Amy Laurie Steinfeld

Amy Laurie Steinfeld, 77, of The Villages, FL, passed away on June 15, 2025. Amy was born in New York, New York on April 25, 1948, loved and raised by her mother, Sylvia (Fostoff) and stepfather Milton Schlanger. Amy valued education and insisted on going to college at a time when many women did not. She studied Education, and in 1969 she become a high school business teacher. 1969 was also the year Amy married her beloved husband Joel. She was a lifelong learner who went on for her Masters Degree and continued to repeatedly reinvent her professional career through the years, later becoming an elementary school computer teacher and then a media specialist. She was passionate, creative with her teaching styles and she touched the lives of so many students.
Amy was gregarious and affable, with many lifelong friends. She enjoyed spending her time in Florida with groups like The Villages Kibitzers and The Borscht Belt Club. She loved playing Mahjong with her friends, she played a solid game of tennis and she even dabbled in pickleball in later years. Her grandchildren were the light of her life and she spent countless hours happily bonding with them through their adventures out, playing card games, reading stories and watching movies together. Amy was the toughest yet also the kindest and most gentle soul you could ever wish to meet. Her compassion was influential to those around her. She will be missed dearly and remembered fondly for her dedication to her family and friends, always wanting the best for those she loved and offering genuine and unconditional love and support.
Amy will be forever loved and cherished by her husband of over 55 years, Joel Steinfeld, her children; Stacy Snyder, David (Lori) Steinfeld and Jodi (Jeffrey) Gall, and eleven loving grandchildren: Jacob, Madeline, Ava, Isaac, Jonathan and Benjamin Snyder, Maya, Ryder and Tatum Steinfeld and Eliana and Reeve Gall, and a great grandchild, Bennett.
Donations in Amy's memory can be made to The Michael J. Fox Foundation, The Lewy Body Dementia Association or The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Carrying out an act of kindness toward another in any way you choose will also help her memory live on.