Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Persin, Grace Magista  August 1, 2012
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  Published in Lebanon Daily News from August 3 to August 4, 2012
  PALMYRA Grace Magista Persin, 91, formerly of Warner Robins, Ga., entered into 
  eternal rest on August 1, 2012. Grace was born February 16, 1921, in 
  Conversano, Italy. She was the daughter of the late Biagio and Fontina 
  (Lonardelli) Magista. Grace's family immigrated to the United States when she 
  was three years old. She graduated from McKinley High School in Washington, 
  D.C., in 1938. Grace was the widow of Lt. Col. Charles Persin, Jr., her beloved 
  husband of forty-three years, who passed away in 1986. Grace and Chuck enjoyed 
  traveling during his career in the Air Force; they lived in Washington, D.C., 
  California, Germany, Alaska and Georgia. Grace was the mother of Kathleen and 
  mother-in-law, of James Bertrand of Palmyra; grandmother of Jennifer Bertrand 
  of Hershey, Jeffrey Bertrandof Seattle, Wash., and Jessica Giansanti of 
  Palmyra; and great-grandmother of Olivia and Mia Giansanti of Palmyra. She is 
  also survived by her sister, Mary Torelli of Ashburn, Va. Grace was a member of 
  the Church of the Holy Spirit in Palmyra, the Palmyra Garden Club and the Fort 
  Indiantown Gap Officers' Wives' Club. For more than twenty years, Grace was a 
  dedicated volunteer with the blood bank at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey 
  Medical Center. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at the Church of the 
  Holy Spirit, 245 W. Pine St., Palmyra at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Augusst 10. Fr. 
  James F. Podlesny, OSB will officiate. Visitation with Grace's family will be 
  held at 9:30 a.m. until time of the service in the church's Narthex. Full 
  service details will be published upon completion. Grace will be inurned with 
  her husband at Arlington National Cemetery. To honor Grace's life, her 
  commitment to the blood bank, and her appreciation of the life sustaining blood 
  products she received for many years, please consider donating blood to the 
  Central Pennsylvania Blood Bank. To recognize Grace's support during her 
  granddaughter Jessica's treatment for breast cancer, donations can be made to 
  the PA Breast Cancer Coalition.   Arrangements are being handled by Rothermel 
  Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Inc., 25 W. Pine St., Palmyra, PA 17078.  
   
  Published in Lebanon Daily News from August 3 to August 4, 2012 
   
  
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