Geraldine A. Monaco, well loved mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, and great grandmother passed away peacefully on January 24, 2014 at her home at Brandywine Senior Living at Haverford Estates in Haverford, PA. She was 94. She was born in New Jersey but most of her adult life was spent in suburban Philadelphia and Stone Harbor, NJ.

Born Geraldine Agnes Spillane, she was the oldest of six. She grew up in Glen Ridge, NJ, graduated from Glen Ridge High School and earned a B.S. from St. Elizabeth's College in Convent Station, NJ, the first in her family to do so. After graduation she worked for the Ciba Corporation and a biomedical research group at The Rockefeller Institute.

During WW II her work took her to the United States Naval Training Center, Bainbridge at Port Deposit, MD where she met and married her husband, Albert B. Monaco, a lawyer and lieutenant in the Navy stationed at the Training Center. They settled in the Philadelphia area in 1950 where they raised their family.

Her interests were varied. She studied the violin, played the piano, and painted. She loved to attend the rehearsal sessions of the Philadelphia Orchestra, was a troop leader in the Girl Scouts and a volunteer at WillsEye Hospital in Philadelphia.

She is survived by her daughter Marion Bowman; daughter and son-in-law Mary Lou and Roy Pizzarello; her daughter Margaret Monaco; her son and daughter-in-law Thomas and Julia Monaco; her brothers David and Noel Spillane; her sister Irene Wise; her grandchildren Hal, Jamie and Marya Bowman, Angela and Mary Monaco, James, Emily and Meaghan Anderson and Heather (Anderson) Donnelly, twelve great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews and their family members.

Mrs. Monaco was pre-deceased by her husband, their infant child Ann, her brother Thomas, sister Marion and sons-in-law Harry Bowman and Vance Anderson.

A Funeral Mass of Christian burial will be offered on Friday January 31, 11 AM at Our Mother of Good Counsel Church, 31 Pennswood Road, Bryn Mawr, PA.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the Augustinian Volunteers, P.O. Box 340, Villanova, PA. 19085