Victoria M. (Milkey) Scalora, age 103, passed away on April 24, 2025, at Stone Bridge Center for Health and Rehabilitation.

She was the widow of the late Joseph L. Scalora.

Vickie was born in Lawrence, Mass., on March 6, 1922, a daughter of Tufic and Mary (Kiamie) Milkey. She moved to Danbury as a small child with her parents and sister, Helen Basher. In her teens and twenties, she worked at Whelan’s Drug Store on Main Street, Danbury. She loved telling stories of working at the lunch counter. During World War II, she worked at Remington Arms in Bridgeport making bullets for the war effort, later going back to Whelan’s.

She met her husband Joe at a dance; they married in 1955 at St Ann Melkite Church and moved to Winsted. After having their son Victor and daughter Helen, they moved back to Danbury; when her children started school, she worked in the cafeteria at Morris Street School and then Rogers Park Junior High School in Danbury.

Around 1995, Vickie and Joe moved to Nunnawauk Meadows in Newtown. At Nunnawauk, you could find Vickie walking around the complex or down at the hall or gazebo with her friends. Vickie continued living at Nunnawauk after Joe passed in early 2008.

In April 2022, at the age of 100, she went to live at The Cascades at Stone Bridge Memory Care in Sandy Hook. During her last few days, she was at Danbury Hospital and then went to the Stone Bridge Center in Sandy Hook for a week before she passed.

Vickie had been an avid bowler into her 60s and had been a member of the Bowlerettes Ladies Bowling Team for more than 20 years. Vickie loved to paint and sketch and when the music played, she was always the first one up to dance.

We will always remember Sitto’s chocolate chip cookies, the turkey cutout cookies at Thanksgiving, her “gun” cookies, homemade pizza and ka’ak. Vickie always had on her red lipstick and red nails.

In addition to her husband Joseph and her parents, Vickie was predeceased by her son-in-law Andrew Vericker, her sister Helen Basher, brother-in-law Abraham Basher, and her nephews Randall Basher and Abraham Basher.

Vickie is survived by her son Victor and his wife Terry (Theresa) Scalora and her daughter Helen Vericker. Vickie was Sitto (Grandmother) to her three grandchildren: Alyssa Scalora and her husband Steven Scalora, Evan Vericker and his wife Andrea Salerno, and Nicole Scalora and her husband Guillermo Rojas; and her great grandchildren Sophia and Rocco Scalora. Vickie is also survived by her niece Nancy McCarthy and several great nieces and great nephew.

Vickie’s family would like to thank the staff at The Cascades who took such loving care of her for more than three years and the staff at Danbury Hospital 8 Buck and Stone Bridge who were there for her in her final days.

Friends will be received in the Jowdy-Kane Funeral Home, 9 Granville Avenue in Danbury, on Wednesday, April 30, from 4 to 7 pm. The Rite of Burial will take place on Thursday, May 1, at 10:30 am, in St Ann Melkite Catholic Church, 181 Clapboard Ridge Road (Route 39N) in Danbury. Burial will follow in Wooster Cemetery, Danbury.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in Victoria Scalora’s memory may be made to St Ann Melkite Catholic Church.