First Posted: 2/29/2012
Barbara Lenore (King) Romaldini, 85, of Sebastipol, Pittston, died January 28, 2012 at her home surrounded by her loving family.
Born in Pittston on April 29, 1926 she was the daughter of the late John and Catherine Donnelly King. She was a 1944 graduate of Jenkins High School.
She was a devoted Catholic and member of St. Rocco’s Church in Pittston. She belonged to the Italian American Society of Luzerne Co. and the Big Bang Society.
She had been employed at the Pittston Hospital, Beacon & Loan, Pittston Area High School and spent many hours volunteering with her husband in the Jenkins Twp. Lions Club.
She was preceded in death by her husband Carlo Sante Romaldini in 2002, a son Sante John, and brothers Joseph, Gerald and Jack King and a sister Doris Manganiello.
Surviving are her sons Carlo P. and his wife Pamela, Newton; Eugene and his wife Jasmiry of Scranton; daughters Barbara Parry and her husband Richard of Westminster; Maureen Romano and her husband Robert of Wind Gap, and daughter –in- law, Ann Caputo and her husband Michael.
Also surviving are 10 grandchildren : Cecilia Bain, Theresa Romaldini, Sante Romaldini, Caitlyn, Jennifer and Matthew Parry and Sante Carlo Romaldini, Camilia, Gianni and Lola Lenore Romaldini; a great -granddaughter Amber Grace Bain and many other family members, nieces, nephews and friends.
Memorial donations may be made to Hospice Community Care, 385 Wyoming Ave., Kingston, Pa. 18704 or to EWTN, Catholic television station.