Sandra Ingraffia, co-owner of San-Dee Lanes, dies

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Sandra Ingraffia, a talented bowler and a co-owner of Malverne’s San-Dee Lanes bowling center, died August 23 of liver cancer. She was 79.

Ingraffia, a Bayville resident and formerly of Great Neck, co-owned San-dee Lanes with business partner, Kathy Ribaudo since the late 1980s, and made it into a state-of-the-art facility that had incorporated computerized scoring and a lighting system when those improvements had just begun to become widely popular. The two ladies, who had bowled together prior to becoming business partners, prided themselves not only on the physical appearance of their bowling center, but on being part of the community.

“She was a real people person,” said Malverne Mayor Patricia McDonald. “She was always very kind and helpful anytime we asked her for any help with different events in the village. She will be missed.”

Ribaudo said she and Ingraffia wanted to sell the business due to Ingraffia’s health, and that San-dee Lanes is still currently up for sale.

“Sandy was a mainstay in the community,” said Henry Stampfel, owner of the Malverne Cinema. “It’s unique that owners of a bowling alley like that are in the business for as long like they were. It’s a small town, but they the two of them really managed it very well. From a business standpoint, we’re very proud of them,” he said.

Ingraffia was the wife of the late John, loving mother of Christine, cherished grandmother of Marissa and Nicole Wolert and sister of the late Fred Cotey. She was interred at the Locust Valley Cemetery.