WEBSTER – Joyce S. (Carpenter) Bomba, 84, died Tuesday, January 31, 2017 in Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester. Her husband of 49 years, Walter P. “Pete” Bomba, died in 2008.
She leaves 2 daughters, Darlene A. Bomba, and Susanna “Sue” Zalewski and her husband Bill, all of Dudley; 2 grandchildren, Robyn Zalewski of Dudley and Jillian Zalewski of Durham, NC; a sister, Marilyn VanDyke of Webster; nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her brother Bernard Carpenter and by 3 sisters, Evelyn Bates, Eileen Fougere and Phyllis Spurgeon.
She was born in Webster and raised in Wilsonville, CT a daughter of Walter G. and Antoinette E. (Latour) Carpenter. She moved to Webster in 1959 when she married. She attended Tourtellotte Memorial High School in Thompson.
She had worked as a comber tender at Cluett-Peabody Mills in North Grosvenordale, CT, as a fancy lacer at Bentley Shoe Company, and as a department manager at Mars Department Store. She then was a processor at Wal-Mart in Oxford, retiring in 1997.
Mrs. Bomba was a member of Saint Andrew Bobola Church in Dudley. She loved to play poker and bingo and go to Foxwoods.
The funeral will be held Saturday, February 4, from Scanlon Funeral Service, 38 East Main Street, with a Mass at 10:30 AM in Saint Andrew Bobola Church, 54 West Main Street,Dudley. Burial will be in St. Joseph Garden of Peace. Visitation will be from, 9:00 to 10:00 AM Saturday in the funeral home. Donations in her name may be made to Daily Mass, c/o Diocese of Worcester, 49 Elm St., Worcester, MA 01609 or to Tri-Valley, Inc., 10 Mill St., Dudley, MA 01571.