Salem…..

Violette M. Casale Connolly age 92, of Salem, died early Monday morning one day shy of her 93rd birthday in the Devereux House Nursing Home, Marblehead following a long illness. Violette was the wife of the late Jack Connolly of Salem. She worked for many years as a nurse aide in Brookline.
She was an avid reader who enjoyed mystery, fiction and historical novels with equal pleasure. Antiques were Violette's passion – a passion she inherited from her mother and shared with her sisters. There wasn't a crossword puzzle she couldn't master up until the day she died.

Violette loved her large family and friends and was at her best sharing holidays and great "spaghetti" dinners at the big folding tables used for these occasions.


Violette is survived by a son Sean Eric Simpson; a sister Victoria Nozko of West Hartford, CT, her sister's in law Jeannette Casale of Danvers and Elsie Casale of York, SC and many nieces and nephews and great nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by five brothers, Salem Police Officer Peter Casale, Carlo, Anthony, Rudy and Jim Casale and three sisters Sally Chaney, Anne O'Hanley and Delma Lanius.

Visiting hours will be Wednesday in the Murphy Funeral Home, 85 Federal St (cor of North ST) Salem. from 5:00P.M. to 8:00P.M. during which prayer services will be held at 7:30 P.M. Her Committal services will be on Thursday at 9:15 A.M. form the Murphy Funeral Home to be followed by interment at 10:00 A.M. in St. Mary's Cemetery, Salem. For online guest book or additional information, please call 978 744 0497 or visit www.MurphyFuneralHome.com.