Josephine Bonomo Cenedella

    CENEDELLA, Josephine Bonomo, 94, PITTSBURGH, PA, at Presque Isle, September 29, 2010. A service of remembrance and interment will be held in Pittsburgh in the near future at a time to be announced. She will be buried at Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Penn Hills, PA.

    Josephine Bonomo Cenedella, 94, passed away peacefully from complications after hip surgery, surrounded by her loving family at the Presque Isle Nursing Home, on September 29, 2010. She has gone to be with her Lord and Savior whom she loved dearly.
    She was born September 4, 1916, in Pittsburgh, PA, one of the ten children of Samuel and Josephine (Solla) Bonomo, who were born in Sicily, Italy, came to the USA in the early 1900’s and operated a small Italian grocery store. After attending Westinghouse High School in Pittsburgh, Josephine married Joseph Louis Cenedella in 1938, and had three children: Dr. Richard Cenedella of Isle of Palms, SC, Raymond Cenedella of Plantation, FL, and Dr. Arlene Cedenella of Easton, ME, and Loxahatchee, FL. In addtion to raising her family, Mrs. Cenedella worked in secretarial capacities, as a Gray Lady hospital volunteer and LOVED to play Bridge. She was a member of the Mt. Lebanon Presbyterian Church in Mt. Lebanon, PA, and the Plantation Community Church in Plantation, FL. She was well known for her inspiring (and not too long) pre-meal graces.
    She is predeceased by her parents; her loving husband of almost 50 years; two sisters, Clara Bonomo and Mary Raccopi of Pittsburgh; and four brothers, Anthony, Conrad and Frederick, of Pittsburgh, and Samuel Bonomo of Sacramento, CA.
    She is survived by three brothers, James of Columbus, Ohio, Carl of Tuscan, AZ, and Alaska, and Albert Bonomo, of Pittsburgh; as well as three children, three grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren: son, Richard, his wife, Andrea and their three children; grandson David, his wife,
Anne; great-grandsons, Joseph, Nick and Louis Cenedella, of Evergreen, CO; granddaughter, Laura, her husband Jeff, great-grandchildren, Tyler, Kendall and Madison Schonekase of Overland Park, KS, and granddaughter, Susan, her husband, Jim, great-granddaughters, Ashley, Sabrina and Michelle Sherrow of Derby, KS; son Raymond, daughter Arlene and her husband Warren Sims, their daughters Laura Sims Gallitano, Sarah Sims Erhmann, Deb Sims-Olson, and grandchildren, Samuel, Ella and Ruby.
    She always remembered her dearest friends, Sophia Hildabrand & Gwen Bonomo.
    A service of remembrance and interment will be held in Pittsburgh in the near future at a time to be announced. She will be buried with her beloved husband, Joseph at Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Penn Hills, PA. In lieu of flowers, gifts may be sent to the charity of your choice or Visiting Nurses and Hospice of Aroostook County.