino, who predeceased her.

Donna was born in the Bronx and raised in New Jersey among a loving extended family. Her immediate family and her many aunts, uncles, cousins, and second-cousins provided a constant source of joy and strength in her early years. Throughout her life she placed family above all other things in the world.
After attending Bergenfield High School, Donna matriculated at Princeton University, where she majored in English. She was a universally upbeat and socially engaging classmate and friend to all she encountered during college.

Following her college graduation, Donna returned to New Jersey to assist in the care of her ill father, while also commuting to Greenwich, Connecticut to begin her career in corporate communications. After a decade of successful corporate work and after marrying Michael Pritula, Donna left the professional world to raise her children in Scarsdale, which would become her home for the last 40 years of her life, and where she became an active member of the community.

Donna loved to travel with family and friends while pursuing her hobby of photography, and did so with a sense of wonder and awe about the places she experienced. Her warmth, kindness, humor, and smile were infectious. She cared deeply for others. As a result, she was a loyal, lifelong friend to many from different phases of her life. She collected friends easily.

Donna was predeceased by her loving brother William. She is survived by her children, Michael and his partner Jessica Currier, Andrew, and Christine, who were her pride and joy, her brother Michael and his wife Lynne, her sister-in-law Cathy Balduino, her twelve nieces and nephews and their spouses, her grandnieces and nephews, who she adored, and her cousins, who were her oldest and best friends.

A wake will be held from 4pm to 8pm on Tuesday May 27 at the Edwin Bennett Funeral Home (824 Scarsdale Avenue, Scarsdale), and a funeral service will be held at 10am on Wednesday May 28 at St. Pius X Church (91 Secor Rd, Scarsdale).

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that any donations be made in Donna’s name to The Guiding Eyes for the Blind (www.guidingeyes.org).