Obituary of Gina J. Alvarez

Gina J. Alvarez of Breezy Point New York, died peacefully at home Friday, December 12^th, 2025, at the age of 61. Gina was born on January 25, 1964, in Clarksburg, West Virginia, and raised in a loving and vibrant home surrounded by the strength and love of her parents, grandparents and extended family.

Gina left West Virginia to attend college at New York University where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. A talented and accomplished life-long artist and writer, Gina approached life with wonder and curiosity, intelligence, and an appreciation for all the beauty around her. Curious, reflective and thoughtful, Gina was an avid reader and thorough researcher. She could spend long days and nights working on a problem, deeply involved in solving the task at hand, and found great pleasure finding creative and aesthetic solutions. Appreciating the vibrancy that life in the city afforded her, Gina enjoyed long visits strolling an art exhibition, museum, or gallery, or exploring a neighborhood in the city she called home. Gina’s commitment to lifelong learning is an integral part of who she was, and an inspiration to those who knew her.  

Friendly, kind, and welcoming, Gina had an open heart full of compassion. She made friends readily. Those who remember Gina will not be able to help but recall her warm and ready smile, her sweet disposition and generosity of spirit, her humor and wit and easy laugh, and the unconditional love and acceptance she held for all those who she encountered. Gina cared deeply for those she loved, and she expressed her love in how she listened and gave generously of herself to support the interests, perspectives, hopes, and needs of others. She believed in doing what is right and went above and beyond to ensure the well-being of those in need and for whom she could make a difference.

In 2013, Gina married her life-long partner of 40 years, Jeanne M. Annarumma, with whom she lived with tenderness and devotion. Gina’s love and unwavering support is the foundation of the life and career they built and carried them through both good times and the challenges they faced. She approached their life’s journey with strength and patience, modesty and gratitude. Grief is the price we pay for love.

Gina walked in beauty; she carried herself with grace and dignity and her inner beauty radiated in all her days. She will be greatly missed. Gina is survived by her loving wife, Jeanne, who cherished her, her nieces Alisa O’Neil, Jamie O’Neil, Alessandra Torati, and Gabrielle Marx Heaton, and their respective children, her sisters-in-law Michele Marx and Beth Ann O’Neil, and her brother-in-law Robert Marx, all of whom she loved. Gina’s beloved parents Sara Elliott and Manuel Alvarez, her grandmother Susie Romano, brother Francis (Frank) Owen O’Neil, III, stepfather John Elliott, and mother-in-law Anne C. Annarumma, predecease her.

Visitation will be Thursday, December 18 from 6:00 – 9:00 PM at Marine Park Funeral Home, 3024 Quentin Road, Brooklyn, NY.

Interment will be in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn on Friday, December 19 at 1:00 PM. Family will gather at the funeral home by 11:00 AM and the funeral procession will depart by 12:00 PM.