Marion (Kirylo) Vitti of Watertown, Mass., passed away peacefully on March 5, 2024, at Meadow Green Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Waltham, Mass., at 92 years.

Born in Cambridge on Nov. 9, 1931, a daughter of Gregory and Blanche (Lewickas), the youngest of nine children. After marrying Ralph Vitti of Newton in 1953, she had four children and settled in West Newton. Upon Ralph’s death in 1974, she worked as an office administrator and started a business out of her kitchen, Carefully Made Pies, in which she sold pecan and apple pies and carrot cakes to local stores and restaurants. In retirement, she loved being on her own, going to Mass, spending summers in Tunbridge, Vt., traveling overseas to holy places such as Medjugorje and Garabandal, doing puzzles, reading, and spending time with her eight grandchildren. She moved to Watertown in 2011.

She leaves four children and eight beloved grandchildren: Charles Vitti and his wife Kim of Londonderry, N.H., and daughters Aja Vitti (Manchester, N.H.) and Melissa Vitti (Los Angeles); Ralph Vitti Jr. and his wife Wanda of Winchester, Mass., and sons Ralph Vitti III (Denver), Joseph Vitti (Boston), and Francis Vitti (Watertown); Anne (Vitti) Banks and her husband Chris Banks of Newton, Mass., and son Michael Banks (Boston); John Vitti and his wife Marie Gendron of Watertown, Mass., and daughters Charlotte Vitti (Watertown) and Isabella Vitti (Amherst).

Family and friends are invited to attend visiting hours at Andrew J. Magni & Son
Funeral Home, 365 Watertown St.,Newton, Mass., on Thursday, March 7, from 4-8 p.m. There will be a Funeral Mass at St. Patrick’s Church, 212 Main St., Watertown, Mass., on Friday, March 8, at 10 a.m. Interment will follow at Newton Cemetery & Arboretum.