{"id":361312,"date":"2026-10-01T00:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361312\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T00:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:06:12","slug":"she-saved-money-under-her-pillow-then-she-helped-launch-a-staten-island-family-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361312\/","title":{"rendered":"She Saved Money Under Her Pillow. Then She Helped Launch a Staten Island Family Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mary Decker tucked away money under her pillow in the early 1930s, then handed it to her husband and helped buy a tugboat. That purchase launched a Staten Island family business, and by 1946 the Decker family had named the boat W.O. Decker after her father-in-law. The tugboat became the cornerstone of Decker&#8217;s Towing Service, and Mary Decker managed finances, payroll, logbooks, and crew schedules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary Decker tucked away money under her pillow in the early 1930s, then handed it to her husband&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[134236,134237,134235,9,24,63,134,136,135,134238],"class_list":["post-361312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-decker-family","tag-deckers-towing-service","tag-mary-decker","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-w-o-decker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}