Maria F. Pennucci

1928 - 2023

Maria F. Pennucci, 94

Lynn - Mrs. Maria F. (Aurilia) Pennucci, age 94 of Lynn, died peacefully, after a lengthy illness, on Monday February 13, 2023. She was the wife of the late Natale "Tony" Pennucci, with whom she shared 53 years of marriage.

She was born and raised in Castelfranci, Avellino, Italy and In 1955, she came to the United States and settled in Arlington, she has lived in Lynn for over 60 years.

Many years ago, Maria had worked as a seamstress for 19 years for David H. Smith. In 1975 Maria began working as a cafeteria worker for the Lynn School System at Lynn Vocational Technical Institute, where she worked for over 30 years, until her retirement on January 3, 2011 at the age of 83. Maria would always go out of her way to ensure that those students at Tech that were not able to eat properly at home, were taken care of at the school. She was a dedicated, caring person who was a former volunteer at the St. Mary's Food Pantry. She enjoyed, cooking, knitting, and gardening in her yard and sharing what she grew with family, friends, and neighbors. She was written up in the Food Service Director Magazine, an institutional culinary magazine published nationally, in an article that was written about her soups, and also reported on by the Lynn Item on January 27, 1999.

She was the beloved mother of Joseph Pennucci and his wife Beth of Lynn, Marisa L. Sclafani and her husband Simone of Peabody, and the late Corporal Peter James Pennucci Killed In Action, Vietnam, and the loving grandmother of Peter Simone Sclafani, and Mary Patrice Pennucci.

Service Information: Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend a Funeral Mass on Friday, February 17, 2023, at 11:00AM in St. John the Baptist Church 17 Chestnut St., Peabody. Burial will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to the Cotting School, 453 Concord Ave., Lexington, MA 02421. Directions and guestbook at www.solimine.com