Angela Anna Serio, church volunteer
Angela Anna Serio, a homemaker and church volunteer, died of heart disease Friday at her Timonium home. She was 89.
Born Angela Anna Schissler in Baltimore and raised on Milton Avenue, she was the daughter of Glenroy Schissler, a printer, and Teresa Kursch, a homemaker who also worked in an ice cream store.
She was a 1945 graduate of Catholic High School and attended the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing.
She married John A. Serio, a banker and chief financial officer of the old Garibaldi Federal Savings and Loan Association on Loch Raven Boulevard.
She briefly lived in Chicago and then returned to Baltimore in the early 1950s.
She worked as a cashier at the Green Spring Dairy on 41st Street and later was an administrative assistant at the Kaifer Insurance Agency.
She volunteer for church-sponsored food drives. She also sorted box tops for area school drives.
She attended the Hippodrome Theatre, and earlier had enjoyed day trips to New York. She also enjoyed solving crossword puzzles and word searches.
Her husband of more than 50 years died in 2003.
A Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 11 a.m. today at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, 101 Church Lane in Cockeysville, where she was a member.
Survivors include a son, Sam V. Serio of Accomac, Va.; two daughters, Roseanne Serio-Oestreicher of Jarrettsville and Kathryn Serio of Timonium; a brother, Glenroy Schissler Jr. of Glen Rock, Pa.; and a grandson. A son, Joseph Serio, died in 2012.