Obituaries and Memories
Mary Del Vecchio Gurto (Grandma Gurto)
April 20, 1899
February 19, 1972
Obituary
Mary Del Vecchio Gurto – Obituary
Monday, February 21, 1972 “The News Herald”
Deaths, Funerals
Mrs. Mary Gurto
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary J. Gurto, 72, of 717 Wrights Ave., will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in St. Frances Cabrini Church.
The Rev. Patrick Dempster will offer mass. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery.
Visiting hours will be observed from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday at the Raisian Funeral Home.
Born April 20, 1899 in Rippabatone, Italy she resided in Conneaut for 60 years.
She was a member of St. Frances Cabrini Church.
Survivors include sons, Patrick, Frank, Joseph, and Anthony, all of Conneaut, Christy of West Palm Beach Fla.; and James of Wexford, Pa.; daughters, Mrs. Robert (Rose) Speer, Mrs. William (Florence) Lewis, Mrs. John (Mary) Moneypenny, all of Conneaut, and Mrs. Robert (Susan) Petrovski of Milwaukee, Wis.; 31 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and four sisters.
She was preceded in death by her husband Peter Gurto on Dec. 28, 1971, and parents Crucalanto and Marcia Guilliano Del Vecchio.
Mrs.Gurto died Saturday in Brown Memorial Hospital at 5:45 a.m. of complications following a short illness.
Wednesday, February 23, 1972 “The News Herald”
Deaths, Funerals
Mrs. Mary Gurto
A High mass for Mrs. Mary J. Gurto, 72, of 717 Wrights Ave., was offered at 10 a.m. Tuesday in St. Frances Cabrini Church.
Offering the Mass was the Rev. Patrick Dempster pastor of the church. Marie Walters, organist, assisted in the singing of the Mass.
Devotional services led by Fr. Dempster were held Monday afternoon at the Raisian Funeral Home. Prayer services preceded the church services.
Pallbearers were James Speer, Steve Moneypenny, Joseph Gurto, Barry Pearce, John Lewis and David Gurto, all grandsons of Mrs. Gurto
Burial was in St. Joseph Cemetery with Fr. Dempster offering graveside prayers.
Friends and relatives attended services from Ashtabula, Wexford, Pa.; Buffalo and Niagara Falls, N.Y.; Milwaukee, Wis.; and West Palm Beach Fla.
Mrs. Gurto died Saturday in Brown Memorial Hospital
Comment (1)
From Sharen:
Safely Home
I am home in Heaven, dear ones;
Oh, so happy and so bright!
There is perfect joy and beauty
In this everlasting light.
All the pain and grief is over,
Every restless tossing passed;
I Am now at peace forever,
Safely home in Heaven at last.
Did you wonder I so calmly
Trod the valley of the shade?
Oh! but Jesus love illumined
Every dark and fearful glade.
And He came Himself to meet me,
In that way so hard to tread;
And with Jesus’ arm to lean on,
Could I have one doubt or dread?
Then you must not grieve so sorely,
For I love you dearly still:
Try to look beyond earth’s shadows,
Pray to trust our Father’s Will.
There is work still waiting for you,
So you must not idly stand;
Do it now, while life remaineth
You shall rest in Jesus’ land
When that work is all completed,
He will gently call you Home:
Oh, the rapture of that meeting,
Oh, the joy to see you come!