Date of Service:
November 19, 2022
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Elsa Wilson Sista, age 92, lived a full-life passing away peacefully after her three daughters gathered at her bedside in Vero Beach, Florida.
She was a Jersey Girl born in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She met the-love-of-her life, Charles R. Sista III and they married in 1950, raising four children in Ewing Township, New Jersey. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1992.
Elsa was a devoted mother of four children, grandmother to 10, and great-grandmother to 11 (one great-grandson preceded her in death). In her later years, she lived a very active life with her two sisters, Charlotta Dupell and Ruth Newland, in Palm City, Florida.
Like her namesake in the movie Frozen, Elsa was devoted and kind to everyone who knew her. She was a homemaker and an expert seamstress. Elsa loved playing early-morning tennis and card games with her Palm City friends and was always helping family and friends by running errands and shuttling them to appointments and watching over her grandchildren. She was active in the Red Hatters and in the Incarnation Catholic Church in Ewing Township, New Jersey and then in later years in the Holy Redeemer Church in Palm City, Florida.
Her three surviving daughters are Karen Bauer (husband Red) of Ewing Township, New Jersey, Pamela Stone (husband Dennis) of Sebastian, Florida; Dawn Patterson (husband Bill) of Yardville, New Jersey; and son Charles R. Sista IV (wife Rachel) of Port St. Lucie, Florida. Her 10 grandchildren living from coast-to-coast include Mark Bauer, Matthew Stone, JR Stone, Sam Oertel, Cody Stone, Nicole Sprague, Kelly Ramos, Stephanie Rodriguez, Charles R. Sista V, and Allie Wargo.
A Celebration of Elsa will be held on 11/19 in Vero Beach.
Arrangements are by Thomas S. Lowther Funeral Home & Crematory, Vero Beach.
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