Ada Pecoraro
January 12, 1934 – December 27, 2022
Visitation
Tuesday January 3, 2023 from 2pm to 4pm & 6pm to 8pm
Holy Cross Catholic Funeral Home
211 Langstaff Road East, Thornhill, ON, L3T 3Z6
Funeral Mass – Chapel of St. Joseph (within the Funeral Home)
Wednesday January 4, 2023 at 12pm
Entombment
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
8361 Yonge Street, Thornhill, ON, L3T 2C7
Obituary
Ada passed away very peacefully at the age of 88. She was kind, sweet, loving, polite and respectful with everyone she ever came across. Even as her illness took a greater toll, she remained a lady right to the end. Ada was a living example of the phrase “I am woman, hear me roar”. She got her driver’s license at a time when very few immigrant women of her generation did. Inspiring so many others that she was close to, to do the same. She had her own business at home working as a seamstress while raising a family in the early seventies and when her children were finally all in school full time, she started to earn extra money working outside the home again while still maintaining the home business. She was a stunning example to all her children of hard work, perseverance, ingenuity and relentless energy.
She joins her husband, Giovanni, of 63 years to have their nightly espressos (cold espressos in the summer) in heaven. She will be missed beyond description by her children Raffaele, Fiorella and Mario, Anna and Len. She will be especially missed by her grandchildren (or in her words “puppetti”) Thomas, Megan, Lucas and Emma and will forever occupy a part of their hearts. They secretly loved the showers of affection, and her constant and endless supply of kisses. She would tell anyone who listened that they lit up her world and gave her the greatest happiness she ever knew. She adored and will be affectionately remembered by her sister in law Bianca, predeceased by her sisters Amelia and Rosa, her sister in law Antonietta, her brothers in law Lucido, Luigi, Vincenzo and Antonio. She very much loved her nieces and nephews and adored her great nieces and great nephews. She always enjoyed her trips to Buffalo to visit the family members that she treasured. For those she called friends, she loved and cared about you and always appreciated you.
In her final years she was under the care of the staff in Noble’s Corner at Sherwood Court where she received an exceptional level of care. We would like to thank Dr. Anita and the entire staff for watching over her and always accepting her affection and constant hugs. She felt your caring natures and love and so did we. Our gratitude to you all, goes beyond mere words.
If you would like to make a donation in Ada’s honour, the family has suggested the Alzheimer Society, the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Arthritis Society.
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Décès pour la Ville:Thornhill, Province: Ontario