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Mission of Jesus Christ”
“A Mother’s Loss”
Offers Comfort
GLEN MILLS,PA—
Robert L. Muratore
has been a
licensed Pennsylvania funeral director for 30 years,
offering comfort to families who have experienced
loss. But a year ago when Robert lost his brother to
a terrible accident he could not find a way to com-
fort his mother.
Joey Muratore
was 57 years old. A disabled Ma-
rine, living in an assisted living facility, Joey choked
on a slice of pizza, which ironically was his favorite
food. At 81, their mother had survived breast can-
cer and open heart surgery, but daily coping with
the loss of her “baby” was taking a toll on the faith
and strength she had left.
“My mother’s struggles and her pain increased as
each day passed. Being a funeral director you would
think I could offer her all of this up-to-date infor-
mation on coping with the loss of a loved one. I
am far from a poet but one night I started to write
some words down on a piece of paper. I gave her
this poem not as a gift, but as a thought of remem-
brance,” Robert stated. He presented “A Mother’s
Loss” to her on Mother’s Day. Although the poem
made her quite emotional it has actually become a
source of comfort to her on difficult days.
Robert shares his poem here, in the hopes that it
may find its way to comfort others experiencing the
loss of a child.
“A Mother’s Loss”
The loss of a son grieves deeply in the mother’s heart
She is the one who remembers the day she gave life
Now those wonderful times and joyful moments
are just a sad memory
She looks for answers, but only finds questions
She sees her days getting darker and darker
Now someone has told her he is now happy
All that pain he carried has gone away
He now sees the sun shining so bright
So why is she still losing this fight
He had told her you will find all your answers
Just have patience and believe in me
For I am the one he truly needed to see
–Robert L. Muratore
A 1977 graduate of the
Mercer County Mortu-
ary Program,
Robert served his internship at the
Robert L. D’Anjolell Memorial Home
where he
continued to work for 20 years. He is currently
employed at the
Donahue Funeral Home
. Rob-
ert is also a licensed crematory operator and is li-
censed for eye enucleation in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey. Robert can be contacted through
email at
.
Terzich and Wilson Funeral
Home celebrates 75 Years
(L to R) Brian Sells, Denny Wilson, Norby Wilson, Kathy (Wilson) Sells
and Jeff Wilson.
SONORA,CA—
Terzich and
Wilson Funeral Home
celebrat-
ed its 75th anniversary on April
21, 2015. Terzich and Wilson
is the oldest and largest contin-
ually family owned and operat-
ed funeral home, and the old-
est continuing family business,
in Tuolumne County. Its his-
tory began in 1919 when
Josie
Borzini
Terzich
, following the
death of her husband and in-
fant son, began funeral service
with
W.B. O’Beirne Funeral
Parlour
. She was one of the first
women embalmers in Califor-
nia and in 1922 became the first
woman in the state to be elect-
ed coroner. She held the post for
four terms until 1938. In 1935,
Terzich and
Frank Bigelow
,
who also worked for O’Beirne,
became partners and bought out
the retiring W.B. O’Beirne.
After that partnership dissolved
in 1938, Mrs. Terzich soon be-
gan construction of the
Ter-
zich Funeral Home
on the then
outskirts of Sonora opening for
business in April of 1940.
Norbert “Holly” Wilson
had
been working part time for Mrs.
Terzich since 1936. Following
military service in WWII, Holly
returned to work at the funeral
home and earned his embalm-
er’s license from the
San Fran-
cisco College of Mortuary Science
in 1947
.
He became a partner
in Terzich and Wilson in 1950.
Wilson and Terzich offered am-
bulance service from 1947 to
1978. They open a second Cha-
pel in Tuolumne City in 1966,
and that Chapel is currently cel-
ebrating its 49
th
year of service to
that community.
In 2012, Terzich & Wilson
opened
Mother Lode Cremato-
ry
in Jamestown, in association
with their long time partners, the
Botto
family in Oakdale, CA,
Angels Memorial Chapel
,
San
Andreas Memorial Chapel
, and
Oakdale-Riverbank Memorial
Chapels
, to locally serve those
families choosing cremation ser-
vices.
Holly’s children,
Kathy Wil-
son Sells
and
Jeff Wilson
, have
managed the business together
since 1987. Son,
Norbert “Nor-
by” Wilson
oversees other fu-
neral homes in the area.
Kathy’s son,
Brian Sells
,
started working at Terzich and
Wilson in 1992 and earned
his funeral directors license in
1999. In 2006, Brian and his
wife,
Yvette
, bought
Sierra
Memorials
. Jeff Wilson’s step-
...and much,
much more!
