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Thursday, March 06, 2003     Page: 7A

Jennie Siracuse
   
March 4, 2003
    Jennie Siracuse, 97, of formerly of Shoemaker Street, Swoyersville, died
Tuesday at the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital.
   
Born Feb. 23, 1906, in Sicily, she was the daughter of the late Vincent and
Phillis Piazza. She was employed as a seamstress for Leslie Fay, Plains
Township, and was a member of Holy Name Church and its Altar and Rosary
Society, Swoyersville.
   
She was preceded in death by her husband, Frank; and daughter, Phillis
Semko.
   
Surviving are daughter, Rosalie Amato, with whom she resided, Dallas; sons,
Carl, Dallas; Vincent, Middletown, N.Y.; eight grandchildren; 14
great-grandchildren.
   
Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday from the James M. Desiderio
Funeral Home Inc., 2 Academy Road, Hanover Township, with services at 10 a.m.
at Gate of Heaven Church, Dallas. Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery,
Carverton, Kingston Township.
   
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday.