Marie Antoinette Aceti

Marie Antoinette (Buccinno) Aceti, 90, of Charlotte, North Carolina, entered her eternal rest on Thursday, July 25, 2024, after a brief illness. One of three children, Marie was born on January 15, 1934, to Vincenzo and Asunta Buccinno in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Seeking employment in the auto industry during World War II, her family relocated to Michigan. She attended the local schools there and was a graduate of Hazel Park High School in the City of Hazel Park. On November 27, 1954, she married Anthony “Tony” Aceti, her beloved husband of 57 years until his death in 2012.

In 1977, seeking a change, Tony and Marie moved their family to Charlotte. Marie dearly loved her family. She had five children, and leaves behind eleven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren, whom she saw regularly. All who knew Marie will forever recall and celebrate her smile, sense of humor, warmth, and hospitality.
Marie was very active and independent even in her last years. She had a lifelong love of the arts and produced beautiful works as an amateur painter. Her lessons in Italian cuisine and her extensive library of recipes are treasured by her children and will continue to be handed down to each new generation. Over many decades, Marie also provided bookkeeping services to multiple employers including Woonsocket Spinning, Godfather’s Pizza, and St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Charlotte. 

Marie was a faithful Catholic her entire life and was especially devoted in worship and service at Saint Gabriel Catholic Church, her parish of nearly fifty years. In lay ministry, among other things, she served as catechist, was one of the first female ushers in Charlotte, and distributed Holy Communion at Sunday mass and to the homebound. As the “Woman with pyx” depicted in the stunning sixty-square-foot “Body of Christ/Communion of Saints” mural at St. Gabriel beside many modern-day saints, Marie’s ever-youthful, smiling person has been preserved in perpetuity, Sacred Art at St. Gabriel - Charlotte.
Marie was preceded in death by her parents, brother, Ralph Buccinno, of Michigan, husband, and infant son, Anthony Aceti, Jr. She is survived by her sister, Anita Latulippe, of Michigan; children: Michelle McNulty (Brian), Michael Aceti (Panee), Daniel Aceti (Ana), and Carla Norman (Greg); grandchildren: Mara Hiller, Rev. Paul McNulty, and Kelsey Kuhlman; Wave and Aiya Aceti; John, Isabella, and Daniela Aceti; Natalie, Reilly, and Ansley Norman; her ten great-grandchildren, and many extended family.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated by Marie’s oldest grandson, Father Paul McNulty, at St. Gabriel Catholic Church on Thursday, August 1, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. EST. Visitation and prayer service will be held Wednesday, July 31, 2024, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., also at St. Gabriel Catholic Church.  Marie’s final resting place will be beside her late husband in the columbarium on the grounds of their beloved parish. 

In lieu of flowers, Marie’s family requests that memorials be made in her honor to the Heineman-Robicsek Foundation or St. Gabriel Catholic Church.     Carolina Funeral Service & Cremation Center is entrusted with the arrangements.

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