Ann DeBlasio

Ann DeBlasio (legal death on January 3, 1969) was the third person cryopreserved by the Cryonics Society of New York.

Cryopreservation
She was 43 years old when she legally died of breast cancer at New York University Hospital in Manhattan. At the pronouncement of her legal death, she was packed in water ice at the request of her husband, Nick DeBlasio. Then she was moved to the hospital's refrigerated morgue. Hours later, she was taken by mortician Fred Horn and CSNY's Saul Kent to the basement of St. James Funeral Home, where she was perfused, cooled, and packed in dry ice. There she remained for seven months in a short-term containment unit.

On August 15, 1969, she was transferred to a long-term, liquid nitrogen-filled storage vessel in CSNY's facility at Washington Memorial Park Cemetery in Corum, Long Island. There she was placed in close proximity to Steven Mandell, the first patient of CSNY.

On August 17, 1971, she was removed from the care of CSNY and relocated to Mt. Holiness Cemetery in Butler, New Jersey. Nick DeBlasio and Robert Nelson had constructed a long-term, underground facility in there.

In November 1972, Dorothy Labin was placed in the same cryocapsule with Ann DeBlasio. They remained in the facility until July 1980, when their decomposed and refrozen bodies were removed and buried.