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Birth: unknown
Manhattan
New York County
New York, USA
Death: May18, 2011
Woodbridge
Middlesex County
New Jersey, USA
Former Rossville resident Martha Sillari, 93, of Woodbridge, New Jersey, a retired magazine staffer, died Wednesday at St. Joseph's Senior Home in Woodbridge.
Born Martha Derivi in Manhattan, she lived much of her life in Queens. She moved to Rossville in 2004 and went to live in Woodbridge the following year.
Mrs. Sillari was in her 50s when she graduated from Pratt Institute with a bachelor of arts degree. Afterwards, she landed a job as an assistant editor at HouseBeautiful magazine. She retired at sixty-five.
She was an accomplished traveler, familiar with much of this country and Canada, Europe, and Asia.
She played piano, painted, and sculpted. She collected antiques and enjoyed Broadway shows.
Her cousin, Attilio Avidano, characterized her as "a veryindependent person who had a good sense of humor."
Mrs. Sillari's husbandof nearly forty-five years, Dante, died in 1987. Her son, Dennis, died in 1986.
The funeral will be held on Monday from the Bedell-Pizzo Funeral Home,Tottenville, with a Mass at 12:00 p.m. in St. Joseph's R.C. Church, Rossville.
Burial will follow in St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, Long Island.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on May 20, 2011.
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Spouse:
Dante G Sillari (1921 - 1987)
Burial:
Saint Charles Cemetery
Farmingdale
Suffolk County
New York, USA
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