Marie A Rosaci

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Marie A. Rosaci, 69, a former vocational counselor who is remembered as a loving sister, died Monday in Eger Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, Egbertville, where she had resided for 24 years.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, she graduated from St. Francis Xavier Academy in her native borough.

Ms. Rosaci received her undergraduate degree and her master’s degree in psychology from St. John’s University, Brooklyn.

She worked as a vocational counselor for the city of New York.

Ms. Rosaci was creative and a talented artist. She loved going to the theater, museums, music and all the arts. She also enjoyed skiing in Vermont and traveling to Italy, Scotland and many other destinations.

In 1976, while in Mexico, Ms. Rosaci contracted an infection. She became gravely ill after returning home and was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome. She went into a vegetative state due to complications of treatment and never recovered. She was cared for at home by her parents until 1990, when they could no longer do so, and she then entered Eger.

Surviving is her sister, Sandra Del Priore.

The funeral will be Saturday from the Casey McCallum Rice Funeral Home, Great Kills, with a mass at 11 a.m. in St. Clare’s R.C. Church, also Great Kills. Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery, Pleasant Plains.