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Marilyn Dritto Obituary
Marilyn F. Dritto, 67, of Stuarts Draft, died on Tuesday, May 18, 2010, at University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville.
She was born on September 6, 1942, in Martinsburg, West Virginia, a daughter of Robert and Mamie Dedrick Sirbaugh.
Marilyn loved her pets, gardening, stenciling, and doing cross-stitch. She also loved her job as a caregiver for the elderly.
In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her two brothers and two sisters.
Surviving are her husband, Michael Dritto, and her daughter, Kimberly Keesecker, both of Stuarts Draft; five sons, Todd Keesecker of Stuarts Draft, Dean Keesecker of Inwood, West Virginia, Rusty Keesecker of Harrisonburg, Michael Parker of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Rodney Parker of Greensboro, North Carolina; seven grandchildren, David, Daniel and Corey Tatum, Jeff, Britteny and Alley Keesecker, and Christina and Michael Parker Jr.
A service will be conducted 11 a.m. Saturday, May 22, 2010, at McDow Funeral Home by the Reverend Thomas Leland. Interment will follow at Augusta Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends from 7 until to 8 p.m. Friday, May 21, 2010, at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, P.O. Box 50, Memphis, TN 38101-9929.
Condolences may be expressed online at www.mcdowfuneralhomeinc.com.
This obituary was originally published in the News Virginian.
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