TEWKSBURY Elena C. (Giuliano)(Capozzi) Kovacev, 94, of Tewksbury, passed away peacefully at Bear Mountain at Andover on Wednesday February 2, 2022. She was the widow of Nat Kovacev who passed away in 1995, and Anthony Capozzi who passed away in 1976.
She was born on July 10, 1927 in East Boston, she was the daughter of the late Geralando and Gorvinha (Carafe) Giuliano. She grew up and was educated in Providence, RI and she worked from her home as a seamstress. She loved the Boston Red Sox, and Nascar, but she had a deep affinity for Engelbert Humperdinck. She enjoyed taking road trips with her children, but always to an Engelbert Humperdinck concert.
She is survived by her children, Rosemary Saporito and her husband Angelo of Tewksbury, Joanne Bordonaro and her husband Mike of Londonderry, NH, and Al Capozzi and his wife Sandra of Windham, NH; her step children, Joseph, Patricia, Richard and Robert Kovacev, Paula Foley Murray, Susan Nadile. She also leaves her grandchildren and great grandchildren, one great great grandson.
She was the step mother of the late Natalie Kovacev, and she is predeceased by her two sisters and four brothers.
You are invited to her calling hours on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 from 9a.m. until 11a.m. at the Tewksbury Funeral Home, 1 Dewey Street, Tewksbury, MA 01876. Her funeral service will take place at 11AM in the funeral home followed by procession to Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to the Lowell Association for the Blind, 169 Merrimack St, Lowell, Massachusetts 01852. Please visit www.TewksburyFuneralHome.com to leave the family a message of condolence.