Obituary of Fernanda Favro (nee Scrocchi)

Favro, Fernanda (nee Scrocchi) - Died peacefully at Weston Terrace Long Term Care Facility in Toronto at the age of 95 on March 26, 2017. She is survived by four loving children: Rosemary Tessier (Roger), Johanna Hurd (Edward), Richard Favro (Janette) and Terri Favro (Ronald); her ten cherished grandchildren Anne-Michelle Tessier; David, Jessica, Michael and Peter Hurd; Portia, Andrew and Wesley Favro; and Jacob and Joseph Edding; and two beloved great-granddaughters Emma and Olivia Hurd. She was predeceased by her husband, Attilio Favro, in 1994 and her brother, Louis Scrocchi in 2000. Fernanda was born in northern Italy in the town of Castel San Giovanni on February 5, 1922. She came to Canada at the age of four with her mother, Rosa Scrocchi, to join her father, Paolo Scrocchi. She lived in the north end of St. Catharines from 1926 until 1998, when she moved to Toronto to be closer to her family. Fernanda graduated from St. Catharines Collegiate Institute in 1939, with Honours in a Commercial Program (Secretarial Sciences). In school, she met Attilio "T" Favro, whose family also came from northern Italy. She and "T" were married in August of 1944. She worked as a bookkeeper/secretary until she had her first child in August 1945. Hers was very much a life spent loving and caring for others. She will be missed. Special thanks to the 3B nursing staff of Weston Terrace in Toronto. Visitation will be held at George Darte Funeral Home, 585 Carlton Street. St. Catharines on Thursday March 30th from 10 a.m.- 12 p.m., immediately followed by funeral mass at St. Alfred's Church, 272 Vine Street at 12:30 p.m. Cremation has taken place. Friends and family are invited to a reception after mass in the Kristen French Fellowship Hall at the funeral home. A private family burial will take place at a later date at Victoria Lawn Cemetery .Memorial donations can be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association.