Amelia Serrano

Amelia Serrano of Park Circle, Mt. Marion died Thursday, March 3, 2005 at TenBroeck Commons Nursing Home. She was 96. She was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico on June 20, 1908, a daughter of the late Anselmo and Anna Maria Serrano. At age 29 she immigrated to this country and settled in New York City. A seamstress and sewing teacher, Amelia was an interpreter and medical surgical technician at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx for many years. She was an accomplished oil painting artist and poet. Her husband Carlos Chevremont died December 31, 1989; her former husband Fortunato De Oliveira died in March 4, 1994. Two sisters Carmen Yoio and Mina Carozza and three brothers Jose, Miguel and Gilberto Serrano, and one grandson Austin Luria all died previously. Loving mother of Anna Sylvia Walshe and her husband Roderic and Annette Oliveira and her husband Haig Agigian; sister of Elisa Estela and the late Carmen Yoio, Mina Carozza, Jose, Miguel and Gilberto Serrano; grandmother of Elizabeth, William, Edmund and Peter Walshe and Alison Luria; great grandmother of Wesley and Sean Marshall, Alysia, Derek, Alexandria, Broderic, Greenock and Bjerke Walshe, Travis and Hannah Luria. Many nieces and nephews also survive. Reposing at the Simpson - Gaus Funeral Home, 411 Albany Ave. on Monday 2-4 and 6-9 PM. There will be a candlelight service conducted on Monday evening at 8:00 PM. The funeral will be Tuesday at 9:15 AM from the funeral home. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Catherine Laboure Church at 10:00 AM followed by committal services at Wiltwyck Cemetery. Interment will be in Mount Marion Cemetery in the spring.