Mrs. Rose Fiorello, 63, 1621 Pershing Avenue, was found dead about 9 a.m. Wednesday on the floor of her living room, apparently the victim of a heart attack. She had been under a physician's care for a heart ailment.
Two neighbors, Mrs. Lucille Thompson, 1628 Pershing Avenue, and Mrs. Hazel Balahoski, 1625 Pershing Avenue, a nurse, discovered Mrs. Fiorello, who is believed to been stricken early in the morning.
A daughter, Mrs. Gene Lombardo, called Mrs. Thompson and said she hadn't been able to get an answer to telephone calls made to her mother. Mrs. Fiorello had been alone in the house while two sons, Charles and Frank, were on a trip south.
Mrs. Fiorello born, June 2, 1886, in Vallelunga, Sicily, came to this country in 1901. She was married to Joseph Fiorello in 1905 in Louisiana, and the couple came to Rockford in 1924. She was a member of the St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Parish.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Gene Lombardo and Mrs. George Lombardo, both of Rockford; five sons, Charles, Roy, Frank, Joseph and Louis, all of Rockford; five grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Caroline Teresa, Los Angeles, Cal.; a brother, Louis Gugino, San Bernardino, Cal., and a number of nieces and nephews.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Gasparini & Oliveri Funeral Home, 824 Sanford Street, and at 11 a.m. in St. Anthony of Padua Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. The rosary will be recited at 7 o'clock Friday night at the funeral home.
Friends may call at the Joseph Fiorello residence, 811 Loomis Street, until Friday noon and at the funeral home from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 11 p.m. Friday.
Rockford Morning Star (Nov/17/1949)
Two neighbors, Mrs. Lucille Thompson, 1628 Pershing Avenue, and Mrs. Hazel Balahoski, 1625 Pershing Avenue, a nurse, discovered Mrs. Fiorello, who is believed to been stricken early in the morning.
A daughter, Mrs. Gene Lombardo, called Mrs. Thompson and said she hadn't been able to get an answer to telephone calls made to her mother. Mrs. Fiorello had been alone in the house while two sons, Charles and Frank, were on a trip south.
Mrs. Fiorello born, June 2, 1886, in Vallelunga, Sicily, came to this country in 1901. She was married to Joseph Fiorello in 1905 in Louisiana, and the couple came to Rockford in 1924. She was a member of the St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Parish.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Gene Lombardo and Mrs. George Lombardo, both of Rockford; five sons, Charles, Roy, Frank, Joseph and Louis, all of Rockford; five grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Caroline Teresa, Los Angeles, Cal.; a brother, Louis Gugino, San Bernardino, Cal., and a number of nieces and nephews.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Gasparini & Oliveri Funeral Home, 824 Sanford Street, and at 11 a.m. in St. Anthony of Padua Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. The rosary will be recited at 7 o'clock Friday night at the funeral home.
Friends may call at the Joseph Fiorello residence, 811 Loomis Street, until Friday noon and at the funeral home from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 11 p.m. Friday.
Rockford Morning Star (Nov/17/1949)
Mrs. Rose Fiorello, 63, 1621 Pershing Avenue, was found dead about 9 a.m. Wednesday on the floor of her living room, apparently the victim of a heart attack. She had been under a physician's care for a heart ailment.
Two neighbors, Mrs. Lucille Thompson, 1628 Pershing Avenue, and Mrs. Hazel Balahoski, 1625 Pershing Avenue, a nurse, discovered Mrs. Fiorello, who is believed to been stricken early in the morning.
A daughter, Mrs. Gene Lombardo, called Mrs. Thompson and said she hadn't been able to get an answer to telephone calls made to her mother. Mrs. Fiorello had been alone in the house while two sons, Charles and Frank, were on a trip south.
Mrs. Fiorello born, June 2, 1886, in Vallelunga, Sicily, came to this country in 1901. She was married to Joseph Fiorello in 1905 in Louisiana, and the couple came to Rockford in 1924. She was a member of the St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Parish.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Gene Lombardo and Mrs. George Lombardo, both of Rockford; five sons, Charles, Roy, Frank, Joseph and Louis, all of Rockford; five grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Caroline Teresa, Los Angeles, Cal.; a brother, Louis Gugino, San Bernardino, Cal., and a number of nieces and nephews.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Gasparini & Oliveri Funeral Home, 824 Sanford Street, and at 11 a.m. in St. Anthony of Padua Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. The rosary will be recited at 7 o'clock Friday night at the funeral home.
Friends may call at the Joseph Fiorello residence, 811 Loomis Street, until Friday noon and at the funeral home from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 11 p.m. Friday.
Rockford Morning Star (Nov/17/1949)
Two neighbors, Mrs. Lucille Thompson, 1628 Pershing Avenue, and Mrs. Hazel Balahoski, 1625 Pershing Avenue, a nurse, discovered Mrs. Fiorello, who is believed to been stricken early in the morning.
A daughter, Mrs. Gene Lombardo, called Mrs. Thompson and said she hadn't been able to get an answer to telephone calls made to her mother. Mrs. Fiorello had been alone in the house while two sons, Charles and Frank, were on a trip south.
Mrs. Fiorello born, June 2, 1886, in Vallelunga, Sicily, came to this country in 1901. She was married to Joseph Fiorello in 1905 in Louisiana, and the couple came to Rockford in 1924. She was a member of the St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Parish.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Gene Lombardo and Mrs. George Lombardo, both of Rockford; five sons, Charles, Roy, Frank, Joseph and Louis, all of Rockford; five grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Caroline Teresa, Los Angeles, Cal.; a brother, Louis Gugino, San Bernardino, Cal., and a number of nieces and nephews.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Gasparini & Oliveri Funeral Home, 824 Sanford Street, and at 11 a.m. in St. Anthony of Padua Church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. The rosary will be recited at 7 o'clock Friday night at the funeral home.
Friends may call at the Joseph Fiorello residence, 811 Loomis Street, until Friday noon and at the funeral home from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 11 p.m. Friday.
Rockford Morning Star (Nov/17/1949)
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