Rose M. Vaccaro, a longtime Somerville resident, died Friday at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She was 83.
Mrs. Vaccaro was born in Passaic, NJ, the daughter of the late Michael and the late Mary (Tomcjyk) Katula. After high school She graduated Drake Business College in New Jersey. She worked for the War Department during World War II and then after her marriage, she and her family settled in Somerville, where she and her husband Phil have lived for nearly 60 years.
She was the beloved wife of Philip F. Vaccaro. She was a devoted mother to Philip A. Vaccaro and his wife Carol of Stoneham, Elaine Stiehl and her husband Alan of Somerville and a loving grandmother of Dan Stiehl.
Her funeral will be from the Dello Russo Funeral Home, 306 Main St., MEDFORD Tuesday at 9 AM. Followed by a funeral mass celebrated in St. Catherine of Genoa Church, 179 Summer St., Somerville, at 10 AM. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend. Visiting hours Monday 4 thru 8. Services will conclude with burial at Holy Cross Cemetery, Malden.