Roberta Pasquale died on Thursday, May 9, in New Brunswick, NJ at 71.
Mrs. Pasquale was born and raised in Dunkirk, NY. She attended and graduated from the Villa Maria Academy.
Mrs. Pasquale retired from the Massachusetts Medical Society in 1998 as a Customer Service Representative. She worked in many other fields, including being a pharmaceutical technician, a reservationist and an elementary Catholic school teacher at St. Mary's Elementary School in Dunkirk, NY. She lived in California, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Kentucky before moving to Maynard, MA. She moved to New Jersey in 2005.
Mrs. Pasquale was predeceased by her husband, Frank A. Pasquale, Jr. in 2004. She was also predeceased by her brother, Anthony Steele and her sister, Audrey Stuczynski. She is survived by her son, Frank A. Pasquale III, of Brooklyn, NY and a sister, Mary Jane Palmatier of Sun City, CA.
Mrs. Pasquale will always be remembered by family and friends as a kind, generous, and spiritual woman. Her Catholic faith was strong, and she was devoted to family and church.
Funeral services will begin on Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Gleason Funeral Home, 1360 Hamilton Street in Somerset, NJ, followed by a 10:30 a.m. funeral mass at St. Matthias Church in Somerset. Interment will take place at St. Bridget's Cemetery in Maynard, MA on Thursday. Friends and family may visit from 4-8 p.m. on Monday at the funeral home.
Contributions in Mrs. Pasquale's name may be made to Catholic Relief Services, P.O. Box 17090, Baltimore, MD 21203 or to St. Padre Pio Shrine c/o Newfield National Bank, Attn: Kathy Valla, VP - Drawer-O, 18 West Blvd., Newfield, NJ 08344.
Obituary from the Dunkirk Observer
