Dartmouth – Rose Correia, age 89, passed away on Sunday May 10, 2015 at her home in Dartmouth. She was the loving widow of Manuel Francis Correia and the daughter of the late Mary Gloria (Cabral) and Edward Fontes Sylvia.
Born in New Bedford, she lived all of her life in this area and worked as a Battery Hand at Wamsutta Mills for 14 years.
She was active in the St. Luke’s Hospital Ministry as a Eucharistic Minister and a Lector; also a Eucharistic Minister at St. Mary’s Church in Dartmouth as well as a Lector and Pastorial Minister to the sick. She was also a member of the St. Mary’s Choir, Mt. Carmel Seniors, St. Mary’s Guild and was a proud recipient of the Marion Medal.
Her family includes a son, the late Michael F. Correia; sister: Isabella Gonsalves of Fairhaven, deceased siblings: the late Alice Hoover, Lillian Cruz, Mary Sylvia Martin and William Sylvia; as well as several nieces, nephews, great nieces, great nephews and great great nieces.
Her funeral will be Friday beginning in the funeral home at 8:45 A.M. with a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Mary’s Church in Dartmouth at 10:00 A.M. Burial will follow in Rural Cemetery. Visiting hours will take place in the funeral home on Thursday evening from 4 – 7 P.M. Arrangements placed in the care of Perry Funeral Home, 111 Dartmouth St. New Bedford, Ma 02740.