SWAMPSCOTT — Mary A. (Dichirico) Brienzo, beloved wife of deceased Lynn firefighter Joseph Brienzo, passed on peacefully at home at the age of 95, in Swampscott, on Friday, Dec. 16, 2016.
She was a lifelong resident of Lynn and Swampscott and a proud graduate of St. Mary’s High School in Lynn. She worked at the General Electric Co. in Lynn in the war years of WWll. She received her teacher’s aide certificate from North Shore Community College in Beverly and worked at Stanley School in Swampscott as a teacher’s assistant.
Mary will be remembered fondly as a devoted communicant of St. John the Evangelist church in Swampscott, serving as a sacristan, lector and Eucharistic minister. Mary loved to spend summer days in her garden. She loved to dance. She and her husband, Joseph, were members of the Salem Lancers Square Dance Club. She loved to cook and prepared many enjoyable meals for family and friends who gathered round the dinner table. She was a member of Our Lady’s Sodality, a member of Swampscott Historical Society, and she attended many sewing classes, swimming classes, book readings, dancing and luncheons, and enjoyed many trips to Foxwoods with her friends. Mary was fond of traveling and visiting family in Italy along with her husband. They toured the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Middle East, Israel and Australia.
Her loving daughter Joan (Brienzo) Petrucci pre-deceased her. Mary was the daughter of Emma (Labriola) and Nicolas Dichirico of Swampscott. Mary was one of seven and the last surviving member of her immediate family. Loving aunt to many Dichirico, Pierro and Brienzo nieces and nephews across the U.S. and in Europe. She also leaves her son-in-law, several sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law. Her memory will be cherished by all who knew her.
Service information: A funeral Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church, Swampscott, will be celebrated on Friday, Dec. 30, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. Burial will be in Swampscott Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations made be made in Mary’s name to St. John the Evangelist Church, 178 Humphrey St., Swampscott or Care Dimensions Hospice, 75 Sylvan St., Danvers, MA 01923. Directions and guestbook at Solimine.com.
