Capt. Daniele Casazza Braham, USN, of Temecula, Calif., died on July 19. The cause was cancer. She was 47.
Braham was born on Jan. 22, 1979, to Jane (Napoli) and Edward Casazza, Jr., in Sharon, Conn. She grew up in Pine Plains and graduated from Stissing Mountain High School in 1997. She received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy, and graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science.
She was commissioned an ensign upon graduation and after several deployments became a member of the U.S. Navy’s then-newly formed human resources community. She graduated from the U.S. Naval War College’s College of Naval Warfare with a Master of Arts in national security and strategic studies in 2008.
Besides her parents, Braham is survived by her husband, Luke Braham, and their three children: Joseph Braham, Jacoby Braham and Giuliana Braham; a sister, Jennifer (John) Blackburn; a brother, Edward (Tiffany) Casazza; many nephews and nieces, and extended family members.
Visiting hours will be held at Peck and Peck Funeral Home in Pine Plains, and a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Pine Plains, at a date to be determined. Interment will be at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., at a later date.
Instead of flowers, the family asked for donations to support Dr. Tapan Kadia’s research into T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Donations can be made at gifts.mdanderson.org by selecting the option to designate a gift and entering “Dr. Kadia’s T-PLL research” in the comment box. The family also encouraged people to register as bone marrow donors through NMDP, formerly known as Be The Match, at nmdp.org.