Andree Pope Giacomozzi (90) died Friday at Montgomery Hospice in Maryland.
Born in France to Louise Duvaux Pope and Ernest E. Pope, a U.S. Amy soldier who served in France during WWI, she moved to the USA at 18 months and was processed through Ellis Island with her mother.
She grew up largely in Mount Sinai, Long Island, New York and maintained a life-long love of the beach and swimming. Other interests included reading, sewing, cooking, walking and investing.
Andree enrolled in Beauty School in New Jersey where she met Peter J. Giacomozzi, a Marie Corps veteran of WWII. They married in 1949. He became Chief of Police in his hometown of Jamesburg.
Andree worked as a Hair Dresser including as manager of the beauty salon in the then new Leisure World of Rossmoor. She completed a course of study leading to a GED and later attended Middlesex Community College where she was surprised and proud to earn As in English and Art. She later worked in Cranbury and became a licensed Real Estate Agent.
She had two children, whom, through careful investing, she was able to put through private high school and college.
Her survivors include her daughter, the Rev. Denise M. Giacomozzi (Jan Allen May), of Rockville, MD, five siblings and a granddaughter, Kristen May (Andrew Whittle), of Denver, CO.
Services are at Rockville United Church, 355 Linthicum St., Rockville, MD 20851 Sunday April 2 at 2 PM. A brief chapel service will be Monday April 3 at 12:15 at BG William C. Doyle Veterans Cemetery, 14 Chesterfield Arneystown Rd., Wrightstown, NJ 08562.
Memorials may be made to Montgomery Hospice, 1355 Piccard Dr., Rockville, MD 20850 or to Rockville United Church’s Syrian Refugee Project (please write “Syrian Refugee Project” on both the envelope and the memo-line of check).
