Leonor Gallardo Calvi

CALVI - Leonor (nee Gallardo), 88, of Passaic passed away peacefully and surrounded by her family on April 25, 2017.
Born in Oruro, Bolivia, Mrs. Calvi attended the University of Chile where she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing as a World Health Organization scholar. She came to the United States in 1961 and settled in Passaic where she has resided since. Prior to retirement, Mrs. Calvi had been employed as a nurse at Passaic General Hospital for thirty-six years. She was a faithful parishioner of the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. She loved to travel and loved her family, especially her grandchildren and enjoyed going home to Bolivia to visit family there.
Mrs. Calvi was predeceased by three brothers, René, José and Guillermo Gallardo and two sisters, Lindaura and Marina Gallardo.
She is survived by her husband, J. Isaac Calvi of Passaic; her four children: Ruth Roxana Calvi of Passaic, Patricia Calvi and her husband, Ransford A. Lodge, of Clifton, Donna Calvi of Passaic and Peter Calvi and his wife, Yesenia, of Clifton; her sister, Haydee Gallardo Villafuerta, of La Paz, Bolivia; her brother, Hernán Gallardo, also of La Paz, Bolivia; five grandchildren: Joseph Alexander, Daniel Anthony, Maria Isabel, Peter Christopher and Anastasia Sarah; and many loving family members, both here in the United States and in Bolivia, South America.
Funeral services will be Monday 10:30 am from the Bizub-Quinlan Funeral Home, 1313 Van Houten Avenue, Clifton and 11:30 am at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, 89 Ridge Street, Newark. Entombment East Ridgelawn Cemetery Mausoleum, Clifton. Visiting Sunday from 2-6 pm.