Marylou Wahby

Mary Lou Bonventre Wahby died Wednesday in her home surrounded by her family. She was 70 years old. Mary Lou is survived by her husband, Dr. Samir Wahby; children, Dr. Aziza Wahby, Riad Wahby, and Raffaela Kalmar; grandchildren Luca and Claudio Kalmar; mother, Mrs. Raffaela Bonventre; siblings, Peter Bonventre, Vincent Bonventre, Joseph Bonventre, Amelia Belizaire, and John Bonventre. Mary Lou was born August 30, 1950, in Brooklyn, New York. She was raised in Douglaston, New York, and in her youth she was a medal-winning swimmer, a fierce competitor who'd win race after race with remarkable grace and grit. A graduate of Beaver College (now Arcadia University)in Pennsylvania, she then earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from Adelphi University in New York, and later she and her younger sister Amelia were a highly regarded dynamic duo, nurses who worked at the Brooklyn Hospital, where their late father, Dr. Martin Bonventre, was Director of Medicine, and where they met a pair of residents... To read the full obituary, please click here: https://www.gundersonfuneralhome.com/obituaries...[more]

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