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The following was prepared by John Marocchi and his daughters and delivered at the graveside services at Culpeper National Cemetery on Monday by a granddaughter.
Mary Jean Province Marocchi’s pioneer ancestors travelled from Pennsylvania to Kansas in covered wagons in the mid-1800’s. In the early 1900’s, her parents journeyed still further west to Colorado, where Gilbert Province opened a dry cleaning business.
Unfortunately, Mary’s father died while she and her three siblings were still very young. Amazingly, her mother Lida was able to keep her family together and the business going through the depression, proudly refusing proffered welfare. Valedictorian of her high school class, Mary first worked at J.C. Penney in Canon City, then entered nurse’s training at Pueblo, Colo.
She served in the Navy Nurse Corps during World War II, in hospitals at Mare Island, Calif, and in the Phillipines at Samar. She was discharged as a lieutenant, United States Naval Reserve, at Treasure Island, Calif, in April 1946.
A few days later, she married Lt. John Marocchi, whom she had met a year earlier on the golf course, where, John claims, “a shared inability to play well drew us together!” John has considered Mary his “Island Treasure” ever since.
For the following thirty years, a variety of Navy assignments took Mary and her family from Washington, D.C. to Rhode Island, France, Hawaii, Virginia, Germany and finally Maryland. She raised two
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