Christine Ann Ferrucci

FERRUCCI, CHRISTINE A. Christine Ann Ferrucci, age 57, of North Branford, formerly of Clinton, devoted wife, mother, sister and daughter, died Saturday, November 20, 2010, at Connecticut Hospice in Branford. Born in Waterbury, June 16, 1953, she was the daughter of Amato and Christine Mastrofrancesco Mongelluzzo. Christine attended Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School and Kennedy High School, both in Waterbury and was a graduate of Post Business College in Hamden. A loving wife and mother first, she worked for many years as a CNA at Fowler/Apple Rehab of Guilford and most recently at the Hearth at Tunxis Pond in Madison. While a resident of Clinton she volunteered as an EMT with the Volunteer Fire Department in that community. Besides her husband Aldo, Mrs. Ferrucci is survived by her parents, Amato and Christine Mongelluzzo of Waterbury, CT, a daughter Sarah Strange and her husband Chris of East Hartford, a son John Collier of Clinton, and a brother Rt. Rev. Msgr. James Mongelluzzo of Leominster, MA. She also leaves two step-daughters, Marie Laura Cortese and her husband Steve, and Brigite Riga and her husband Joe, as well as two step-granddaughters, Adeline Cortese and Isabella Riga, all of Branford. The funeral will be from the Keenan Funeral Home, 330 Notch Hill Road, (Rte 22 South at Rte 80), North Branford, Tuesday morning at 9:30 followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Augustine Church at 10:00. Burial will be in All Saints Cemetery, North Haven. Friends may call at the funeral home, Monday from 4 to 7 pm. Donations in Christine's memory may be made to the Masonic Charity Foundation of CT, 22 Masonic Avenue, P.O.Box 70, Wallingford, CT 06492-7001 OR Connecticut Hospice, 100 Double Beach Road, Branford, CT 06405.