- Date Of Birth: April 18, 1925
- Date Of Death: August 16, 2015
- State: Minnesota
Elena Mafalda Geary, age 90, longtime resident of Virginia died Sunday, August 16, 2015, in the Virginia Convalescent Care Center. She was born April 18, 1925, in Hibbing the daughter of James and Palmerina (Tomaino) Grillo. She was the 8th of 11 children, and very proud of her Italian heritage. She graduated from Hibbing High School in 1943 and went to Washington DC to work in the defense plants during WWII. When the war ended she went to work in Detroit, MI. She returned to Hibbing and married Wilbur Geary in 1946. Her love of music made it fitting that she married a classical musician. They resided in Hibbing, Eveleth and then moved to Virginia, MN in 1951, where her husband took the band-leader’s job for 33 years.
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