Charles Sr. is a master craftsman in the lost art of manually sketching and drafting stencils, which form the basis of every monument. He can create from scratch and carve in stone anything that you can imagine. He has been designing monuments since he was 13 years old and still relishes every minute of the process. Influenced by his grandfather, a master letterist, and mentored by his uncle, he drafts, designs, sets, consults, repairs, and is involved in every aspect of the creation and installation of stone memorials.

His commissioned work, including the historic Thurgood Marshall commemoration in front of town hall, may be seen throughout the region. He also does pro bono work for groups who have been left in charge of maintaining otherwise abandoned or dilapidated cemeteries (Civil War Cemetery in Airmont, Newburg Catholic Cemetery, Stony Point Cemetery). An active member of the Rotary Club community service organization, he also frequently helps groups like the Eagle scouts (see bench dedication to firemen here).

Charles Sr. has been sought out by churches, cemeteries, and shrines/seminaries all over the region to employ his proprietary method for reconditioning old marble statuary. The result is a finish so durable it actually resists weather and maintains its beauty longer than when it was new.

The ability to help people create what they have in mind and what they don’t know they have in mind is a gift he shares graciously.

He has led the company with a passionate leadership style, perfecting to create designs unavailable from standard templates. Through his dedication to the craft, the company has been honored with several coveted industry awards for performance and customer satisfaction (Rock of Ages).

Charles Minozzi Sr. has served on multiple industry boards, including Westchester Monument Builders, Associated Monument Builders (New York metropolitan area), and New York State Monument Builders, where he has served as president.

Anthony Minozzi is a compassionate and exacting leader who cares for every employee and client as if they were his own family. Like his father, brother, and uncles, he shares a lifetime of industry expertise gleaned from the rare experience of learning the trade as a child in the family business.

This knowledge ensures that each customized monument comes together using precise skills and careful orchestration. Peers describe Anthony as uncommonly conscientious, making sure that each monument is crafted to perfection. This includes assessing the quality of the granite and overseeing design detail while always reflecting the artisanship present for eight generations of his family and instilled in him since he was a child.

Anthony was groomed in a very disciplined work environment where quality came first in every case, no matter what. This strong work ethic taught him that the monuments made by Travis Monuments Group carry the family name and that nothing is worth compromising what generations of Minozzis have painstakingly built. This awareness brings an unwavering navigational foundation for the decisions he comes up against every day.

While attending college at Long Island University and earning his bachelor’s degree with a minor in Psychology, life events changed the course of Anthony’s education. In 1999, his mother was diagnosed with cancer and passed away almost a year later. Anthony decided to channel his deep loss into action by minoring in Human Loss and Bereavement so he could help others through the grieving process. After that, he earned his master’s degree in Business Administration with honors and later became a certified Rock of Ages Memorial Counselor.

Anthony has been appointed to manage projects that have spanned past Presidents, prominent New York, New Jersey, and New York City mayors, shrines and seminaries, townships, and police departments in New York and New Jersey. He and his father, Charles Minozzi, have been entrusted to design and construct more mausoleums and columbaria in Rockland cemeteries than anyone else in the area.

He has served on multiple industry boards, including Westchester Monument Builders, Associated Monument Builders (New York Metropolitan area), and New York State Monument Builders, where he has served as President and is currently Membership Chair.

Alan Genee’s previous positions were widely varied, underscoring his ability in many areas. He was a Design Consultant for private wine cellars and a Director of Operations for a large New Jersey trucking company hauling high-end appliances. He also directed a large Sales and Customer Service force for a wine storage accessory business, overseeing product development and marketing to a customer base of 1.4 million consumers. In addition, he holds a degree is in Psychology.

Because of this unique array of skills, he is perfectly suited to his position of Operations Manager at Travis Monuments. Alan oversees the day-to-day operations of the business, managing duties as diverse as scheduling setting, supervising the completion of inscriptions in the cemeteries and ordering all the granite needed to create the monuments.

Alan and Hudson Valley Memorial Group Vice President Anthony Minozzi have known each other since their high school days. Anthony says Alan brings friendship and loyalty to the company and often does not leave the office until early morning out of dedication to ensuring every single detail is on track.

For his part, Alan echoes the sentiment, saying, “The most enjoyable part of working at Travis Monuments is that it is a family-owned and operated business. Working with [Anthony], his father, his wife and cousin are like working with my own family. Families that come into our offices can see it, as well. They know they are working with a family that cares about their memorial as much as they do,” Alan says.

Because of his tremendous skill and loyalty in many areas, Alan fills a unique leadership role in the company, created specifically for him over time. He is often asked by the company owners to participate in completing custom or highly complex designs because there is no question he will rise to the task.

Because of his strong ability to empathize, Alan also works as a memorial consultant, bringing a high level of sensitivity and intuition to the role. He believes that the work is a very important responsibility, one he does not take lightly. Alan is aware that families arrive in a very emotional, vulnerable time in their lives, and they are looking for someone who can be understanding and trustworthy.

In his own words, “My previous experience has gained me an appreciation for the importance of understanding customers, connecting with them and not only earning their trust but exceeding their expectations,” Alan says. “I take great enjoyment in meeting with families and assisting them in designing monuments for their loved ones.” He considers assisting a family in memorializing the most important people in their lives an honor.

Alan brings compassion to every family he serves, and his background helps him understand a wide range of different families at their time of need. He is passionate about helping families design fitting monuments for their loved ones, especially in the realm of pre-planning, where he listens to his customers’ wishes and guides them with uncommon kindness, making a difficult topic both natural and comfortable.

In multiple areas of the business, Alan shines and consistently shows a true dedication to his profession.

As an IT professional, Joseph helps the company continue to improve customer experience with graphics technology, rendering, and overall integrated systems assistance. He’s always there and eager to jump in and lend a hand wherever he can. Joseph has been a technology “wizard” since he was a child. At a very young age, he used to help his dad in installing and servicing electronics in his family’s TV Electronic and repair business.

Joseph adds a great complementary skill set to our team, leveraging it to consult, guide, and integrate various software and technology to improve customer experience at Travis Monuments. However, his skill does not stop there, he is helpful in the field and just about anywhere we need help. He’s like family and has grown up around the trade since he was a child.

At the young age of 13, Joseph lost his dad to cancer, which gave him a passion for helping people going through the painful experience of losing a loved one. This drives him to always look for and find ways to help families memorialize a life.

Joseph cares deeply for the environment, owning an electric vehicle and looking for ways to minimize our carbon footprint. With technology, efficiency, and other strategies, Joseph keeps us on the cutting edge of today’s hi-tech world while looking ahead for ways to improve in the future.

Charles Minozzi Jr. brings expertise garnered from over 30 years as a construction foreman to assist in the design and to oversee complex projects that on the surface appear insurmountable. A team player and a master supervisor, he ensures that even the most difficult and elaborate projects go according to plan and schedule.

Raised in the family trade at a young age, he employs this creative expertise in addition to his added construction knowledge to help families memorialize a loved one. His construction knowledge is leveraged not only in memorial work but in restorations of memorials and mausoleums and commercial granite applications like signage. In a recent project, the team had a slab of granite over 7 feet long and needed to fit it into an existing curved wall. This meant that the granite piece had to be curved to the exact same slight imperfections as in the original structure so it would fit. The margin for error can be non-existent on projects like this, so he -and the rest of the company- is grateful for his background in construction.

It helps him sleep better at night knowing he helped someone accomplish something that maybe they would not have been able to without him. He is always cognizant when he is installing a stone memorial or fixing a statue, that “this is for someone’s mom or dad, or someone’s spouse or sibling, someone loves this memorial.” He cares for your stone memorial in the same way he would for that of his own family.

A brave giver of his time and heart, Charles Minozzi, Jr. is a volunteer firefighter for Hastings-on-Hudson and has been for over 22 years. He loves the camaraderie that is shared with fellow volunteers. He is grateful that his family monument business has been able to contribute to various firehouse projects in the tri-state area. A proud native of the village of Hastings on Hudson, he feels it is a way for him to give back to the community.

“In the family monument business, we work hard — and that can be difficult at times; But I enjoy that everyone I work with is in it together. I feel like you can’t go wrong if you treat every project you’re on as if it were for your own family. And that is exactly what I do. I’ll sometimes sit back and look at what we’re making and ask myself, ‘Is that how I think is the best way to do this?’ And I love that I can always pull my father or my brother in, and we can talk about what we would do differently, and while we don’t always agree, I have to say the customer always benefits! I like that we all put our heart first. It keeps us aligned in our goals.”

As a highly valued member of the Travis Monuments team, Angela is dedicated to keeping business running smoothly through her exacting attention to detail, strong work ethic, and ability to stay on schedule.

She handles accounts payable and receivable, payroll, general accounting, keeping careful records, maintaining confidentiality, and staying current with vendors.

Committed to excellence regardless of what it takes, Angela displays tremendous ownership of each of her projects, often staying late into the night to make sure everything is complete and correct.

At the same time, her remarkable gifts go beyond her vital accounting role. A special generosity of spirit allows Angela to gracefully put families first. Talented at anticipating people’s needs and making them feel special, she has lovingly built a community network of family and friends that, in turn, allows her to expand her circle of support.
The first of her family to be born in America, Angela learned about business from an early age from her father, whose commitment and high level of responsibility to his electronics service and repair shop became fundamental to her character. As Angela spent time helping him, she gained the insight and understanding that now acts as her compass.

In the ninth grade, Angela met Anthony Minozzi, and later, the two spent much of their high school and college years with each other‘s families. Their experiences are parallel in that they both come from incredibly hardworking Italian-American families with a profound dedication to quality work, personal integrity, and a focus on relationships.

After Angela and Anthony were married, she held positions at Wine Enthusiast Companies, starting with Accounting Clerk. She was quickly promoted to the Accounts Receivable/Collections position and, soon after, the main Staff Accountant position, where she reported to the Controller. As the company grew and her employers recognized her unique skills with people, she held the position of Human Resources Manager. After ten years, Angela decided to pause her career as she raised their three beloved children: two boys and a girl.

As the children grew older and Angela considered working outside her home again, the Accountant position became available at Travis Monuments. She was excited at the thought of joining her husband and being part of the family business, as she had as a child.

Whenever possible, she likes to bring her children to visit the office so they can learn about the business and help their father and grandfather. She hopes they gain a deeper understanding of the dedication, responsibility, and respect she learned from her own father years ago.

Floriana is a cherished and vital part of the Travis Monument Group team. As Central Office Manager, Floriana keeps our central location in Nyack going, doing everything and anything she can to help operations run smoothly. Our central location serves as “command center” for our various sister locations and Floriana is right there at the helm, day after day, ensuring seamless integration. Whether she’s orchestrating the timing of highly detailed facets of the monument making process or consulting with families, she immerses herself and gives her all in a way we always say ‘you can feel’.

Floriana first found herself working in this industry following the passing of her father in 2011, during which she designed his monument herself. She found that designing her father’s monument came naturally to her and that the process was easy. So when the opportunity to work for Travis Monument Group arose, she was more than ready to jump at the opportunity. While Floriana is still early into her career, she has already learned an incredible amount, applying that knowledge and those skills to help families throughout the most difficult time in their lives.

Floriana comes from a big Italian family, where she grew up to read, write, and speak fluent Italian, so family is important to her. Following her upbringing, she earned an Associate’s degree in Applied Science and Visual Communication. When she isn’t helping out at Travis Monument Group, she spends time with her husband and their cat, Gino. She also loves being with family and friends, sharing stories over a nice dinner, and she enjoys a relaxing day at home, watching TV with an iced coffee in hand.

Floriana always comes to work with a positive attitude and a team player mentality. She understands that things can get hectic and busy quickly, but she believes that with a positive attitude, everything will work itself out in the end. Floriana looks forward to continuing to grow in her role at Travis Monument Group, learning more about the craft and helping countless families in the process.

A lifelong resident of Putnam County, Sheri was drawn to Putnam County Monuments because she wanted to serve the community she loved and do something with purpose to help others.

Sheri has great attention to detail and enjoys helping families with the many steps involved in the monument creation process. She is dedicated to ensuring that families receive the highest level of communication every step of the way to help them feel at ease as they go through this difficult time.

Sheri enjoys creating meaningful relationships with every family that she works with and loves finding special connections with others that have grown up and live in the community. She has a genuine compassion for others and believes this helps families feel more comfortable throughout the process.

When Sheri is not working, she likes spending time with her adult children, her mom, and her rescue cats. She also enjoys creative writing, reading, and watching live music. She is passionate about rescuing stray kittens in her community and has placed over 50 kittens in loving, forever homes.

Lori is our dedicated Memorial Consultant with a wealth of experience in sales and customer service. A key player in keeping our operations running smoothly, she handles everything from training new staff to ensuring our after-sales processes are seamless.

With a diverse background that includes roles in jewelry sales, hospitality management, and event planning, Lori is known for her compassionate and positive approach.

Her ability to engage with clients shines especially when she assists families in designing personalized monuments for their loved ones, a core aspect of our service that truly benefits from her compassionate touch.

Lori is not only committed to excellence in her daily responsibilities but is also eager to evolve into a wonderful memorial consultant within our family-oriented business.

At Travis Monuments, we truly value Lori’s dedication to enhancing our client interactions and her continuous professional development. Her presence not only enriches our team but also ensures that every family we serve receives the utmost care and attention.

When not at work, Lori enjoys spending quality time with her husband and three daughters. She likes traveling, cooking, baking, and crafts. The beach is her happy place. She dreams of visiting every state in the U.S. and exploring beaches around the world!