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Born in Bridgeport on May 10, 1937, she was the daughter of the late Enrico and Jennie Ferraro Masciola. She attended Harding High School and worked at Alteri's bakery with her future husband. She was married for over 50 years and spent her life raising not only her eight children and many grandchildren but an entire neighborhood of children as well. She spent many years doing charity work for muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy.
Survivors include her children, Rita Deyo, George Deyo and his wife, Donna, Thomas Deyo and his wife, Doreen, Concetta Gutman and her husband, Michael, Richard Deyo, Peter Deyo and his wife, Kathie, Ann Lauro and her husband, Michael, and Anthony Deyo; 10 grandchildren, Jennifer Burns, Michael Deyo and his wife, Laura, Jennifer Deyo, Michael Gutman Jr., Jonathan Deyo, Sarah Deyo, Kenneth Gutman, Richard Deyo Jr., Michael Lauro Jr. and Jack Deyo; two great-grandchildren, Elisabeth Benway and Cailyn Deyo; a brother, Dominic Masciola and his wife, Cookie; four sisters, Louise Ruggiero, Gloria Masciola, Betty Salamanca and Dolores Yaremich; brother-in-law Peter Deyo; and several nieces, nephews and cousins.
In addition to her husband, Gunner, she was predeceased by a grandson, George P. Deyo III, daughter-in-law, Lisa Ferrara Deyo, brothers-in-law, Thomas A. Deyo and James Taft and siblings, Jeannette Urban, Enrico I, Enrico II, Emily, Rita and John Masciola.
Relatives and friends may greet the family on Tuesday from 4-8 p.m. at Abriola Parkview Funeral Home, 419 White Plains Road, Trumbull. Funeral services will take place Wednesday at 10 a.m. in the Abriola Parkview Funeral Home and at 11 a.m. in St. Andrew Church, Bridgeport, for a mass of Christian burial. Interment will take place on Friday at 2 p.m. in St. Michael Cemetery, Stratford.
In lieu of flowers, those desiring may make memorial contributions to St. Jude's Children Research Hospital, 510 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
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