1925 – 2024
MILFORD – Having lived a long and loving life, Marie D. Bello passed into eternal life peacefully in her sleep at her home in Milford in the early morning hours of Saturday, August 24, 2024. She was 99.
Born April 24, 1925, in the Village of Herkimer, Marie Dorothy Chirico, daughter of Menotti and Felicia (Torcia) Chirico, was a graduate of Herkimer High School and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of St. Rose.
While working as a research biologist at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown she met Edward Thomas Bello, M.D. who was there as an intern. Upon his return from military service in Korea, they were married August 4, 1951, at St. Anthony’s Church in Herkimer.
Marie and Dr. Bello happily raised seven children: Anne Therese Bello, Dr. Jacqueline Anne Bello (husband Dr. Peter Carmel), Marietta Anne (Bello) Taylor (husband Charles Taylor), Edward Thomas Bello Jr., Susan Anne Bello Pugliese (husband Sergio Pugliese), Peter Joseph Bello, Bianca Anne Bello (Dave West, a good friend to the Bello family), their 7 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. Marie and Dr. Bello regularly thanked God for their lives and the children with whom they were blessed.
Marie was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, her sister, Charlotte M. Szarejko and brother, Francis Chirico.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 9 a.m. Thursday, August 29, 2024, at the Church of Saints Anthony and Joseph, 229 South Main Street, Herkimer, with Reverend Thomas Babiuch, pastor presiding, assisted by The Most Reverend Manuel L. Cruz, D.D., Titular Bishop of Gaguari and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey.
The Service of Committal and Burial will follow in Springfield Cemetery in Springfield Center.
Arrangements are under the care and guidance of the Connell, Dow & Deysenroth Funeral Home in Cooperstown.
If you would like to send condolences to the family, send an email to Connell, Dow & Deysenroth. We will forward your comments to the family. If you would like to send flowers in memory of the deceased, contact Mohican Flowers at (607) 547-8822, or A Rose is a Rose at (607) 264-3100.
