STATEN ISLAND -- Longtime Staten Islander Nereida Casanovas, 85, of Great Kills, a retired clerk and seamstress, died Monday at home.
Born Nereida Lopez in Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Mrs. Casanovas moved to Brooklyn in 1950, and settled in Great Kills in 1979.
She worked 10 years as a clerk at Banker’s Trust in Manhattan. She also worked as a seamstress for most of her life.
Mrs. Casanovas enjoyed sewing and cooking for her family.
She was a parishioner of St. Clare’s R.C. Church, Great Kills, where she also served as a Eucharistic minister.
Her husband of 53 years, John, died in 2007.
Surviving are her sons, Robert and John; her daughter, Rita Casanovas Cardenas; her brothers, Aristedes, Juan and Arnaldo Lopez; her sisters, Ofelia and Carmencita Lopez and seven grandchildren.
The funeral will be Friday from Casey-McCallum Rice South Shore Funeral Home, Great Kills, with a mass at 9:45 a.m. in St. Clare’s Church. Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery, Pleasant Plains.
