Victoria Marie Parisi

Funeral Mass for Victoria Marie Parisi, 95, of Knoxville, will be held at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, 414 West Vine Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee with Father Jerry Tully, CSP serving as Celebrant under the direction of Rose Mortuary Mann Heritage Chapel. Burial will follow in Highland Memorial Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. Tuesday prior to the funeral mass at the church. Mrs. Parisi passed on January 31, 2014 after a brief illness. She was born in Astoria, New York on November 7, 1918 and spent her childhood and early adult life in Astoria. She was married in New York in February of 1935 to Orlando J. Parisi who preceded her in death in 1967. In her professional life she began dealing in antiquities at C.B. Charles Gallery in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and was a music teacher focusing on the accordion as the primary instrument. She went on to own and operate Parisi Antiques for more than fifty-one years in Rochester, Michigan and Knoxville, Tennessee until her retirement. She was a parishioner of Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in Knoxville. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Parisi was preceded in death by her parents, James V. and Margarita Cardinale Rotunno and her siblings John V. Rotunno, Cecila Zanello and Rose Poulos. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Gary J. and Nancy Parisi of Knoxville; daughter, Carol V. Parisi of Ferndale, Michigan; sister, Ann Noberini of Yreka, California; grandchildren, Suzanne Parisi Rose and husband Larry of Knoxville, David N. Parisi and wife Jennifer of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and Marguerite T. Parisi of Knoxville; great-grandchildren, Helen, Phillip, Benjamin and Joshua Rose all of Knoxville, Andrew and Owen Parisi of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and Gabriella T. Parisi and Parker and Ayden Parisi Harrell all of Knoxville; nephew, James V. Rotunno and wife Betty Ann of Bayside, New York; nieces, Michele Noulos and husband George of Bellrose Terrace, New York and Dorothy Ensile and husband Mark of Yreka, California; special great-niece, Nichole Noulos of New York. Online condolences may be extended at www.rosemortuary.com Arrangements by Rose Mortuary Mann Heritage Chapel.

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Victoria Marie Parisi

November 7, 1918 - January 31, 2014