Mariana Ferreira (nee Clemente), 83, a longtime Yonkers resident, died on Wednesday May 5, 2021, at St. John’s Riverside Hospital.
She was born on October 3, 1937, to Jose Clemente and Matilde Franca Clemente in Portugal where she was raised and educated. On October 8, 1961, she married Amadeu Ferreira in Lisbon, Portugal. Mr. Ferreira died in 1998. Mariana was a Certified Nursing Assistant at the Regency Extended Care Center in Yonkers for 26 years until her retirement in 1999. She was a parishioner of St. Bartholomew’s Church. She enjoyed cooking, sewing, and shopping. She is survived by two daughters, Luisa Ferreira of Yonkers and Fatima Panik and her husband Dan of Yonkers. She is also survived by her two grandchildren, Brenda and Thomas Panik. All services are private. Donations in her memory may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105.