- Date Of Death: March 7, 2006
- State: Connecticut
Sophie E. Cuomo Franco, 87, of Lecanto, FL., formerly of Ferry St., New Haven, died March 7, 2006 in Florida. She was the widow of retired N.H. Public Works Superintendent Peter A. Franco. Mrs. Franco, daughter of the late Raphael & Anna Gamaloni Cuomo, was born in Naples, Italy March 7, 1919. She came to this country as a child and resided in New Haven until 1994, when she moved to Florida. She worked as a seamstress until her retirement in 1982. She loved sewing, crocheting, playing bingo and watching her grandsons play baseball. She is survived by a son, Louis M. (Kathleen) Franco of East Haven; a daughter, Anne B. (Robert) Willis of Lecanto, FL. with whom she resided; 4 brothers, Anthony Cuomo of Hamden, Salvatore Cuomo of Upstate New York, Augustine Cuomo of New Haven & Ralph Cuomo Jr. of Wallingford; 5 sisters, Philomena DeMaio of Pembroke Pines, FL., Dorothy DeMauro, Mary Tondalo & Yolanda Gagliardi, all of North Haven and Agnes Lynch of Wallingford; and 2 grandsons, Robert P & Ryan J. Willis of Lecanto, FL.
