STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Rosemarie DeCicco of Todt Hill, 67, a retired receptionist, died yesterday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze. Born Rosemarie Suriani in Brooklyn, Mrs. DeCicco move to Staten Island in 1965. She worked at Verrazano Radiology in Ocean Breeze as a receptionist before retiring in 2005. Mrs. DeCicco graduated from Lafayette High School in Brooklyn. She loved to travel and visited Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Aruba with her childhood friends. Mrs. DeCicco enjoyed gardening, cooking and watching cooking shows and game shows. She was a big New York Yankees fan and enjoyed watching tennis. Devoted to her family, she never missed her children or grandchildren's baseball games or dance recitals. ""She was loving, generous, dynamic, smart, strong and sensible,"" said her granddaughter Christina Schirripa. ""She was a role model to us,"" added Miss Schirripa. Her husband of 30 years, Frank DeCicco, died in 1986. In addition to her granddaughter, Mrs. DeCicco is survived by her son, Vincent DeCicco; daughter, Grace Schirripa, brother John Suriani, and four additional grandchildren. The funeral will be Thursday from the Matthew Funeral Home, Willowbrook, with a 10 a.m. mass at St. Patrick's R.C. Church in Richmond. Burial will follow at Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Rosemarie DeCicco of Todt Hill, 67, a retired receptionist, died yesterday in Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze. Born Rosemarie Suriani in Brooklyn, Mrs. DeCicco move to Staten Island in 1965. She worked at Verrazano Radiology in Ocean Breeze as a receptionist before retiring in 2005. Mrs. DeCicco graduated from Lafayette High School in Brooklyn. She loved to travel and visited Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Aruba with her childhood friends. Mrs. DeCicco enjoyed gardening, cooking and watching cooking shows and game shows. She was a big New York Yankees fan and enjoyed watching tennis. Devoted to her family, she never missed her children or grandchildren's baseball games or dance recitals. ""She was loving, generous, dynamic, smart, strong and sensible,"" said her granddaughter Christina Schirripa. ""She was a role model to us,"" added Miss Schirripa. Her husband of 30 years, Frank DeCicco, died in 1986. In addition to her granddaughter, Mrs. DeCicco is survived by her son, Vincent DeCicco; daughter, Grace Schirripa, brother John Suriani, and four additional grandchildren. The funeral will be Thursday from the Matthew Funeral Home, Willowbrook, with a 10 a.m. mass at St. Patrick's R.C. Church in Richmond. Burial will follow at Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp
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