Anna “Ann” Marie Messuri, 96, of Medford, and the last of seven (Salerno) children of Columba and Joseph to pass away, went to sleep peacefully at her Medford home surrounded by her loving family. Born and raised in Somerville, Ann was a 1946 graduate of Somerville High School and grew up in the shadows of Saint Anthony’s Church on Somerville Avenue. Ann volunteered much of her childhood free time to the church, school and rectory performing meaningful yet ordinary tasks, and beginning a life of volunteer service to the church that continued throughout her life even to the age of 95. Ann worked in the Clerks’s office and then as a bookkeeper at Somerville District Court from 1966-1991. Ann married Nickolas A Messuri, her (Nick) in 1953, a WWII soldier boy, and from the same Somerville neighborhood. Ann moved to Traincroft Road in Medford in 1970 with her adoring husband Nick, and their three boys, Fred, Dan and Nick. After Nick passed away of cancer in 1975, Ann regrouped and found incredible strength as a single widowed parent and took care of her three teenage boys, helping them through college and law school. Ann became a Eucharistic Minister and served at masses and funerals at St Joseph’s Church in Medford for almost 50 years. Her last service, at a funeral for a dear friend was just earlier this year. Ann, who drove her own car until this year, often traveled to nursing homes and to the homes of the elderly and the sick to deliver holy communion. Born in 1928, and experiencing the Great Depression as a child, and then completing her high school during the WWII years, there was never a moment in which Ann was not grateful for her blessings. Besides her three sons, she enjoyed and cherished her three daughters-in-law - Kathy, Karen and Tina; her nine grandchildren - Christina, Katie, Nicole, David, Danielle, Rachelle, Matthew, Brittany and Nathan; and her thirteen great-grandchildren – Delia, Charleigh, Linden, Callie, Jamie, Isabella, Lorenzo, Thea, Iris, Rory, Gus, Daniel, and Vincent. Ann never remarried after losing her beloved Nick, and often indicated to those that asked, that she remained devoted to her sweetheart since their engagement and wedding in 1953. Ann was a terrific Italian cook, and relished opportunities to host her immediate and extended families, including the annual family Christmas Party. Many of her recipes will live on in the kitchens of her family. More than anything else, the power of her love, generosity, and thoughtfulness for her friends, her family, her five sisters and brother, her nephews and nieces, was so abundant and will be forever remembered in our hearts. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to visit with Anna's family in the Dello Russo Funeral Home, 306 Main St., Medford on Friday, December 27th from 8:30-11:00 AM, followed by a Mass of Christian Burial celebrated in St. Joseph Church, 118 High St., Medford at 11:30 AM. Service will conclude with interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge. In lieu of flowers contributions may be sent in Anna’s name to St. Joseph’s Church, Medford.