Floyd County GaArchives Obituaries.....LaRocca, Jean Freeman 2006
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Rome News Tribune
Rome News Tribune, August 22, 2006
 
Family-Placed Death Notice
 
Mrs. Jean Freeman LaRocca, age 82 of Sandy Springs, GA died Sunday, August 20,
2006. Mrs. LaRocca was raised in Rome, GA, the seventh of nine daughters of
Clarence and Ola Evans Freeman. She was a resident of the Spalding Woods
neighborhood in Sandy Springs and was active at the Dorothy Benson Senior
Center. An accomplished seamstress and gourmet Italian and Southern cook, Mrs.
LaRocca had a collection of over 300 cookbooks. Loyalty was an important trait
of Mrs. LaRocca and once you became her friend, y ou had a friend for life. She
met her husband Dominick "Nick" LaRocca on a blind-date and he asked her to
marry him that night. They would have celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary
on August 23, 2006. She is also survived by her sons and daughter-in-law, John
and Paulette LaRocca of Providence Forge, VA and Greg LaRocca of Front Royal,
VA; her daughter, Alice LaRocca of San Francisco, CA; her grandchildren,
Christopher, Lauren, Teresa and Dominick LaRocca; her sisters, Bernice Hightower
and Susan Cormany of Rome, GA, Charlotte Haynes of Conyers, GA and Bobbie Parker
of Woodstock, GA; 9 nieces and 5 nephews. A memorial mass will be celebrated
Wednesday, August 23 at 3 p.m. at St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church with Fr.
Lawrence Schmuhl, celebrant. Memorial tributes to Mrs. LaRocca and her family
may be posted by visiting www.mem.com. In lieu of flowers the family requests
that you plant a living tree in her memory or make a contribution in her name to
the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. Arrangements by H.M. Patterson & Son,
Arlington Chapel, 173 Allen Road, N.E. Sandy Springs, GA 30328 (404) 851-9900.
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Also:
JEAN FREEMAN LaROCCA, 82, of Sandy Springs died Sunday. The body was cremated.
Memorial Mass, 3 p.m. Wednesday, St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church; H.M.
Patterson & Son, Arlington Chapel.
Published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on 8/22/2006.

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