Marie Elizabeth DiTullio, age 103, of Erie passed away Sunday, July 12, 2026, peacefully at home. She was born May 16, 1923 on 17th street in Erie\u2019s Little Italy at a time when it wasn\u2019t necessary to lock your doors. In recent times, she often talked about walking back home. She was the daughter of the late Frank and Margaret Sunseri. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Elmer J. DiTullio and her siblings: Augusta Frazzini, Vincy Cipolla, Lena Sunseri, Josephine Picardo, Sam Sunseri, Paul Sunseri, and Joseph Sunseri.<\/p>\n
Marie is survived by her son, James DiTullio and his wife Mary Alice as well as many nieces, nephews, four step grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n
In her early years, one of her first jobs was selling nuts at Erie\u2019s Central Market at Christmas time. She later worked for many years as a sales clerk in the dress departments at the Boston Store and Carlisle\u2019s. She was an active member of St. Paul RC Church and their Rosary Altar Society and made many friends while working the spaghetti dinners and numerous church functions. Some of her favorite things were cooking, especially for family get togethers over the holidays; watching Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, and Columbo. She also enjoyed watching golf on TV, though she never played the game.<\/p>\n
Marie never complained; she had a very kind heart and humble disposition. She will be greatly missed.<\/p>\n
Friends are invited to call at the Burton Quinn Scott Cremation and Funeral Services Inc., Downtown, 602 W.10th St. on Sunday July 19, 2026 from 1:00pm until 5:00pm with further visiting Monday at St. Paul RC Church, 1617 Walnut St. from 9:00am until 10:00am at which time a Funeral Mass will be celebrated. Burial will be in Trinity cemetery.<\/p>\n
Marie\u2019s family would like to thank her caretaker over many years and Hospice for their care and support.<\/p>\n
In lieu of flowers, please have masses offered at a Catholic church of your choice or through the Seraphic Mass Association at mymassrequest.org.<\/p>\n
Send condolences to www.BurtonQuinnScott.com<\/p>\n
To send flowers or plant a memorial tree<\/a> in memory, please visit our flower store<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marie Elizabeth DiTullio, age 103, of Erie passed away Sunday, July 12, 2026, peacefully at home. She was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-243573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}