DELLA

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Independent Journal
Monday, April 22, 1974

CATERINA DELLA

Mass of the Christian Burial was today in San Francisco for Caterina Della, mother of George Della of Fairfax. Burial followed at the Italian Cemetery in South San Francisco.

Mrs. Della died Wednesday in a San Jose hospital after a short illness. She was 72.

Mrs. Della was born and reared in Italy near Milano. She moved to San Francisco in 1920 with an aunt and uncle.

She married Pietro Della of San Francisco two years later and the couple reared two sons. Della died in 1941.

After her husband’s death, Mrs. Della worked for several years as a seamstress for a San Francisco manufacturing firm.

She was a member of the Sons of Italy No. 2024 of San Francisco.

Mrs. Della is survived by two sons, George Della of Fairfax and Raymond Della of San Jose, and four grandchildren.