Margaret DeRocco

November 19, 1932 - May 5, 2022

Margaret R. DeRocco

May 5, 2022

 

Margaret R. DeRocco, 89, of Wilkes-Barre, passed away on Thursday, May 5, 2022, at Allied Services Hospice Center in Wilkes-Barre.

 

She was born in Wilkes-Barre, a daughter of the late James and Gelsomina Botticello DeRocco. Margaret was a graduate of G.A.R. Memorial High School. Prior to her retirement in 1994, Margaret was employed as an office manager at Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc.

 

Margaret was preceded in death by her siblings John, Vincent “Jim,” and Teresa DeRocco.

 

Survivng are her siblings, Carl DeRocco and his wife Rosalie, Hanover Township; Marie Showanes, Wilkes-Barre; her dog Lucy, who was her companion and friend; and numerous nieces and nephews and great-nieces and great-nephews.

 

Funeral services will be held on Monday at 10 A.M. from the Nat & Gawlas Funeral Home, 89 Park Avenue, Wilkes-Barre, with a Mass of Christian Burial to follow at 10:30 A.M. in St. John the Baptist Church, 126 Nesbitt Street, Larksville, PA, 18651. Interment will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Hanover Township.

 

Friends may call on Monday from 8:30-10 A.M. at the funeral home.

 

Margaret’s family would like to thank the staff at Allied Hospice Center.