Mary Pauline Dattilo Puglisi

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Mary Pauline Dattilo Puglisi of Stratford died October 21 in St Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport. She was born in Bridgeport to Joseph and Ann Dattilo and attended Harding High School there.

She is survived by a daughter, Rosemary Carson and her husband, David, of Newtown; a son, Horace Puglisi and his partner, Theresa Chun, both of Randolph, Vt.; four grandchildren, Janeanne Carson Allard, Lori Carson Rogers, Heather Puglisi, and Carrie Puglisi; six great-grandchildren, Brianna Allard, Jessica Allard, Abigail Rogers, Edmund Rogers, Spencer Rogers, and Max Inserro. She is also survived by a brother, Michael Dattilo; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Mrs Puglisi was first employed at the Canfield Rubber Plant and later spent many years as a sales person for the Levitt’s Department Store. She was a Girl Scout leader, past president of the Ladies Trinacria Society, past president of the Ladies UNICO, and a member of the Italian Scholarship Committee. She served the community with her involvement in YMCA Woodend Homes Project.

When she was in her 80s, she and her husband George volunteered for the Stratford Meals on Wheels. After moving to Middlebrook Farms, Mrs Puglisi became an active member of the Red Hat Society.

Mrs Puglisi has been a longtime parishioner of Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Stratford and Holy Rosary Church in Bridgeport.

Funeral services took place October 25 in the Abriola Parkview Funeral Home, Trumbull, and in Our Lady of Grace Church, Stratford, for a Mass of Christian Burial. Interment followed in St Michael Cemetery, Stratford.

Contributions may be made to the charity of one’s choice in memory of Mary Pauline Puglisi.

The Newtown Bee        October 26, 2007