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FROM KEITH GROLLER
Friday figures to be a most bittersweet day for Tony Cocca, the former Whitehall football and softball coach and current Northampton Community College softball coach. Tony, of course, is also a sideline reporter for RCN4.
Tony lost his mother, Katie, on Monday at the age of 86.
She will be buried on Friday, the same day that Tony will be inducted into the National Football Foundation Lehigh Valley Chapter Hall of Fame.
Here's the information on Mrs. Cocca's services, courtesy of the Gilbert Funeral Home:
Katie Cocca 86 years of Fullerton, passed away peacefully on Monday April 28, 2014
in her home. The wife of John A. Cocca for 65 years, she was born in Gilberton, PA
to the late Lesco and Mary (Bonchak) Guzie.
She was a member of St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church, Whitehall.
The love of her life was raising her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
She enjoyed crocheting beautiful keepsakes for her family and friends. Katie was a dedicated Phillies fan and loved to play at the Casinos.
Survivors: beside her husband;
daughter Roseanna Hartman and her husband Robert of Whitehall;
sons Anthony “Tony” Cocca and his wife Monica (Roman) of Whitehall
and George Cocca of San Diego, CA; 8 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren, with an expected blessing on the way; sister Elizabeth Miller of Allentown; predeceased by 7 siblings;
Services: Her Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 am on Friday
May 2, 2014 in St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church, 618 Fullerton Ave, Whitehall,
located 1 block south of the Fullerton Ave. exit of Route 22. Her viewing will be
6:00 to 8:00 pm Thursday in the Gilbert Funeral Home, 444 Pershing Blvd Whitehall PA 18052, located directly across of the Church. There will be no viewing on Friday morning.
Interment will follow in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cemetery, Whitehall.
Contributions: are suggested to the Miller-Keystone Blood Center 1465 Valley Center Parkway Bethlehem, PA 18017
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