On May 14, RITA BONELLO GHIO née CALLEJA GERA, loving wife of the late Louis and youngest sister of the late Antoinette, Joyce, Francis and John, aged 87, passed away peacefully at home in Sliema comforted by the rites of Holy Mother Church.

She will always be remembered with much love and gratitude by her only daughter Helena and by her beloved grandsons Philip, Christopher and Nicholas. Joining them in their mourning are her sisters-in-law Lina Calleja Gera in Canada, Louisette, Rosemary, Doris, Marlene and Monica Bonello Ghio, nephews and nieces in Malta, Canada and Germany, cousins, other relatives, precious friends and neighbours.

A Mass praesente cadavere will be said at Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish church, Balluta on Saturday, May 22, her feast day, at 8.30am, followed by interment at the Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery.

Flowers are appreciated but, alternatively, donations may be sent to Aid to the Church in Need (Malta).

Requiescat in pace.