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LENA GUARNERE Obituary

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LENA (nee Ricciardi), age 94, on March 17, 2014. Wife of the late Augustus Sr.; beloved mother of Joseph (Joanne) Guarnere, Josephine (Rick) Dean, Gloriann (David) Ware, Caroline (John) Barone, Michael, John (Mary Ann), Frank, (the late Patricia) Guarnere, the late Eugene (the late Joanna), Agustus Jr., and Anthony. Survived by her daughter-in-law, Barbara; 17 grandchildren, 17 great grand-children; sisters, Julia Vitale and Anne Lombardi.
Relatives and friends are invited to her Viewing Friday, 6 to 8 P.M., St. Edmond Church, 21st St. and Snyder Ave., Phila. 19145 and Saturday, 10:30 A.M. Funeral Mass 11:30 A.M. Int. Calvary Cem., Cherry Hill NJ. Family requests donations to St. Edmond Church. RUFFENACH

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Published by Philadelphia Inquirer/Philadelphia Daily News on Mar. 19, 2014.

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Cathi Varano

March 15, 2024

Happy Anniversary, Lee. I just want you to know you are missed. I hope you and Cacie are making the cookies and, hopefully, sweet Lance is by your side once more. Love you, Lee. God bless you. Chickie

Julie Ricciardi Bunn

March 13, 2024

Hey sis, I always think about you. So glad I have some memories. Thank you for having such a big heart. Love, Julie

Cathi Arra Varano

March 14, 2023

Happy Anniversary, Lee. I hope you are glad to have your beautiful daughter by your side. Please give everyone my love, especially my parents, Rita and Gabe and Donna. I think of you often, Lee, and the wonderful times growing up on Croskey Street. You were always very loving to me, and it will never be forgotten. God bless you, Gus and all of your family and kisses to my Cacie. XO

Danielle

February 23, 2023

You´re my angel Nan. Thank you for protecting me. I love you to the moon and back .

Danielle

December 16, 2022

Good night, God bless you, I love you.

Cathi Varano

March 13, 2021

Dear Lee, I know Cacie always kept in touch with you through this Guest Book. It meant a lot to her to be able to communicate with you all these years after your death. Cacie missed you so very much. Now that she has passed, your beautiful daughter is finally back in your arms—right where she has been longing to be. I am so happy for both of you, Lee. It’s sad when mothers and daughters are separated, but such an extraordinary day when they meet again. I hope you two are laughing and possibly making pizzelle. Please watch over your faithful friends and relatives down here and up there. Please tell Helen and Joe and Mary and John that their daughters miss them too. God bless you, Gus, and Cacie. Enjoy this time together! Love, Chickie

Caroline Barone

August 22, 2020

mommy,
I know the 17th has come on gone but I haven't forgotten you. It is now 6 years and 5 months that you are gone. I still miss you like crazy and have been in all summer long since that dreaded day June 5th!! I know I haven't been to the cemetery also and I miss going there to bring you roses. I'm always out of breath and on oxygen now. One day i will get there. Its been a very hot summer and the world is still turned up-side down. Give hugs to all of my loved ones up there
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline
xxxooo

Caroline Barpme

July 23, 2020

Mommy,
the 17th of July has passed and its been 6 years and 4 months since you passed away. I didn't forget you, just been dealing with all thats going on with me, called doctor to confim what i heard June 5th. I guess it took a couple of months for me to accept what I heard. So, all you guys will be getting another member up there. Today, the 23rd daddy passed away 17 years ago. Miss him so much also and love you all.
Love always and forever, your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

April 28, 2020

Mommy,
A very sad day for us down here, but you have gained another angel up there, Aunt Annie passed away today all by herself! The one who always wanted family around her had to go out of this world with no one around her because of the situation going on down here on earth. She is in a much better place than all of us, so are all of you up there.
Please welcome her with a big hug and kiss from me. I loved her sooo much, she looked so much like you and my eyes would fill up anytime i went to see her. I luv you and miss you.
Love, Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Carolinexxxooo

April 20, 2020

Mommy,
I'm so sorry, I'm 3 days late. Its been 6 years and 1 month since you have been gone. I haven't been feeling so good and getting worried now. please watch over me as I know you always do. Give daddy and all my loved ones up there a big hug and please watch over all of us down here with this virus.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline

Caroline Barone

March 16, 2020

Mommy,
I can't believe its gonna be 6 years tomorrow that you are gone!! I saw your house (from the outside) when we dropped Michael off on Thursday, tears just welled in my eyes and I can never go in there, knowing your not there. I felt so sick to my stomach. Please you and dad, watch over Michael. This world, as you can see, is turned upside down right now with corona virus and things are not looking so good. Please protect all your loved ones down here. I hope to make it to the cemetary tomorrow. I miss you and love you so much.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend,Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

February 17, 2020

Mommy,
Its been 5 years and 11 months, miss you so much.
Please watch over me as I get my tests tomorrow and next week, say your novenas for me, like you always did. I can't believe its gonna be 6 years next month!! Please also watch over your baby boy Frankie and also Michael. I worry about them both and so sorry I can't help them out with my illness. I luv you and daddy and miss all my love ones up there.
Love Always and Forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend forever xxxooo

Caroline Barone

January 17, 2020

Mommy,
its been 5 years and 10 months since ur gone. Today Anthony is gone 16 years and his birthday, a few days ago, he would have been 65. Please give him a hug and kiss from me, I miss him soooo much! I hope you all had a big celebration up there. I haven't been feeling so well with the shingles! I don't know how you did it when you got it, having children to take care of!! It is the worse pain ever and i'm still feeling it over 4 weeks. I miss all my loved ones up there and have been thinking of each and every one every day this week! I luv you!
Love Always and Forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend xxxooo

Caroline Barone

December 21, 2019

Mommy,
don't think for one second that I have forgotten you!!
I know its the 21st and you've been gone 5 years and 9 months on the 17th and you know I have been sick with the Shingles, of all things, a week before Christmas!! Thank God for Johnny, He went to the cemenetery for me today as I promised you, I would never leave an empty grave. I luv you and miss you and daddy terribly, all of my loved ones especially around this time of year. Please pray for me to heal from this horrible shingles. I luv you
Love Always and Forever, Caroline
your baby girl and best friend xxxooo

Caroline Barone

November 17, 2019

Mommy,
Its me again. 5 years, 8 months today. I'm missing you so much as I listen to old Christmas songs and think of the beautiful memories you and daddy made for all of us! I'm missing you more that the holidays are coming around. Michael is coming over for lunch tomorrow. and Tuesday I get my catscan and see the doctor to see whats going on with my lymph nodes. I really enjoyed not getting chemo for 6 months and don't know whats gonna happen. My hair has been coming in. We are gonna celebrate Aunt Annie's 98th birthday on Wednesday!! Can you believe it?? She looks just like you and I tear up when I look into her light blue beautiful eyes, the same eyes as you, that I kept staring into when you were in the hospital and hospice, I didn't want you to ever forget me and me you, when we meet again, I will never forget my mother's eyes! I luv you and will keep you in my heart as I make your pumpkin pies soon. Please watch over me on Tuesday.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

October 17, 2019

Mommy,
its 5 years and 7 months today, the weeks, months and years are just flying by. Not feeling so good today, got my flu shot yesterday. I get my MRI next wednesday to check my brain tumors, I know you and daddy will be watching over me. I have had a long break from chemo, cos it made me so sick but I guess will eventually go back on it as the tumors in my lymph nodes aren't just gonna disapear or will they?? Keep me in your prayers, as usual, as I keep you and all up above in my heart always.
Love your baby girl and best friend forever,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

September 24, 2019

Mommy,
Yesterday would have been your 100th birthday!
I wasn't feeling too good but I went to the cemetery today with coral roses for you. I luv and miss you so much. I know there had to be a big celebration up there for you with all our loved ones and that makes me smile. I hope you are happy with me trying to make some peace, you know what I mean. Sometimes, I doubt the decisions I make and look towards heaven to get approval from you.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

September 18, 2019

Mommy,
Its been 5 years and 6 months on the 17th. It was a really hectic weekend, as you know, with Andrea getting her appendix out. Thank you for watching over my baby. Thank you also for continuing to watch over me with ur powerful prayers and novenas, that I know you say, as I received great news about me on Tuesday, at least for the time being. I still miss you lots and feel you have been around lately this past weekend and week. Your birthday is coming up on Monday and you would have been 100 years old!! Please give daddy a hug and kiss from me, as I miss him also. Give all my loved ones up there a hug, miss all of them and thankful that I have so many beautiful angels watching over my family.
Love always and forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend
xxxooo

Caroline Barone

August 19, 2019

Mommy,
its been 5 years and 5 months August 17th and I haven't forgotten you to write in here, its just been pretty hectic with Johnny getting an operation and Andrea moving back in our house on Saturday. I have been doing alot to help out and its wearing me out but I'm trying. I miss you like crazy. I love you and miss you and daddy lots and will talk more next month.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

July 18, 2019

Mommy,
Yesterday, the 17th, was 5 years and 4 months since your gone. I been having so many dreams of you!! I know you are watching over me. I have taken a break from chemo, 2 months already, cos i was so weak and sick and I have another 3 months off, altogether 5 months!! I hope the doctor knows what he is doing! My hair is starting to sprout up just in time for me to start up chemo again and lose it, lol. I get the tumors on my brain checked August 6th, so please ask God for a big favor please. I miss you as always as I miss all our loved ones, been dreaming of daddy also. Been staying in alot as we have been in a horrible heat wave the last two weeks. Please give everyone a hug for me up there.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxooo

caroline Barone

June 17, 2019

mommy,
its 5 years and 3 months and yes, I'm still counting and still missing you. I have been on a break from my chemo for 2 months cos I was so weak and sick but will be going back on it July 16th. I just hope it hasn't gotten bigger and spread!! I didn't make it to the cemetery yesterday for Father's day, cos believe it or not - after almost 5 weeks of not getting chemo, it is still affecting me and I'm in bed alot. I thought I would be feeling 100%, but i guess it takes alot of time to get it out of your system? Anyway, give daddy a big hug from me and I will make it there sometime this week.
Love Always and Forever,
your best friend and baby girl, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

May 16, 2019

Mommy,
Its 5 years and 2 months tomorrow the 17th. I still haven't made it to the cemertery for Mother's Day because of not feeling well, but I promise I will get there. We have been having alot of rain lately, that has held me back also.
I miss you lots and all of you up there have been on my mind alot lately.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

May 11, 2019

Mommy,
Tomorrow is Mother's Day and evn though I haven't made it to the cemetery yet, I will, hopefully, after Mother's Day. You know of course I'm thinking of you always, just have been in bed alot lately and not feeling up to anything. I know you are watching over me by the beautiful Cardinals that come to visit outside my fence. I don't have to tell you what a wonderful mother you were to all your children. You were very hard working and I was remembering the jobs you took on also to help out with putting some of us through Catholic school which wasn't cheap. I luv you so much and miss you so much and want to wish you a beautiful mothers day in heaven with your mom.
I Love you Always and Forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend
xxxooo

Caroline Barone

April 17, 2019

Mommy,
its 5 years and 1 month today that you are gone.
Of course I miss you more than ever and have been talking to you alot, as you well know. I now have 4 malignant brain tumors and was so taken back at
this. I thought that I had one, but 4!!! I'm still getting chemo for my lung (Cancer in my lymph nodes) and now also have to get 3 sesssion of cyberknife to my brain next week for just one of the tumors. The other 3 are still small yet. Please ask God, as I have, to let those other 3 stay small and not grow and for the cyberknife to help this one tumor that are doing. I have been praying alot. Doctors keep telling me God doesn't want up there, for some reason I needed here on earth. They are right, I had to be here for you and now my beautiful daughter and so helpful husband. I went to the cementery last week with the palm crosses and your lily plant. I don't know how I made it as its getting harder for me to get around. Joanne and Mary Anne came to visit with me today and Mary Anne brought her mom along to surprise me. She looks great. They brought alot of goodies, soup, cakes, pizza, sandwiches. It was very nice but I wanted to just crawl into bed. Michael is coming by tomorrow, he said if I'm up to it. He is also coming over for Easter and to my first cyberknife treatment the next day. I know you are watching over me I got your signs but please just keep praying for me. I luv you and all my loved ones.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

March 16, 2019

Mommy,
tomorrow, March 17th, will be 5 long years that
you are gone and I'm still broken!! I talk to you
everynite and I do get signs from you, thank you.
I miss talking to you everyday like 2-3 times a day and visiting with you 2-3 times a week but mostly I miss when you used to sleep over and I would have you in my bed to watch when you would have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the nite, etc. and I missed holding your hand in that bed all nite long. I was lucky to have all the time I did with you in my life, more lucky than others and I thank God for that. There is not a day that goes by that I picture your beautiful face and wise words you left to me. I cherish all your picture albums and just now realize how you kept up and put every picture in books by years. I haven't really gone through them all yet, there are so many and I can't bring myself to look through them yet, even after 5 years, but know they are well taken care of as I know you cherished those pictures also. I will love you til my last breath and then some. I love you.
Love always and forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best
friend always xxxooo

Caroline Barone

February 17, 2019

Mommy,
Its 4 years and 11 months since you have been gone and yes, of course, I still miss you lots! Alot has been going on, as you know, I cannot get the proton therapy, which is kind of a relief to me as I have been praying for the right answer and talking to you also. I go back to Fox Chase this tuesday and will be told when I will start yet another chemo!! I know you will be with me in spirit. I love you so much!
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

January 17, 2019

Mommy,
4 years and 10 months, still counting the days how much I still miss you. Thank you for being by my side today when I got the last of my tests and now await the doctor's call if its a go. Thank you also for my 2 best friends, who are sisters to me, who pray, like you always did and watch out for me. I will always cherish you and them always. Also, Joanne, my older sister, she always checks on me and prays also. I luv you and miss you as always. Today, I can't believe it, Anthony is gone 15 years!!! Seems like it was yesterday, I will never forget that horrible day and what you went thru.
Love always and forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend xxxooo

Caroline Barone

January 1, 2019

Mommy,
Just wanted to wish you and everyone in heaven a happy New Year. I'm not starting on the right foot this year, but I'm trying and we will see what happens. Love you.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend forever,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

December 26, 2018

Mommy, Daddy and all my loved ones,
I just wanted to wish you all a merry christmas, a day late, I wasn't feeling good. I miss you all
so much, Christmas isn't the same without all of you.
Love Always and Forever,
Caroline xxxooo

Jeanette Sarne

December 20, 2018

Hi Lee I know quite a few people have been talking to you about your little girl Caroline, please continue to watch over her and send her the signs she needs to know that you're with her ... I know how much she misses you and wishes you were here with her .. please continue to pray for a miracle they usually happens around Christmas time give her the strength she needs and asked the Lord our God to heal her .. I know you've probably seen my mom up there along with my dad and brother give them a hug and kiss for me let them know how much I love and miss them ... i'm sure Christmas is beautiful in heaven but we'd much rather have all of you down here with us .. i'll talk to you again soon love you all.. Merry Christmas ❤

Catherine Varano

December 19, 2018

Hi Lee,
I just read Cacie's post, and I want to put your mind at ease that your old friends, Catherine Arra (haha) and Jeanette Falcone are looking out for her and care deeply about her. We, along with other family and friends, are praying that some miracle treatment will finally give her some rest from all the hardship she's been through. I know there's some doctor out there who will find the miracle she needs. It just takes patience and prayers, and we have a lot of that. If you see my Aunt Minnie D'Auria up there, please ask her to pray some of her special prayers for Cacie. In the meantime, Lee, we will be by the side of your little, precious Caroline. We love her. Take care Lee and hi to Gus and the boys! And, if you see my parents and Rita, give them a kiss for me. Love you.

Caroline Barone

December 18, 2018

Mommy,
Yesterday, the 17th, was 4 years, 9 months since you have been gone. Christmas is right around the corner, didn't decorate as much as I usually do cos of how I feel but it stills looks christmasy in here. Well, I got the result of my liquid biopsy last nite and the doctor said there is no targeted new drug cos I don't have the genes they need. He said if I'm not a candidate for Proton Therapy, he will have other options. More chemo, which I thought he said I did too many of but now saying doing longer, which is a trip to Fox every week, we will see. Please look out for me and pray that I can get the Proton. I miss you and you know I have been talking to you alot and have been down, but I pulled myself together and I have to fight this. I miss you and daddy and our love ones more than ever especially this time of year. I made it to the cemetery to put the grave blankets and give you your pointsettia that I always got you on Christmas. Been getting to some stores for Christmas, but its very hard. Andrea asked when did I turn into this old lady? You gotta laugh, I have been this way for over 5 years now, I guess she didn't notice or doesn't want to accept the reality her mother is sick. I walk so slow and so out of breath. Well, enough whining, I love you and wish you were here, not to see me suffering but to have you just hold me in your arms and tell me everything is gonna be ok.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

Jeanette Sarne

November 22, 2018

Happy heavenly Thanksgiving LEE continue to watch over your baby girl Carolyn.... please give my mom and dad my brother Ronald a big hug and kiss for me .. all of you are missed and loved so much ..❤

Caroline Barone

November 21, 2018

Mommy,
the 17th was 4 years and 8 months. Thank you for watching over me, I got the signs from the red cardinal on my fence. Still have to deal with what i'm going thru but will get thru the holidays first. Thinking of you alot today as I made your delicious pumpkin pies! Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and it will be a quiet one as always, miss the days of your Thanksgiving dinners, to this day, I will never know how you did it all! I invited Michael as I always do but he is not gonna make it, maybe for desert he said, lol. I miss you and Daddy and all my loved ones, you have all been on my mind and in my heart.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

October 16, 2018

Mom,
Tomorrow is 4 years and 7 months you have left us and the pain of losing you hasn't stopped. I miss you like crazy. I know that you know I'm gonna be going through more treatment for the 8th time in 15 and a half years, so please look over me with daddy and all our loved ones up there. This is getting harder for me since I am getting older, but I'm still fighting. A bit tired of all this and just wish I could have 1 month of feeling perfectly normal (Pre-Cancer), oh the things I would do in that 1 month!! I love you and can feel your arms around me as I sit here typing this. Give daddy a hug and kiss from me.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

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Caroline Barone

September 26, 2018

Caroline Barone

September 26, 2018

Mommy,
Sept. 23rd was your 99th birthday! Happy birthday in Heaven, I'm sure you were celebrating with all our loved ones up there, seems to be more up there than down here :(

I tried to make it to the cemetery but it has been raining alot this week, still gonna make it one day, haven't been feeling so great also. I love you and miss you so much and preparing to go into battle again with the big "C". I know you and daddy will be watching over me.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

September 18, 2018

Mommy,
It has been 4 yrs and 6 months yesterday that you have been gone. You know I am going through alot just 1 year after completing Chemo. Cancer seems to be coming back alot sooner now so here I go again with my 8th chemo coming up in a few months. Can't you pull some strings up there for me?? I love and miss you and have been very down, times like this, you want your mommy. Your birthday is coming up also on the 23rd. Have to try to get to cemetery, haven't been feeling so well. I love you with all my heart and miss you terribly.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

August 18, 2018

Mommy,
Yesterday, the 17th of August, was 4 years and 5 months since you are gone. I'm feeling very depressed and crying all morning. Looking for a sign for you, just to let me know you are listening to me. I have just been thinking so much, maybe too much. Alot of changes are coming with me and my cancer. My oncologist that I had for 15 years is leaving Fox Chase and that upset me cos I felt he stayed on top of my cancer with constant testing and I feel now this is the end for me, can't explain. Also, thinking of family, especially my "baby" brother Frankie, who I haven't seen since we buried you 4 years and 5 months ago. We were so close and I worry about him alot. I was the one who was his caretaker, so to say, when I was 10 years old, lol. You know what I mean. Please look out for me mom and give all my loved ones up there a hug and kiss from me. I luv you and daddy very much and miss you more than ever today.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline
xxxooo

Caroline Barone

July 17, 2018

Mommy,
Today is 4 years, 4 months since you have been gone. They say it gets easier, but I really don't know. I think of you all the time and when John plays music, especially Sinatra, I start to cry and think of you cos you had every Sinatra album like we do, in CD's. You loved music so much and that is where most of your children got their love of music, especially me. I have been watching alot of old musical movies, which you also liked and got me into, besides old black and white movies. You will always be in my heart and on my mind til my last breath. I love you and miss you, daddy also and my other departed family, especially Anthony, who always held a special part in my heart.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

June 20, 2018

Mommy,
A few days late, the 17th was 4 years, 3 months since you are gone and it was also Father's Day.
Give daddy a big hug and kiss from me and tell him I love him, even though I did tell him when John and I went to the cemetery for Father's Day.
It has been getting hot here now finally, but sadly, my respiratory system can't take it. I have been in alot, wish I can go to the beach and take trips like I used to before, I can use a tropical vacation and just float on teal blue water! I miss you like crazy and had a dream or something of you, that you got in my bed beside me and were waking me up (as I did) and you kept asking me what was the date you got married cos you couldn't remember, I kept saying Mom, 2-14, don't you remember. It was weird. Anyway, I took that as a sign that you wanted me to play that number, lol, which I did, but it didn't come out. I am never good with the lottery, thats why I don't play it, lol. Anyway, don't know what the dream meant but I always think of you, daddy and our loved ones and miss all of you. My baby also moved out of our house on May 22. I shouldn't say baby cos she will be 34, but she will always be my baby, no matter how old. You always called her the baby too. I miss her, but kind of see her more than when she lived with us, which is strange, but I love it. Please keep coming to me like you did with the red cardinal a couple of weeks ago when I needed you and asked for a sign that you heard me. That red cardinal comes right out my kitchen window on the fence and looks right at me for a split second, then takes off, lol. I know its you.
Love always and forever, Caroline
your baby girl and best friend forever xxxooo

Caroline Barone

May 13, 2018

Happy Mother's day to my beautiful mother in heaven. I love and miss you so much. Cried all day yesterday looking through pictures of you to post on facebook. You were a great mother who dressed us so nicely, we were always clean, and so was your house, shoes polished, etc. You were a great baker of cookies, which I will never be. You always had us bring a friend down the shore for a week during the summer, even though you had enough kids of your own,you were so patient!! You would take us to Steel Pier every Friday for the whole day with about 40 of our friends, who called you mom, that we were friends with in AC. If I could be just a quarter of the mother you were to me that would be great. Lots of memories today and I will always keep them in my heart, no one can ever take that away from me. I love you mom.
Love always and forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend forever xxxooo

Caroline Barone

April 25, 2018

Mommy,
I didn't forget that April 17th was 4 years, 1 month since you have been gone and I haven't forgotten about you. Things have been really hectic around here as you can see and I won't go into details as I know you see all. I luv you and miss you. Please watch over my family right now.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend , Caroline xxooo

Cathi Varano

April 4, 2018

Hi Lee, Just reading Cacie's note to you brought back so many memories of Croskey Street and Easter Sunday. We were all excited to wear our new outfits, and it was a special day. You were amazing though. You dressed all of your children so beautifully from the oldest to the babies. Now that I'm older, I appreciate how challenging that must have been with so many to dress. The work you did each day washing, ironing, polishing their shoes, styling their hair and finding all those gorgeous outfits for them. You were a wonder, Lee, and a dedicated, loving mother. I was and am still in awe of you. Love you and please kiss my wonderful parents and sister when you see them!

Caroline Barone

April 3, 2018

Mommy and Daddy,
Thinking about you on Easter alot. You, daddy, buying the big coconut easter eggs and rabbits, etc. at Mayo's on 17th and Snyder. You, mommy, baking all those delicious pies, to which I have all the receipes, and dressing us up so beautifully. The girls with our easter bonnets, the boys, younger ones, in their little suits. You always took care of us and kept polished shoes, a clean house, and dinner always on the table. You were the best mother anyone can have and the neighbors bragged about how your kids were so well dressed, clean and respectful. I remember us on the front porch and you would be sitting with a glass of water and me standing in between your legs and you would just dip your finger in the water and make long curls in my hair. My best friend Cathy next door, who was waiting for me to go to grade school, used to watch and wanted you to do her hair, lol. You just had that special touch. I love you and daddy to the moon and back and miss you guys so much!
Love Always and Forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend
xxxooo

Caroline Barone

March 16, 2018

mommy,
tomorrow, March 17th, St. Patty's Day, will be 4 long years since you have left us. I miss you terribly and have been trying to get to the cemetery with roses, etc. We have been having alot of Nor'Easters and expecting a 4th one early next week. You are constantly on my mind, especially today and tomorrow. I'm glad you had some of your loved ones there, holding your hand and whispering in your ear that we love you as you were taking your last breath, which also took my breath away and my heart. I whispered in your ear that it was ok to go with daddy and your other loved ones and not to worry about me, cos I know all those years you did worry about me with cancer. I know you are still watching over me and that gives me a weird sense of comfort. I'll love you and daddy always and forever. Auggie, also will be gone 27 years on March 21st! Gone so young, 45 like Gina and Pat and Anthony at 49 :(
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo



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Caroline Barone

February 19, 2018

Mommy,
The 17th was 3 years, 11 months since you have gone. I can't believe its gonna be 4 years next month!! On Feb. 14th, besides being your anniversary, it was 15 years that I was diagnosed with cancer and I'm still here! I also had my 66th birthday on the 8th, which of course, you know. I finally got myself to go out for a lunch with Joanne and Joyce for my birthday. My friends have been wanting to go to breakfast, lunch, whatever for over a year and I haven't gone with anyone yet except for Joanne. I'm just starting to feel myself alittle and hopefully I will get out with my friends soon. I miss you as usual and always talking to you, I know you hear me. I miss daddy also and my brothers, especially Anthony, and Gina. God, there are so many loved ones up there - Pat, Joni, I could go on and on. My doctor calls me an anomoly, can't spell it sorry. It's because I asked him how I am still here when so many in my family have passed and he called me that and said I am surpasssing all the odds of living yet with stage 4 lung cancer. I guess there is a reason, I know you kept me going, I had to be there for you and now I know my daughter needs me also. I love you.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

caroline Barone

February 14, 2018

Mommy and Daddy,
Happy Anniversary and Valentine's Day to both you lovebirds! The 2 romantics getting married on Valentines Day. I love and misss the both of you very much, especially today.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

January 8, 2018

Mommy,
I'm late in wishing you and daddy and all my loved ones a merry Christmas and happy new year. I got good news at Fox chase last wed. Jan. 3rd after my petscan, the doctor called and said nothing lit up which is good. Its been freezing here and have been staying in keeping warm. Can't take the outside decorations down cos they are frozen!! You have been on my mind alot, especially around the holidays, always thinking how you and daddy made my christmases so special when I was young. I woke up last week, saying to myself "I have to call my mother", that was so weird, especially since its almost 4 years your gone :(
I love you,
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

December 17, 2017

Mommy,
Its been 3 years and 9 months since you are gone and today, more than ever, you have been on my mind. Andrea and me made the ricotta cookies that you loved and peanut butter cookies. I made your pizzells the other day, Johnny, like daddy used to do, helped me by sitting there and pressing them out, lol. I am gonna attempt your oil and butter cookies on Tuesday. My back hurts but I'm doing alot. Makes me appreciate you more and more for all the cookies you made, filled and all, with all the kids you had, don't know how you did it, plus make raviolis and cavatelli!! I really miss you. I will be going to visit Aunt Annie finally tomorrow after a year! Maryanne is taking Joanne and me. Aunt Annie isn't gonna recognize me with my hair just coming in from chemo, she doesn't know I have cancer again and she will be crying when she sees Joanne cos, as you know, Duke has passed away and Aunt Annie was upset to hear that. I still can't believe he is gone!! Everything was just so fast! I'm sure you and daddy and everyone else was shocked to see him. Joanne has really been going through alot in 2 years, 10 months. Like you losing daddy then Anthony within 6 months! Give a hug to all my loved ones up there. I love you and miss you.
Love Always and Forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend.

Caroline Barone

November 18, 2017

Mommy,
November 17th marks 3 years and 8 months since you have gone. Thanksgiving is coming up this week and of course you are on my mind more than ever. I have to make your pumpkin pies tomorrow, had a minor set-back but feeling ok now. Sure do miss you and daddy and my brothers, etc. and thinking of all those beautiful thanksgiving dinners you made. I don't know how you did it all, God bless you! In my heart always and forever,
Love, your baby girl and best friend, Caroline
xxxooo

Caroline Barone

October 21, 2017

Mommy,
On the 17th it was 3 years and 7 months since you have been gone. It is now Fall, I love this time of year with the Fall colors but missing you so much. I am trying to get out a little more but still not 100%. I will be going back to Fox Chase in a few weeks (November) to deal with the cancer I have been ignoring. We lost our little Scooby on October 12th, and I never realized how hard it was losing a pet! Andrea is devastated as is Johnny and me. One day at a time, as they say. I finally made it to the cemetery a few weeks ago, late for your birthday, but put some roses and pumpkins and decorations on yours and daddy's graves and also Auggie and Anthony's. I love you as always, give daddy and my loved ones a kiss and hug from me.
Love Always and Forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend
xxxooo

Caroline Barone

September 22, 2017

Mommy,
tomorrow, Sept. 23rd, is your 98th birthday.
I miss you so much but know you're at peace and with daddy and ur loved ones. I'm still not myself and next week will be 2 months I'm off of chemo. I have a lot of people praying and lighting candles but it doesn't seem to be helping me, I need ur help please. More importantly, Aunt Annie needs ur help. She has this very bad rash all over her body that blistered and bleeds, I heard it's incurable. She doesn't deserve this at age almost 96. Please look out for her. Hoping to make it to the cemetery if even for a few minutes to place roses on ur grave.
I Love You,
Love your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

August 31, 2017

Mommy,
sorry I didn't write in here on August 17th, 3 years and 5 months that you have been gone. I haven't been feeling so good and I ended my chemo a month ago today. I'm still not in remission but cannot take chemo anymore, this one has really done a number on me and I need a break. I have been really depressed cos I have been in bed like 6 months and just want to feel normal and go out. I thought when I finished my chemo I would feel that way, but I still don't. I will see the doctor next week. Sorry for going on so much but I really need you to pull some strings up there for me. I miss you so much and still have to get to the cemetery. Next month is ur birthday and I really hope to get there.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

July 20, 2017

Mommy,
It's been 3 years and 4 month on July 17th. It has been very hot and I still haven't been well enough to get to the cemetery, but I will eventually. I know you have to know about the good news I received in June, that the new chemo helped but I still had to get 6 more, Its been brutal, but I'm down to 2 more and will be done in August. I thank you for watching over me and I miss you like crazy. Please continue your watch over me and Michael. I had him over a few times for lunch and when I feel much better will try to have him at least once a week. Give daddy and Anthony a big hug from me, I miss them as well as the others.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

June 20, 2017

Mommy,
I haven't forgotten about you. The 17th was 3 years, 3 months since you have gone. Father's Day has come and gone. Please give daddy a hug and kiss from me. I didn't make it to the cemetery again for Father's Day or Mother's Day. I know you totally understand how horrible I have been feeling. I'm really getting sick from this chemo and would love to stop it. I am awaiting the results of my test this Thursday to see if it is working, if it isn't, I don't know what happens. As I am writing this, for the second time, I feel awful! I miss you so much.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxooo

Anthony Mangano

May 16, 2017

I pray for her to be with God, & to pray for us here on earth. Prayers also for her family living & deceased for continued comfort.
Tony & Jay
(Michael's Friends)

Caroline Barone

May 15, 2017

Happy Mother's Day to my beautiful angel mom in heaven. So sorry I couldn't make it to the cemetery to place roses but I have been really taken down with the last chemo treatment I had. Hopefully, I will feel better soon and I will make it there. Know that you are in my heart and on my mind constantly. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for saving me Saturday nite. You looked so beautiful!!
Love Always and Forever, your baby girl
and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

April 17, 2017

Mommy,
It is 3 years and 1 month since you are gone. I want to wish you and daddy and all our loved ones up there a Happy Easter. Sorry, I didn't write this yesterday as I haven't been feeling so well. God knows what is in store for me as I go to the doctor this Wednesday. I haven't been on any treatment since March 22nd! They had to stop the Opdiva treatments after getting only 3 as it enlarged 2 of my lymph nodes and added a new spot on my left lung, besides messing up my thyroid! I miss you like crazy and in a way, glad that you don't see me like this or I wouldn't be able to come visit you cos I'm so weak and you would be more worried about me. Michael came to see me Easter morning, even though I said I wasn't up to company. I am glad he stopped though, I invited him to stay and eat with John and Andrea. John was cooking and I haven't been eating much. I feel so bad for him and I know you wanted me to watch over him when you were gone, but I'm worse now and I can't even imagine going into the house without you there. I'm sorry mommy, please understand. I can imagine what the house must look like and I know you were worried about that and about him. I'm sorry I couldn't keep my promise to you. I didn't think it would be this hard without you. I made it to the cementery with John on the spur of the moment to put fresh roses, a Lilly plant that I always bought you for Easter and Palm crosses for you and daddy, Anthony and Auggie's graves. I could hardly walk to your grave as I'm weak now. Please look over me. Alot of people are lighting candles, saying prayers, etc. but I don't think it is helping anymore.
I love you and wish I could go back about 30 years ago when I used to pick you up with baby Andrea and run around to the mall, stores, etc. I also miss daddy alot and glad you are with him now.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline
xxxooo

March 16, 2017

Mommy,
I love you

Caroline Barone

March 16, 2017

Mommy,
It will be 3 years that you are gone tomorrow, on St. Patty's Day. I will never forget the awful day when I had to see you take your last breath, I lost most of my heart that day. I miss you like crazy. I know you are watching the things I'm going thru right now and hope in some way you could or God could make it easier for me. I only had my 2nd treatment and it was the most horrible thing I went thru and I'm scared to get my 3rd one next week. I guess I should count my blessings right now that I can get this treatment (as of right now) cos if I get a bad reaction again, we will have to stop it, which I'm ready to do now. I wish you were here so I can hug you and get a hug back from you and tell me everything is gonna be ok. I will get to the cemetery next week as I was sick yesterday and it has been really cold out. I know you understand.
I love you Always and Forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend xxxooo

Caroline Barone

February 14, 2017

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad and Happy Valentine's Day also! Wow, would have been 79 years!! Sent a balloon up to heaven today with Michael and John, hope you got it. Today is also 14 years of me battling cancer and the battle still goes on so please look over me as I encounter a different treatment. I miss you guys like crazy and I think of you both everyday. It will also be 2 years and 11 months since you have gone mom on the 17th. I love you both.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

January 16, 2017

mommy,
tomorrow 1/17/17 will be 2 years and 10 months since you have been gone. Miss you like crazy. Please give Anthony a hug and kiss from me as I missed his birthday on Jan. 14th. I miss him so much also. Please watch over "our" Andrea and also me as I go thru a petscan on Feb. 1st. I love you forever and always,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend xxxooo

Caroline Barone

December 25, 2016

Merry Christmas Mom and Dad and all my beloved up in Heaven. Christmas is just not the same anymore without you. Missing you more than ever today and wishing I can get a sign from you. Please watch over me as I go for my petscan February. I love you all. Sorry, so short but I have been sick a couple of weeks.
Love always and forever, Caroline
your baby girl and best friend xxxooo

Caroline Barone

December 19, 2016

Mommy,
The 17th was 2 years and 9 months since you have been gone. I have been sick all last week and not feeling so good yet. Did't bake yet and might have to do it after the holidays. I go to Fox Chase on Wed. just hope I can make it thru the MRI without coughing! I know you will be there with me in spirit. You have been on my mind alot especially this time of year. We went to the cemetery last week, it was then that I got sick right afterward. I took care of Anthony's cup that holds flowers that was missing from his grave (the 2nd time). I went into the office to complain and they found it 2 days later and called me. I told you I would take care of the graves, lol. I love you and miss you and daddy always.
Love Always,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend
xxxooo

Caroline Barone

November 24, 2016

Happy Thanksgiving Mommy and Daddy and all my beloved in Heaven. Thinking of you especially today mom and wondering how in the world you cooked all those thanksgiving dinners for so many of us! As I place the raviolis in the ceramic bowl you made me, tears come to my eyes, as I wash that same bowl and meatball bowl, I notice the words "Mom" engraved underneath, and again tears come to my eyes. Your traditions, memories and most of all you will always be remembered. I miss you all and love you.
Love Always and forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend xxxooo

Caroline Barone

November 17, 2016

Tomorrow is daddy's birthday and he would have been 100 years old!! I remember when he was sick, he told everybody that he was gonna live until 100 :( Please give him a kiss and a big hug from me. I won't be able to make it to the cemetery tomorrow as I have been sick all week so I will let Johnny go buy me a mylar balloon and release it up to heaven where daddy and you are. I can't even make it to a dinner tonite with my best friends - Chickie (Cathi Arra) and the Falcones. It is really suppose to be nice and I would have loved to see them all, Lucy, Rose, Rose Marie and Anna Marie Belevadare! Hopefully another time we will get together cos I have finally been myself and they have patiently been waiting to get together. I luv you and miss you and will get to the Cemetery after Thanksgiving to put Chrismas Blankets, etc. Oh, we are having a luncheon for Aunt Annie's 95th birthday on November 26th at Rosetree. I have been talking to her but she is getting bad and I feel so down to even see her on her birthday cos Bonnie told me last nite how she just stares with the glazed eyes, those beautiful blue eyes like yours, and I know I will get so down seeing her like that, it will remind me of you cos she looks just like you. Yeah, Aunt Annie, who was so vibrant and running around all the time, I can't believe it!! She has been so depressed being far away from family. Please give me the strength to hold it together that day. Again, tell daddy "Happy Birthday".
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

November 12, 2016

Mommy,

Tomorrow is daddy's birthday and he would have been 100 years old!! I remember when he was sick, he told everybody that he was gonna live until 100 :( Please give him a kiss and a big hug from me. I won't be able to make it to the cemetery tomorrow as I have been sick all week so I will let Johnny go buy me a mylar balloon and release it up to heaven where daddy and you are. I can't even make it to a dinner tonite with my best friends - Chickie (Cathi Arra) and the Falcones. It is really suppose to be nice and I would have loved to see them all, Lucy, Rose, Rose Marie and Anna Marie Belevadare! Hopefully another time we will get together cos I have finally been myself and they have patiently been waiting to get together. I luv you and miss you and will get to the Cemetery after Thanksgiving to put Chrismas Blankets, etc. Oh, we are having a luncheon for Aunt Annie's 95th birthday on November 26th at Rosetree. I have been talking to her but she is getting bad and I feel so down to even see her on her birthday cos Bonnie told me last nite how she just stares with the glazed eyes, those beautiful blue eyes like yours, and I know I will get so down seeing her like that, it will remind me of you cos she looks just like you. Yeah, Aunt Annie, who was so vibrant and running around all the time, I can't believe it!! She has been so depressed being far away from family. Please give me the strength to hold it together that day. Again, tell daddy "Happy Birthday".

Love always and forever,

your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

October 21, 2016

Mommy,
Its been 2 years and 7 months on the 17th of October and I'm sorry I missed the date by 4 days. That doesn't mean I have forgotten you, I miss you more than ever. I am still walking every day, 7 days a week, since August 22nd and it has helped me alot to cope with losing you. I went to lunch with Edna on Tues. and she couldn't get over how well I was. The last time I saw her, I was so depressed and just crying. She asked if I went to see a counselor or if I was on meds for my depression but told her, I just coped with it in my own way. I think after seeing your house for the first time (only the outside) in June and breaking down so bad to the point of vomiting, just took it all out of me and it seems I can now talk about you with a smile on my face, but still sadness in my heart, it has just been easier to cope since maybe the end of August into September. It doesn't, by all means, mean I have forgotten you, I love you with all my heart til the moment I take my last breath and then some.
I know you have to be looking over me and must be proud of me. Please watch over Michael and I'm so sorry I couldn't go in that house and can't help out with Michael. I still do get out of breath and need Johnny's help with any chore in my house, he does it mostly. Next month is aunt Annie's 95th birthday and I will be going to a luncheon with my cousins to the place where she is staying. I feel so bad for her, I call her every Monday, like I promised her I would do,
I sent her a card telling her this, but she can't hear very well and seems to be going down hill fast, yes, Aunt Annie who was so independent and always running around. I see you in her alot, she has the same beautiful light blue eyes and looks more and more like you. I love you mom.
Love Always your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

September 22, 2016

Mommmy,
Its your birthday today and I wanted to wish you a happy birthday, I just wish it could be in person. Michael, John and me went to the cemetery and I put beautiful coral and white roses on your grave. I hope you got the balloon I sent up to heaven for you. You are truly missed and loved and I know you are celebrating your day with daddy and all your loved ones up there in Heaven. I love you with all my heart and will forever til my last breath.
Love Always, Caroline, your baby girl and best friend forever xxxooo

Cathi Varano

September 19, 2016

Hi Lee, I know your birthday is coming up, and I just wanted to wish you a happy one for all the many times you made me happy as a child. I will never forget your motherly ways to me and the love you had for everyone. Your beautiful daughter Caroline is keeping your memory alive every day. You will never be forgotten, because you raised an angel who thinks of you every day. I hope you will be celebrating your happy day with Gus and your sons and all your family and good friends. Please say hi for me to my Mom, Dad, and Rita. I hope they will come to the party! Love you Lee! Cathi XO

Caroline Barone

September 16, 2016

Mommy,
Tomorrow will be 2 and 1/2 years that you have been gone and do I have to say it - I miss you so much. I seem to be getting out of my depression, that doesn't mean, I have forgotten you, cos I still think of you night and day but I have finally gotten myself dressed every morning and I started walking. I'm sure you see me, this puts my mind at ease and I talk to you as I walk, I know you must be proud of me and you would want me to be this way. My pulmonary doctor wanted me to have all these tests done on my heart and I know my heart if ok, the only thing wrong with it is that it is broken since you left me. I'm proving the doctor wrong by walking and also to show you that I'm getting better for you. Your birthday is coming up next week and that is so hard, you would have been 97 and I know we all can't last forever but in our minds, we NEVER want our mothers to leave us. Please keep watching over me and my family. I luv you forever and always.
Love your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

August 17, 2016

Mommy,
It is 2 years and 5 months today. Still miss you more than ever and love you so much. Talked to Aunt Annie today, I feel so bad, she is getting more confused and can't hear that well. After this summer, hoping to get to go back and see her. It has still been so hot to go to the cemetary and I'm sorry I haven't been there with roses for you. I know you understand that I can't breath in this heat. I will be going for my breathing test on Monday.
Please watch over your sister as she seemed so down.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

July 17, 2016

Mommy,
It is 2 years and 4 months today. I couldn't get to the cemetery today cos it has been so hot out this month of July. I'm hoping to get there on July 23rd, the day dad passed, 13 years ago! I miss you guys like crazy. I just got out of bed from sleeping a couple of hours, my past time when I'm feeling down. I wish I could just sit and talk with you. I do in spirit but its not the same. Sometimes you just need your mommy to put her arms around you and tell you that everything is gonna be okay. Miss and love you and daddy and the others up there.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

June 19, 2016

Mommy,
Yesterday was 2 years and 3 months since you have been gone and it doesn't get easier. Today is Father's Day and I also miss daddy. Please give him a big hug and kiss from me. I have some good news to tell you - I went to fox chase last week and I am finally being put on a 6 month check up after 13 years of going every 2-3 months!! I know that you guys are watching over me. I was so happy but then so down when we had to drive Michael home from fox chase, since he walked to meet us in the morning but then it was raining when we came home. We pulled into your street and I just broke down seeing your house, and I didn't even go inside, I couldn't control myself and was at the point of throwing up, I was so upset. I also looked across the street at Aunt Julie's house. It was so sad and I felt so bad for Michael, I am so sorry mom that I can't go in that house, please forgive me for that and not looking after Michael. I love and miss you guys so much.
Love always and forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend xxxooo

Caroline Barone

May 22, 2016

Mommy,
I know I'm 4 days late in writing this, I have just been out of it sorry. You are gone 2 years and 2 months on May 18th and my heart still aches for you. Michael is gonna be 60 years old on Tuesday! I can't believe it. Maryanne had a birthday dinner for him (surprise) today at Poppies but I couldn't make it. Poppies brings back so many memories of taking you there for lunch, etc. John and me will be taking Michael out another day this week, hopefully. I will be going to Fox chase the 8th of June, please watch over me and say the prayers and novena you always said to keep me in remission. I love you always and forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend
xxxooo

Caroline Barone

May 7, 2016

Mommy,
Just came back from the cemetery and I feel so empty! Tomorrow is Mother's Day and I miss you so much. Its a dark, cloudy day but when I started to talk to you and as I was crying, the sun came out for a minute or so until I walked away from your grave, then it got dark again, it was really weird and I know it was you shining down on me. I was up all nite thinking how I want to write on facebook about my beautiful mother. I have been thinking all day also how, of all those pictures albums you have, with the thousands of pics in them, there is not one of you holding any of your 10 children as infants or toddlers. I know its because, the mother is the one always taking the pictures, I just wish there was one of you holding me. I'm doing alot of thinking today and questioning myself - saying did I show you this or did I tell you that. Mother's Day is so hard for me and I'm sure for others who lost their mom. I will be going back to the cemetery this week, taking Michael as he couldn't make it today. I will release a balloon to you tomorrow as I forgot to take them to the cemetery. I know you are truly a Saint mom in heaven. I love you forever and always.
Love your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

April 16, 2016

Mommy,
Tomorrow will be 2 years and 1 month since you left us. Needless to say, the hurt and pain still linger in my mind and heart. Aunt Annie had a close call and I thought she was gonna be joining you guys. She had a massive heart attach and is still in ICU. I feel so bad for her being alone in the assisted living place. I pray she finds peace. Our little Scooby isn't doing too well either and this will tear Andrea apart as this is her only link to Kenny. Please watch over Aunt Annie and Scooby both. I hope to make it to the cemetery tomorrow or Monday to bring you some roses. Its gonna be a beautiful day out. I only wish I was going to visit you in South Philly like I did every Tues and Thurs. I so looked forward to those visits and miss your smile when I walked in and those beautiful blue eyes that sparkled when we talked. Please give daddy and Anthony a hug and kiss from me, also Gina, Pat, Joni, Auggie and the others. I love you forever and always.
Love your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

This is the only comfort I get, knowing you are with daddy and your family

Caroline Barone

March 23, 2016

Mommy,
Here we go again for the 4th time. I wrote in here on March 17th being 2 years you had passed away. It was so hard that day, I kept picturing you in the hospital and St. Monica's. We went to visit Aunt Annie at her new place in Media yesterday and it broke my heart when we left her. She looks so much like you and when I was talking to her, I noticed she has the same beautiful light blue eyes that you have.
I love you for Always and Forever,
Your baby girl, Caroline
xxxooo

March 17, 2016

I Luv and Miss you so much!

Caroline Barone

February 27, 2016

Mommy,
Thinking so much about you today. I didn't write to you on the 17th of Feb., it being 1 year and 11 months you passed. I had a dream about you last nite and I was just looking into your light blue beautiful eyes, like I did when you were coming to the end of your life, and I just kept looking into your eyes and wanted you to always remember me and I will always remember you - My Mother's Eyes. Well, in the dream last nite that is all I could remember - looking into your eyes like I did in March 2014. It will be 2 years coming up that you will be gone and it still isn't easy. Please send me some kind of sign.
I love you forever,
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend
Caroline xxxooo

you on my lap, lol

February 14, 2016

Mommy,
Hope you got my Valentine Days message and this pic of you and me.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby daughter and best friend,
Caroline xxx000

making pizzelles

Caroline Barone

February 14, 2016

Mommy and Daddy,
Happy Anniversary today the 14th of February. It would have been 78 years!! I will never forget your 65th Anniversary as that is the day I was diagnosed with cancer (Of all days!!) 13 years ago. You and Daddy were wondering why none of your kids didn't call and it was because they were all over my house when they heard the news I had Cancer. This day has never been the same for me again. I know I should be happy that I survived 13 years but I miss you guys and today had always made me happy to visit you. I love you both to the moon and back and will release a "heart" balloon to heaven as it is below 0 outside today and I won't be going to the cemetery today, sorry. Happy Valentines Day also to you.
Love Always and Forever,
Caroline, your baby daughter and best friend xxxooo

Caroline Barone

January 27, 2016

Hi Mommy,
just thinking about you today. I spoke to Aunt Annie last week and she loves "Rose Tree Place", where Bonnie and Bernadine moved her. She missed you and Aunt Julie so much and being there is much better for her as she is going downhill, sorry to say. John and I plan to visit her soon. I know that you know she is in a better place cos she easily makes friends, etc. Please keep an eye on her. I love and miss you lots.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

January 18, 2016

Mommy,
1 year and 10 months yesterday, the 17th, I was pretty out of it and sorry I didn't write to you then. Anthony had passed 13 years ago yesterday and I will never forget that day, with you laying passed out on the dining room floor, etc. I miss him like crazy also since we were only 3 years apart, Anthony being born after me. I can still see his beautiful, shy smile. The good thing is, he is there with you and daddy now, give him a hug from me. I kept thinking of a lot of memories yesterday. I want you to look after me right now, and you know why, your prayers have always helped me. It is very cold outside today, the coldest so far this late in January and winter. I love you miss you like crazy and remembering the times in past years that you would be staying at my house during super bowl week when daddy then Michael would go to Vegas. I cherish those times with you and the memories will stay locked in my heart forever. I miss holding your hand as you lay next to me in bed.
Love Always and Forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend forever xxx000

Caroline Barone

January 2, 2016

Mommy,
Just to correct myself when I wrote to you on New Years day. I said Anthony passed at age 48 when he had just turned 49 on the 14th of January then passed three days later. Also, I first found out about the mass on my lung Jan. 20th but was diagnosed Feb. 14th, yours and daddys 65th anniversary and Valentine's Day. That day will never be the same for me again. I remember you and daddy were wondering why none of your kids were coming over to see you while they were all at my house consoling me. I didn't tell you until after my lung surgery (which I also lied to you about) on March 19th. I had to tell you then that I had lung cancer and part of my lung was taken out and that I was going to get chemo and you would have seen me go bald. I'm so sorry to have had you and daddy go thru that and Michael took the both of you to visit me every weekend after my surgery in March until daddy himself got cancer and passed that July after my last chemo treatment. That was a heck of a year then losing Anthony only 6 months after daddy. You have been through so much in your life, you have to be a saint up there. I love you so much and miss you a lot. I'm trying to get out of this deep depression and push myself this year, starting with getting myself dressed everyday and keeping myself busy. I really should get back to Church as you were so religious and prayed the rosary for me and Novenas every single night. You amaze me every time I think of all you have done and been through in your life.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

January 1, 2016

Mommy and Daddy,
Its another new year, can't believe its 2016! It will be 13 years I'm battling lung cancer on Jan.21st. I'm still here while I lost so many people since 2003. I'm hoping for a healthier new year since 2015 was horrible for me. We will see what it holds. I miss you guys like crazy and thinking of you daddy as I'm watching the New Years Parade on tv. Michael was really good, I'm sure you saw him front and center stage this year, which he deserved. Anthony's birthday and the day he passed is coming up soon (Jan. 14th and Jan. 17th). Can't believe we lost him at age 48, only to be 49 three days later. Same with Auggie who was only 44 shy of his 45th birthday less than 2 weeks later. We lost a lot of young ones, Pat, Gina, even Joni was only in her 60's and Jay. I don't know how you got thru those deaths mom and I think it would have really devastated you losing Gina, who only went 10 months after we lost you. That would have been your first grandchild you lost and it still is. I'm sure you guys have her under your wings up there. She is really missed and it will be a year Jan. 4th.
Love always and forever,
your baby daughter and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

December 25, 2015

Merry Christmas Mommy and Daddy and to all the many angels I have up there in Heaven. I miss you like crazy, especially today, and we just finished dinner and I am feeling very down thinking of past Christmases with you. Going to lay down, Please look over Joanne and her family cos I know how hard it is for them without Gina this first Christmas, its hard for me also, we miss her like crazy but you guys have her with you up there. Give all a kiss from me. Love you always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend forever,
Caroline xxx000

Caroline Barone

December 18, 2015

Mommy,
one year and 9 months now, I kiss your picture every nite and when I wake up every morning. You and Daddy are on my mind a lot this time of year and so is Anthony. I miss him so much. I went to put grave blankets on your graves last week. I had your perfume scent on my hand again this Christmas as I was decorating and putting out all the Christmas ceramics you made me. I know you are with me, I felt you. Give all a kiss for me up there, especially Gina, our first Christmas without her and its very hard for Joanne and Cacie and all of us miss her lots.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl, Caroline
and best friend forever xxxooo

Caroline Barone

November 26, 2015

Happy Thanksgiving Mommy and Daddy and to all the loved ones I have lost, especially Gina. It is not the same without all the family and to me this is just another sunday dinner, so sad. Remembering all the Thanksgivings you made for us mom. I know you guys must be having a feast up there. Please look over us all down here (in hell). Love Always and Forever, your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo
P.S. I made your pumpkin pies this year again and they came out delicious. I have yet to make your crust, which is so flaky.

Caroline Barone

November 17, 2015

Mommy,
Today is a year and 8 months. Still been depressed a lot and the doctor thinks I should talk to someone, well I do, I talk to you. I miss you so much and don't think this pain will ever go away. Like I told the doctor, when you passed away, you took my heart with you. I love you so much. I will be going down the city tomorrow for the first time in a year and 7 months. Its really gonna be hard and I don't want to go, but its Aunt Annie's 94th b-day and Bonnie is having a luncheon for her with my cousins and Aunt Annie will be surprised. I didn't go last year and like I said didn't feel like going tomorrow. I haven't really been around a lot of people and I know that this is my family and you wouldn't want me to be this way and besides, Aunt Annie really misses her two sisters, you and Aunt Julie and I feel so bad for her. She is always crying for us to go down, so I have to put my fear of going down there tomorrow aside and just do this. We are meeting at Poppies which is also hard cos me and you have been there a lot. Please give me the strength to get thru tomorrow. I was thinking of giving Aunt Annie a gift from you, the rose colored sweather that I brought for you. I have it in my drawer and didn't want to part with it. I gave her the blue one that you had and she loved it so much. I will see if I can part with it. I do have so many other items of yours. I had a good check up at Fox Chase and the retina specialist said my eye is looking better. Had to go for eye glasses today and oh, I can go on and on, but I will stop here with I love you and miss you lots. Sorry I didn't make the cemetary for daddy's b-day on Friday, the 13th, but I did buy a balloon and let it fly off the beach in front of Resorts Casino, the first casino daddy went to. I will be going to the cemetary before the holidays which is right around the corner.
Love your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

October 18, 2015

Mommy,
Today is a year and 7 months since you left me. Still think about you a lot, cry a lot, etc. I felt a little closer to you when Johnny and me went on our trip to the Bahamas and I was in the clouds. It was a nice trip but very difficult for me. I was very out of breath with the heat and I love the beach and ocean, but just going in and out of the ocean tired me out. I felt bad because I was kind of cranky with Johnny but just felt so out of it. I just want to feel normal and walk like other people at a normal pace instead of holding on to Johnny to pull me along. Its very difficult and my vision didn't help also, but I am glad we did get away. Please watch over me and put in a good word for my vision to come back. I love you forever and always,
Love your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

caroline barone

September 23, 2015

Mommy, today is your birthday and you would have been 96! Michael, John, Joanne and me went to the cemetery today. Miss you like crazy and couldn't put up a post til today cos our computer is in the shop. I'm doing this on John's laptop. Hope you got the balloons I sent up to you in heaven. Wish I could have visited you at your house instead of a cemetery. I love you forever and always will.
Love Always, your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

September 16, 2015

Mommy,
tomorrow, the 17th, will be a year and a half that you are gone. Thinking of you so much and missing you as always. I know that you see I am going through a very difficult time right now with my eye and could lose my vision. Could you please put in a word to God, that I'm not as strong as He thinks I am anymore. My strength is crumbling and I couldn't take losing my vision and not being able to see a picture of your beautiful face anymore or see my daughter or husband. I have to get a needle in my eye every month now besides going to Fox Chase every 3 months. So far, I had the first needle and I'm still seeing blurry out of this left eye. Hopefully future needles might help me, I know you are looking down on me and I really need you now. I have been down all summer long and now here comes the fall. I love you forever and always.
Love your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

August 17, 2015

Mommy,
Today is 1 year and 5 months since you have been gone. I was going to try to make it to the cemetery but we are in another heat wave. I will get there as soon as I can. I want to thank you for being with me and holding my hand while I was getting my catscan. I knew it was you because in my mind I was talking to you and asking you to please hold my hand. A moment later, the tech, Dawn, came out into the room and told me she was gonna stay beside me and held my hand until the dye went into my vein. In the 12 years of getting my scans, every 3 months, no tech has EVER done this, so I knew you came through to her. Of course you know my scan went well. I have been thinking of you a lot, especially Aug.15th, the blessing of the ocean. I remember as a kid growing up how we would follow the procession on the beach that came from St. Michael's Church and the bishop would get in the lifeguard boat and they would row him out into the ocean where he blessed it. We would all jump in the ocean and try to catch the ring that the lifeguard would throw out of the boat. Those were such happy times. I have been thinking of Gina a lot also and I'm happy she is with her grandparents, aunt Joni and uncle Jay, whom she loved and Pat, but still sad that she is not here with us. Being a little selfish I guess. There are a lot of good people up there. Please give Gina and the others a hug and kiss from me. You will always have my heart. I love you
Love Always and Forever,
Caroline, your baby girl and best friend xxxooo

Caroline Barone

August 9, 2015

mommy,
Just sitting here crying cos I miss you so much. I miss talking to you. I miss Michael also but I just can't bring myself to going down the city because of all the memories and especially walking into your house, I'm sorry, but I just can't do it. I tell Michael he is always invited to our house, I guess I should just try and make a time to have him over for dinner or lunch. Sorry, I didn't get to the cemetery in July for daddy and you, it was so hot. Will really try in a couple of weeks to get there. I go to Fox Chase on Wed, the 12th. It seems like I haven't been there in a year because of going every 3 weeks from last Sept to March 2015. I pray all goes well and I know you will be there with me in spirit as you always said when you would call me early in the morning the day of my appt. Of course I know you could never have come to fox chase with me all those years, its too much for someone being there all day and you had been through enough with losing daddy, your sons, etc. I appreciated your prayers for me every nite and the Novena you always said for me. I'm sorry for going on and on, I just miss you and have been really down and spending most of the summer in this house, occasionally going down the shore. I know you are in a much better place and you are happy with all your loved ones up there with you. Please send me a sign that I should get out of this depression. I love you.
Love always,
your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

July 15, 2015

Mommy,
Just thinking about you a lot today. I had lunch with Aunt Annie, Bonnie, Joanne and Joyce. Bonnie took Aunt Annie down here because she has been so lost and lonely without her two sisters. Tears came to my eyes when I saw Aunt Annie because she looks a lot like you. Today is also 5 years since my brain surgery and I will never forget the look on your face when Michael took you over my house to see me and you were shocked to find out I had brain surgery, which I kept from you because I knew you would be devastated, so I told you I was going in for something else. When I showed you my head (and scar) you cried but then I did a little dance to show you I was fine! It seems like yesterday, I can't believe its 5 years already and that is why the doctor made my Mri's on my brain for 6 months now instead of 3. He said I would only have about a year to live after it went to my brain, but here I am. I'm sure all your prayers and novenas have me here yet. I proved the doctor wrong and that is my main purpose now is to prove them wrong. No one knows when our time is expired but the Man upstairs. In two more days (the 17th) it will be 1 year and 4 months that you are gone and I still miss you like crazy. Daddy will also be gone 12 years on July 23rd and I miss him also, especially when I'm buying the big, Jersey tomatoes that he loved and I make his famous Tomato Salad. I love you guys and try to think of all the good memories when I'm down. Please continue to look down on me and my family.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

June 17, 2015

Mom,
I made a mistake and said we saw Yul Brenner in the Sound of Music??!! Omg, lol, it was the King and I! I had the Sound of Music on my mind cos we want to go see that when it comes in February. I could hear you correcting me for that. I love you.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend,
Caroline xxxooo

Caroline Barone

June 16, 2015

Mommy,
Tomorrow will be 15 months that you are gone. I will be going to the cemetery, as I do every month, to bring you roses and something for daddy for fathers day. You have been on my mind a lot these past couple of weeks. Andrea took me to see the Lion King at the Academy of Music last week. Johnny and her got me the tickets for Christmas. All I could think about was you and how I took you to a lot of shows and dinner shows. Remember we saw Yul Brenner in the Sound of Music and in the middle of his performance, he stopped and warned the audience that if he saw one more flash go off, he was gonna end the show!! We looked at each other and couldn't believe it and said "He really thinks he is the King"! Lol. We had some really good times and when I'm down, I try thinking about the good memories with you. Like you said to me on your death bed - We did ALOT of things together. I will love you and daddy forever and you will always be in my heart.
Love always and forever,
your baby girl and best friend, Caroline xxxooo

P.S. Give daddy a kiss from me for Father's Day. Miss him also.

May 17, 2015

Mom,
1 year and 2 months today. They say it gets easier with time, but sometimes I just look at your picture and break down crying. You will always be in my heart and prayers and so will daddy and the others. I always hear your voice in my head and remember the good times we had and the advice you have given me all my life. Michael has been finding a lot of dimes and I know they are messages from you. Barbara went over your house yesterday to clean for Michael. I'm so sorry mom that I cannot get myself to go in that house anymore since you are gone and I feel so bad for Michael and know you were always worried how the house would be when you were gone. Johnny has to help me just take clothes in and out of the washer and dryer and clean and change my bed. I've gotten so much more out of breath since you have been gone. Give Gina a hug for me, I miss her so much and know Joanne is having a hard time also. You know that feeling. Keep a watch over her, as you know your son is not beside her. I love you more.
Love Always and Forever,
your baby girl and best friend xxx000

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