Mrs.
Rose A. (Parese) Blake of Chelmsford died Tuesday March
7, 2006 surrounded by her family.Born in Staten
Island, NY on March 23, 1920, the daughter of the late
James and Anna (Farina) Parese. She graduated from Curtis High School
in New York with the class of 1937. She moved her family
to Chelmsford in 1958.
She was employed with Highland Cleaners, Lowell, JM
Fields and Caldors Department stores in Chelmsford until
her retirement in 1987.
She was a communicant of St. John the Evangelist
Church in N. Chelmsford. Her life was her grandchildren.
She is survived by a son and daughter in-law, John F.
Blake III and his wife Cynthia (Banks) Blake of
Litchfield, NH; a daughter and son in-law; Arlene Blake
and her husband, Russell (Butch) Linstad of Chelmsford,
MA; four grandchildren, Christina (Blake) Beauschense and
her husband Eric of Chelmsford, Patricia (Blake) Leger
and her Husband Edward of Lawrence, Pamela Linstad and
David Linstad of Chelmsford; 2 great grandchildren, Jack
and Mia Roase Beauchense; 8 step grandchildren,
including Todd Terrien and his fiancée Amy Waszeciak,
Amy (Terrien) and Manny Mangansis of NH, Brett Terrien
of Boston, and Russell and Allyson (Nicoli) Linstad Jr
of Messina, NY; 5 great step grandchildren; a sister and
brother in-law, Elizabeth (Parese) and James Pucciarelli
of Staten Island, NY; a brother in-law, James Ulrich of
Staten island, NY; 2 sisters in-law, Katherine Parese
and Mildred Parese of Staten, NY; many beloved nieces
and nephews located in Arizona, Brooklyn and Staten
Island, NY, Old Bridge, NJ and West Palm, FL and N.
Carolina; Her caretaker and friend Cathy Docette and all
her friends at Delaney Terrace, N. Chelmsford.
She was predeceased by her siblings, Raphael, John
and Nicholas Parese all of NY, Grace Platte of NJ and
Anna Ulrich of NY. She was the former wife of the late
John F. Blake Jr.
FUNERAL NOTICE
BLAKE, Rose (Parese) Blake of Chelmsford, MA died March
7, 2006. Visiting hour Friday from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.
with a Memorial Service at 11:00 a.m. in the DOLAN
FUNERAL HOME 106 MIDDLESEX ST. CHELMSFORD, MA. Memorials
may be made in her name to the American Liver
Foundation, 88 Winchester St.Newton, Ma 02461 or
http://www.active.com/donate/footballwalkne/Rose4.
ARRANGEMENTS BY DOLAN FUNERAL HOME 978-251-4041.
Guestbook at www.dolanfuneralhome.com
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