She was born on December 24, 1923 to Hugh and Ella Regan Scully in Yonkers where she was raised and educated graduating from Our Lady of the Rosary Grade School and Gorton High School. Mrs. Depew was a cashier at the A & P supermarket on Nepperhan Ave. in Yonkers for over forty years until the age of 81 when she retired. Previously, she was employed as a weaver at the Alexander Smith Carpet Shop for several years. Mrs. Depew was a longtime parishioner of St. Anthony’s Church. On June 24, 1945, she married her loving husband Albert J. Depew in Our Lady of the Rosary Church. Mr. Depew died on February 3, 2008. She is survived by two daughters, Bernadette Reich and her husband Richard of Pine Bush, N.Y. and Michele Depew and her husband Steven Porcaro of Yonkers. She is also survived by five grandchildren, Tom, Kate, Anna, Lizzie and Maggie and seven great grandchildren, Nate, Noah, Holden, Zoe, Jeremiah, Shawaan and Skylar. She was predeceased by four siblings, Eleanor, John, Myles and Peggy Scully. Her family said “Her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren were her life”. Visiting hours will be at Whalen & Ball Funeral Home on Monday 4-8pm. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in St. Anthony’s Church on Tuesday October 29th at 10am. Interment will follow at St. Joseph Cemetery. Donations in her memory may be made to either St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or Autism Speaks, 1 East 33rd Street, 4th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10016.
Whalen & Ball Funeral Home
168 Park Ave.
Yonkers, N.Y. 10703
(914)965-5488
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