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1. marc on August 7, 2019 at 3:34 pm

   My condolences Anna to you and your family. Having also lost a parent, I know what you are going through.
   Take solace in the fact that she is now in peace and no longer suffering.
   God Bless.

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2. Dom Ventura on August 7, 2019 at 4:59 pm

   I’m certain I don’t know anyone that practiced kindness and giving as much as you and even more so to family members where you loved most to be,,, where your nature shined,,, we all saw it,,, you loving-to-love,,, there shining bright amidst family…

   We loved you as our mother,,, but you loved us even more and that’s what makes this good-bye so hard…

   For all of us that knew and loved her we know she was a caring soul who loved-to-love that would always step-up in taking care of family… As a young girl being the eldest sibling she helped care for her younger brothers,,, and then as her parents aged she would have nothing less than they’re living with her and her own family…

   Always proud of family,,, she celebrated family and so her mom or dad were given a yearly birthday gathering at her own house where all her brothers and their children would attend… Her dad lived to be 99 & her mother 89, so there were many, many gatherings…

   As a young mother a devastating tragedy would take her first born at 2 years of age, a beautiful boy, and how she survived that remains a mystery… She would come to raise 2 strong daughters who would have families of their own and so all grandchildren and puppies got the Nonna Maria care which was a beautiful thing, how she loved-to-love,,, her heart would shine as those in her care laughed and played…

   A simple person just like the rest of us in her loving and caring for family BUT there was so much more to her caring than just for family… A story comes to mind as she would regularly grocery shop at her local spot and soon became acquainted with a new hire,,, a young man from Albania along with his wife and child who’d escaped the ravages of a war-torn Yugoslavia… They had escaped to Italy as refugees that finally made it to Canada,,, Toronto,,, here… She recognized that they were in need and without family support so she began to give to them,,, at first some nonperishable food items, then even clothes, later warm meals then eventually helping care for his pregnant wife and child while he went to work… The story ends that he would die at a young age and leave his wife and now 2 children without a father… Before long Nonna Maria along with her daughter would secure housing and social assistance for this young family granting them some sort of social agency,,, what a gift… Today we hear many similar stories of families from Syria where GTA families take-in a family to support,,, well here she had done it 20 years earlier,,, she seems to have shown the way…

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3. Toni Ventura on August 7, 2019 at 8:23 pm

   Mom

   I think of problems and then I automatically think of you….not because you were the problem but because you were always the first responder no matter the cause.
   My new car, there you were. My wedding, there you were. My daughter’s arrival, there you were. My daughter’s upbringing, there you were. My son’s arrival, our house moves, our dogs care, our whatever, there you were.
   To the point where I needed not worry about where you were as you were always just behind us ready to help.

   Was all this giving the result of my attempts at assisting you in the earlier day’s when you needed English assistance..and if so then didn’t I get the larger payback. I suppose that’s what a parent does, help in the early stages of leaving the nest.

   I tried to return the favour in the last few years as your difficulties grew thru broken falls to major illness.
   I know that you were in huge physical pain and so we held each other, we sang together and we cried together.

   I tried but I couldn’t take away the pain. I couldn’t stop the illness and so we began to accept the coming storm and best prepared moving you to hospital and there I visited and again we held each other, we sang together and we cried together.

   Three months later and now your’re finally released. I will remember you not just from the ending we shared but mostly from the joy’s we shared.

   Reflecting I look at my family now . I’m beginning to see signs of you in my own son who now whether through his chosen profession or thru his simple reaction or perhaps he’s watched my own actions emulating you or are these the signs of good people doing good deeds….

   I don’t know for certain but I do know that what I have and who I am has come in a large part from me watching you. Yes, I have been truly blessed

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4. Grace Greco on August 8, 2019 at 8:09 pm

   Toni,

   My deepest condolences on the loss of your mother. Unfortunately Frank and I will not be able to attend the service as we are leaving for vacation on Friday. Our thoughts and prayers are with you!

   Your cousins,
   Grace and Frank Greco

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5. Mama and Papa Anna & Joe on August 13, 2019 at 9:30 pm

   Apple?
   If you read this, you know my mama wrote this as I was not able too. I want to thank-you for accepting me in your home and loving me. You taught me how to act, what true love and acceptance was all about. I enjoyed your cooking, your sauce and your tremendous Love. You helped me grow into a sensitive loving 4 legged friend that my mama and papa called me YO.

   Thanks for seeing my greatest gift, my love for you. When love is around and felt ….. no words need to be spoken.

   Lets roll the ball in Heaven now……

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