Funeral services were held at the Massapequa Funeral Home, Massapequa park, Tuesday, October 28, 2003 for 102-year-old Lyndall Corali who had lived in the Massapequas for 52 years. Burial was in Pinelawn Cemetery.

Mrs. Corali died shortly before midnight Friday, October 21, 2003 at Broadlawn Manor Nursing Home, Amityville. Until she was admitted there in June, she had lived in Massapequa or Massapequa Park since 1951. The cause of death was heart failure, said her son, Bob Hollingsworth.

Shortly after she was born in Jersey City on June 18, 1901, her parents moved to Bellport and then East Patchogue, where her father operated a dairy farm. She began school at the one-room Swan River Schoolhouse in East Patchogue. She visited the school shortly after it was opened as a town museum in December of 2002. Town officials said they believed then that she was the oldest living person to have attended class there.

At the start of her junior year at Patchogue High School, her parents moved to Massachusetts, where she graduated from Newton High School. In 1922, she married Lawrence Hollingsworth with whom she had two surviving sons. A third son died as an infant.

Two years after Hollingsworth’s death in 1936, she married John Corali of Farmingdale, who was working in Massachusetts at the time. In 1940, they moved to Farmingdale and then to Massapequa in 1951, where they bought a gift shop on Merrick Road that she ran for six years. In 1957, they moved to Massapequa Park. She lived there until she was admitted to Broadlawn in June.

In addition to Bob Hollingsworth, a retired Newsday editor, Mrs. Corali is survived by another son, Richard Corali of Bradenton, Florida; a daughter, Joan Eagar of Massapequa; nine grandchildren and 14 great-greandchildren. Her husband, John, died in 1995.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that a memorial be sent to the heart fund or any charity of choice.