Moloney, Helen (Dorothy) nee Ellis passed away peacefully in Flager Beach, FL on February 16, 2025. She was 89. She was formerly from Central Islip, NY The beloved Mother to James (Joanie) Moloney, Linda (Victor) Farinha, John (Isobel), Kevin (Donna), Brian (Rosie) Moloney, Elizabeth (Roger) Reilly and Alicia Webb. Cherished Nana to Nick (Jane) Garwig, Bryan (Cheyenne) Garwig, Kristen Garwig, Katey Moloney, Steven Jackson, Shannon Farinha, Colleen Farinha, Nicole (Jacob) Johnson, John, Kelly, Ryan, Patrick, Connor, Justin (Cate) Moloney, Erin (Nick) Mandros, Brandon Moloney, and Marissa Webb. She was also a great grandmother to Connor & Liam Garwig, Taylor & Vincent Johnson, Tyler Moloney and Macie Crawford. She is also survived by many nieces and nephews. She shared part of her journey with her former husband Jack Moloney. She was predeceased by her sister Madeline Bolinder, her brothers, Robert, Donald and Joseph Ellis. She began her career as an aide in Central Islip State Hospital, and Riverhead Schools and as a secretary at Suffolk County Water Authority in Westhampton Beach where she retired. She then moved to Danbury, CT and was a lunch aid at Consolidated School in New Fairfield. Later on, she moved to a Flagler Beach community where she enjoyed warm sunshine and lots of friends. She loved to play cards and did so up to the day she passed. Our Mom loved her family, and she missed talking on the phone to her brothers and sisters and her friends.

Our memories of our Mom are many. She would take us to Robert Moses and the ocean with a loaf of wonder bread filled with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches along with a gallon of milk. We had a home on Hogg Mountain Road in Fleishman NY. She would drive us up there by herself in I think was the first 12 passenger Van. We would all have to sit in the back seat and jump up and down to get up the mountain in the snow. We had a lot of company up there with our cousins and friends and lots of shenanigans. We would go skiing, sledding, snow mobiling, and ride horses. We also were put to work mending fences. Our brother Jim, at a very young age, would drive us kids in an old truck with no doors around our fields. She taught the young kids to ski and put the rest of us in lessons at the Catskill Ski area. Our Mom even though she was tiny and shy was also fearless and tough. She could drive a horse trailer filled with horses and drive over the Shelter Island Ferry to Fox Hunt. She loved driving the buggy and sleigh with her horse Blarney. She loved to Fox Hunt with the Smithtown Hunt Club.

She loved to go on vacation with her family. We enjoyed Disney, the Outer Banks, Montauk and visiting her sons on Long Island, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. She would drive to her daughters in Vermont and Ohio. Mom also enjoyed time in Vermont with her son Kevin. She would travel quite a bit going the distance for some of his events. She was known to his friends as Iron Dotty. She was very happy when our brother Jim and his family moved near her in Florida and our sister Alicia was able to move in with her during COVID. When living in Danbury she was near her daughter Linda who was so grateful she was with her. She was able to see her granddaughters every day at school and would take her grandson to soccer and baseball practice. Their friends would call her “Puff Nana” because she let them play their music on her radio. Our Mom was very much loved and everyone that knew her will miss her. Our hearts are broken but we celebrate her knowing that she is now in heaven with her Mom, Dad and brothers and sisters who I am sure were all waiting at the gate for her. Mass: St. John of God Church, Monday, February 24, 2025 10:30am Central Islip, NY Burial following at St. John of God Cemetery, Central Islip, NY In lieu of flowers please contribute to your local hospice or charity of your choice.