Submitted by

Ken Gates

Mary Falsone Dicorte
July 12, 1913 - March 7, 2007

     Mary Falsone Dicorte, 93, of Waco, passed away Wednesday, March 7, 2007.

     Services were held Monday, March 12 at St. Louis Catholic Church with the Msgr. Mark Deering officiating. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery in Waco.

     Father David Liebham officiated at the rosary Sunday evening.

     Mrs. Dicorte was born July 12, 1913, in Highbank to Joe and Frances LaBarbera Falsone. She married Billy Dicorte on April 12, 1931, and moved to Waco. As a young woman, she worked in the family business, Dicorte Brothers Grocery, and later was his partner in the Billy Dicorte Package Stores. She was a longtime member of St. Mary's Church of the Assumption and later a founding member of St. Louis Catholic Church.

     She was preceded in death by her husband; two sisters, Frances Reistino and Rose Denena; and three brothers, Jim, Robert and Joe Falsone; and her son-in-law, Paul Hope, Sr.

    She is survived by her daughter, Mary Frances Hope; son, Frank William Dicorte and wife, Sue; son Joseph Michael Dicorte and wife, Ann; daughter, Rose Ann McAnally and husband, John; sisters, Benetta Wenning and husband, Walt, Angeline Cagelosi and Camella Scamardo and husband, Pete; and her brother, Tony Falsone and wife, Polly; 12 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and eight great-great-grandchildren.