4 Obituary
BROOKLYN WEEKLY, JUNE 16, 2019
BY ROSE ADAMS
Anthony DiMango, a longtime
resident of Dyker
Heights and a revered oral
surgeon, died on May 31.
He was 95 years old.
DiMango reigned
over Brooklyn
dentistry, working
as a surgeon
and a professor
for more than 50
years. In addition
to his private
practice in Bay
Ridge, DiMango
served as a senior
vice president, chief of
dentistry, and co-director
of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
at Lutheran Medical Center
(LMC), now NYU Lagone,
for decades.
DiMango also taught oral
surgery at Columbia Prebystrian
and NYU Lutheran,
and was an active
member of several
dental societies,
including the
2nd district
dental society,
the Greater
New York Dental
Meeting,
and the Italian
Dental Society.
DiMango was
born in Flatbush
on May 21, 1924. In
1944, he was drafted to
serve in World War II, where
he received medical training
and worked with wounded soldiers.
Upon returning
from the war,
DiMango attended
Fordham University
and graduated from
the Georgetown University
School of
Dentistry in 1953. He
received his training
in oral surgery
at King’s County
Hospital.
“He was brilliant,
warm, caring,” said
his daughter, Justice
Patricia DiMango.
In 1950, DiMango married
Mafalda Coccaro, a longtime
community and education advocate
in Dyker Heights who
died in August 2018. The couple
gave birth to two daughters, Patricia
and Joanne.
“He never made me feel that
because I was a girl I couldn’t
do something,” Patricia Di-
Mango said. “I have to attribute
my success in life to him.”
She added that DiMango’s
legacy will live on not only as
an inf luential educator, but as
a kind and well-grounded role
model.
“He taught me to love what
you’re doing and do what you
love,” Patricia DiMango said.
“He was the quintessential
gentleman.”
‘He was brilliant, warm, caring’
Dyker Heights luminary and oral surgeon,
Anthony DiMango, dies at 95
Anthony DiMango, who died on May 31 at 91, was known as “the quintessential gentleman.”