Marietta Mroz Grady

It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share with you the news of the passing of our beloved Mother Marietta Mroz Grady.

Born on May 30, 1943, in Scranton, PA, the daughter of the late Frank "Smokey" Mroz and Stephanie Kutish Mroz. She attended South Catholic High School and was a parishioner at Sacred Hearts Church in South Scranton.

She was married in 1962 to the late Robert Grady who passed away from melanoma just after his 32nd birthday in 1974 leaving her at age 30 with five children between the ages of 5 and 12.

She remarried in 1976 only to lose her second husband Robert Romanchik to a heart attack in 1984.

Her strength, love, and determination were unmatched. She raised all five children on her own with limited financial resources but with unlimited love, self-sacrifice, and devotion.

All five of us participated in sports throughout the year. And somehow she managed to get us all to our baseball, basketball, football, cheerleading, and bowling practices and games. And every weekend finding time to drive each one of us back and forth to be with friends, often with a 5 pm drop off and 10 pm pick up time in Pittston while in Junior High school.

She insisted on all of us doing well in school. And she taught each one of us to work hard in life, and to have self discipline and a good moral character. She made sure we grew up with the influence of the church, attending Sacred Heart Church in Duryea.

Mom worked at Party Time Manufacturing and Tobyhanna Army Depot before landing her favorite job at Steamtown National Park as an executive assistant.

Mom loved her dogs Holly, Crystal, and Laci dearly like she did her children, and sometimes deservedly more!

Her favorite place was "up the lake" at her parents cottage at Pocono Springs Estates in Gouldsboro where she spent many wonderful years with her parents, children, and extended family.

She loved her martinis, especially espresso and banana. Cannolis, lobster bisque, and key lime pie too.

She was a huge Neil Diamond fan but over the recent years her favorite song came to be Con Te Partiro by Andrea Bocelli. We will continue to play that for her and always let it remind us of our love for her.

She loved going to yard sales and antique shopping. She was also very active in her garden club.

In her younger years she loved to paint ceramics. We will always cherish the Christmas, Halloween, and Easter ceramics that she passed down to us, a few of the many remembrances we will have to keep her close to our hearts.

Following her retirement from Steamtown, she spent several years working part-time for a security company that staffed several major concert venues in the northeastern Pennsylvania and New York areas. She loved telling the story of how Gene Simmons from Kiss sat on her lap as she sat outside the door of his dressing room.

She spent many summers in Brigantine New Jersey with my father's sister Joan Jordano and her children Joanne, Julie, John, and Jocelyn and their spouses. It was always one of the main highlights of her summer.

She loved to sing and thought that she should have pursued a vocal career. She had a beautiful voice and heart.

Despite our difficult circumstances, we always felt taken care of and loved. We never felt like we were missing anything because she had the strength and love of two parents. Every year, new clothes for school and always a room full of presents underneath the tree for Christmas.

In addition to her parents and late husbands, she was preceded in death by a sister Lorraine who died at the age of 7. She is survived by her sister Joan and brother Jan, her five children: Christopher, Maureen, Mary Ellen, Michael, and Cheryl, and two stepchildren: Robert and Thomas Romanchik.

She's also survived by 11 grandchildren: Jacob and Brooke Grady, Nicholas and Taylor Hill, Robert, Nicole, and Morgan Krzywicki, Amber and Angela Grady, and Brett and Gregg Lee.

She has also been blessed with five great-grandchildren.

It's so hard to say goodbye and to let go of someone who has given you so much. She sacrificed everything she had for us.

We will always be grateful and never forget all that she has done for us, which this tribute only scratches the surface of.

The words love and gratitude will never be able to express our appreciation for who our Mom was and for all that she did for us.  We have been blessed beyond measure to have had her as a Mother.

We will keep her in our hearts and love her forever.

She is now with God, and her parents and my Father in heaven. Rest peacefully dear Mother. We love you and we will never ever forget you.

Arrangements by Kiesinger funeral Services Inc 255 McAlpine St. Duryea.

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