Anna Balsamo

Visiting hours will be held at the LaMonica Memorial Home, 145 East Mt. Pleasant Ave., Livingston, on Friday, September 2 from 3-7 pm. A Mass of Christian Burial will be Saturday, September 3 at 10 am at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, 219 Bloomfield Ave., Caldwell, NJ. Burial will follow at Hollywood Memorial Park and Cemetery, Union, NJ.

Anna had the reputation for sewing beautiful wedding gowns as a master seamstress and then doing alterations almost to the day of her passing.

She was the loving wife of the late Frank J. Balsamo and is survived by her sons, Robert of Long Valley, NJ, and Peter of Lexington, SC, her daughter Maureen Mould of Salem, OR and sister, Rose Vizzone of Verona, NJ. She was the grandmother of David and Marc Kochan, Cara Turnquist, and Sofia Balsamo and five great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her daughter Kathy Kochan and brother Dominick Risoli.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 830 Broad Street, Suite 2, Shrewsbury, NJ 07702 or the Balsamo Scholarship Fund for International Study, c/o Montclair State University Foundation, 1 Normal Ave., Montclair NJ 07043