FALL RIVER - Mary (Mello) Pacheco Moniz, age 89, of 494 Rodman St., Fall River, MA, died Wednesday at Charlton Memorial Hospital. She was the wife of the late Anthony Pacheco Jr. and the late Antone Moniz. Mother of Mary Ann Roy-Amaral, grandmother of Rachel Ann Desmarais and Geoff Joseph Roy, great-grandmother of Jeffrey A. Barbosa, Evan Normand Desmarais, and Madison Lynn Sousa. She was the step-mother of Antone Moniz, Jr. of Tiverton, RI, Dorothy Ruest of Somerset, Mary Joyce Saucier of Swansea, and Connie Silbaugh of Palmer, OH. She was also the sister Eliza Britton of Plainfield, CT, Fourteen Step-Grandchildren, Many Great Grandchildren, and Several nieces and nephews. She was also sister of the late John Cabral De Mello.
Born in Fall River, the daughter of the late John Cabral Mello and the late Eliza (Soares Motta) Mello. She was a life long resident of Fall River. Before retiring, she was a Folder at Louis Hand Curtain Shop and a Hand Sewer at Anderson Little. She was a member of the Barresi Senior Club on Pleasant St. She was a member of the former St. William Church, now Holy Trinity Church.
Her funeral will take place from the Manuel Rogers & Sons Funeral Home, 1521 No. Main St., Fall River on Saturday at 8:15 AM followed by a Mass of Christian Burial in Holy Trinity Church, Stafford Rd., Fall River, MA at 9:30 AM. Internment in Notre Dame Cemetery. Calling hours Friday 5-8 P.M.