Lifelong Staten Islander Elizabeth Silvestri, 99, of 1090 Forest Avenue, Westerleigh, a one-time milliner who loved to cook and enjoyed traveling well into her later years, died yesterday at Hackensack (New Jersey) University Medical Center Hospice.
Born Elizabeth Delasandro in Bulls Head, she grew up as the second oldest of ten siblings. She settled in Westerleigh in 1939.
Mrs. Silvestri was a graduate of the former Manhattan Trade School for Girls, where she learned to make hats. Mrs. Silvestri worked as a milliner in Manhattan before marrying.
She enjoyed cooking, especially Italian dishes as well as theater, trips to Atlantic City and traveling.
At eighty-five, she visited Rome and Florence with her family.
On her eighty-ninth birthday, she made what she referred to as her "Broadway debut." Mrs. Silvestri — who, as a younger woman had performed in theatrical productions with Our Lady of Pity R.C. Church — and her family were attending a Dame Edna show on Broadway when the performer otherwise known as Barry Humphries called her up on stage and had the entire audience sing "Happy Birthday to You."
"She was elated and excited," said her son-in-law, William Murray.
Her daughter, Joan Murray, said, "After the event my mother, said it took her eighty-nine years to make her Broadway debut."
At ninety, Mrs. Silvestri spent a "girls weekend" in Las Vegas with her two daughters and granddaughters.
"It was a thrill for her to be there with her granddaughters, Erin and Kathleen," said Mrs. Murray. "She enjoyed summers on the Jersey Shore with her great-grandsons, Alexander, Nicholas, and William. They called her G.G. for great-grandma."
For more than sixty years, Mrs. Silvestri was a parishioner of Blessed Sacrament R.C. Church, West Brighton.
Her husband of forty-eight years, Joseph, died in 1987.
In addition to her daughter, Joan, two granddaughters and three great-grandsons, surviving is another daughter, Elizabeth Ann Silvestri.
The funeral will be held on Friday from the Matthew Funeral Home, Willowbrook, with a Mass at 11:00 a.m. in Blessed Sacrament Church.
Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, also West Brighton.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on November 17, 2010.
Born Elizabeth Delasandro in Bulls Head, she grew up as the second oldest of ten siblings. She settled in Westerleigh in 1939.
Mrs. Silvestri was a graduate of the former Manhattan Trade School for Girls, where she learned to make hats. Mrs. Silvestri worked as a milliner in Manhattan before marrying.
She enjoyed cooking, especially Italian dishes as well as theater, trips to Atlantic City and traveling.
At eighty-five, she visited Rome and Florence with her family.
On her eighty-ninth birthday, she made what she referred to as her "Broadway debut." Mrs. Silvestri — who, as a younger woman had performed in theatrical productions with Our Lady of Pity R.C. Church — and her family were attending a Dame Edna show on Broadway when the performer otherwise known as Barry Humphries called her up on stage and had the entire audience sing "Happy Birthday to You."
"She was elated and excited," said her son-in-law, William Murray.
Her daughter, Joan Murray, said, "After the event my mother, said it took her eighty-nine years to make her Broadway debut."
At ninety, Mrs. Silvestri spent a "girls weekend" in Las Vegas with her two daughters and granddaughters.
"It was a thrill for her to be there with her granddaughters, Erin and Kathleen," said Mrs. Murray. "She enjoyed summers on the Jersey Shore with her great-grandsons, Alexander, Nicholas, and William. They called her G.G. for great-grandma."
For more than sixty years, Mrs. Silvestri was a parishioner of Blessed Sacrament R.C. Church, West Brighton.
Her husband of forty-eight years, Joseph, died in 1987.
In addition to her daughter, Joan, two granddaughters and three great-grandsons, surviving is another daughter, Elizabeth Ann Silvestri.
The funeral will be held on Friday from the Matthew Funeral Home, Willowbrook, with a Mass at 11:00 a.m. in Blessed Sacrament Church.
Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, also West Brighton.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on November 17, 2010.
Lifelong Staten Islander Elizabeth Silvestri, 99, of 1090 Forest Avenue, Westerleigh, a one-time milliner who loved to cook and enjoyed traveling well into her later years, died yesterday at Hackensack (New Jersey) University Medical Center Hospice.
Born Elizabeth Delasandro in Bulls Head, she grew up as the second oldest of ten siblings. She settled in Westerleigh in 1939.
Mrs. Silvestri was a graduate of the former Manhattan Trade School for Girls, where she learned to make hats. Mrs. Silvestri worked as a milliner in Manhattan before marrying.
She enjoyed cooking, especially Italian dishes as well as theater, trips to Atlantic City and traveling.
At eighty-five, she visited Rome and Florence with her family.
On her eighty-ninth birthday, she made what she referred to as her "Broadway debut." Mrs. Silvestri — who, as a younger woman had performed in theatrical productions with Our Lady of Pity R.C. Church — and her family were attending a Dame Edna show on Broadway when the performer otherwise known as Barry Humphries called her up on stage and had the entire audience sing "Happy Birthday to You."
"She was elated and excited," said her son-in-law, William Murray.
Her daughter, Joan Murray, said, "After the event my mother, said it took her eighty-nine years to make her Broadway debut."
At ninety, Mrs. Silvestri spent a "girls weekend" in Las Vegas with her two daughters and granddaughters.
"It was a thrill for her to be there with her granddaughters, Erin and Kathleen," said Mrs. Murray. "She enjoyed summers on the Jersey Shore with her great-grandsons, Alexander, Nicholas, and William. They called her G.G. for great-grandma."
For more than sixty years, Mrs. Silvestri was a parishioner of Blessed Sacrament R.C. Church, West Brighton.
Her husband of forty-eight years, Joseph, died in 1987.
In addition to her daughter, Joan, two granddaughters and three great-grandsons, surviving is another daughter, Elizabeth Ann Silvestri.
The funeral will be held on Friday from the Matthew Funeral Home, Willowbrook, with a Mass at 11:00 a.m. in Blessed Sacrament Church.
Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, also West Brighton.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on November 17, 2010.
Born Elizabeth Delasandro in Bulls Head, she grew up as the second oldest of ten siblings. She settled in Westerleigh in 1939.
Mrs. Silvestri was a graduate of the former Manhattan Trade School for Girls, where she learned to make hats. Mrs. Silvestri worked as a milliner in Manhattan before marrying.
She enjoyed cooking, especially Italian dishes as well as theater, trips to Atlantic City and traveling.
At eighty-five, she visited Rome and Florence with her family.
On her eighty-ninth birthday, she made what she referred to as her "Broadway debut." Mrs. Silvestri — who, as a younger woman had performed in theatrical productions with Our Lady of Pity R.C. Church — and her family were attending a Dame Edna show on Broadway when the performer otherwise known as Barry Humphries called her up on stage and had the entire audience sing "Happy Birthday to You."
"She was elated and excited," said her son-in-law, William Murray.
Her daughter, Joan Murray, said, "After the event my mother, said it took her eighty-nine years to make her Broadway debut."
At ninety, Mrs. Silvestri spent a "girls weekend" in Las Vegas with her two daughters and granddaughters.
"It was a thrill for her to be there with her granddaughters, Erin and Kathleen," said Mrs. Murray. "She enjoyed summers on the Jersey Shore with her great-grandsons, Alexander, Nicholas, and William. They called her G.G. for great-grandma."
For more than sixty years, Mrs. Silvestri was a parishioner of Blessed Sacrament R.C. Church, West Brighton.
Her husband of forty-eight years, Joseph, died in 1987.
In addition to her daughter, Joan, two granddaughters and three great-grandsons, surviving is another daughter, Elizabeth Ann Silvestri.
The funeral will be held on Friday from the Matthew Funeral Home, Willowbrook, with a Mass at 11:00 a.m. in Blessed Sacrament Church.
Burial will be in St. Peter's Cemetery, also West Brighton.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on November 17, 2010.
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