Visitation will be on Friday, April 1, 2016, at Grunnagle-Ament-Nelson Funeral Home, from 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. Friends are invited to attend a Mass of the Resurrection on Saturday, April 2, 2016, at 11:00 A.M., at Sacred Heart Church. Inurnment will follow at Calvary Cemetery. Donations may be made to Sacred Heart/Saint Benedict’s Church, Saint Jude’s Hospital, or a charity of your choice, c/o the mortuary.
Alicia Filice, (Licia Cosco Filice), 88 years old of Hollister, passed on March 18, 2016, to join her beloved husband, John S. Filice.
Alicia was born to the late Gaetano and Julia Cosco (Filice), on January 12, 1928, in Figline, Italy, with a childhood in Piane Crati in the region of Calabria.
At seven years old, Alicia traveled to America with her mother, Julia, to live with her Lico grandparents in San Jose.
When her mother remarried, they moved to Gilroy to create a beautiful new family with Gene Filice, sisters, Sara and Anna, and brother, Bill.
She completed her education in Gilroy.
In 1949 she moved to Hollister when she married Johnnie, and they started a family, a grocery store business (D & F Market), also worked at the Hollister Canning Company, and later a retail career at JC Penney’s.
Number one on her list was family, friends and preparing pasta and Italian goodies for the grandchildren.
Alicia and Johnnie raised three children, Rosemarie (Jerry), Jim (Kathrine), Bob (Beth). They had eight grandchildren, Patrick (Pam), Kristopher (Heather), Karen (Chris), Mark (Claire), Joseph, Soquel, Natalie, and eight great-grandchildren.
After retirement, she was a volunteer Grandma teacher’s aide for 18 years at Cerra Vista School.
Alicia belonged to Sacred Heart/Saint Benedict’s Church, and belonged to the ICF.
Preceded in death by her husband, Johnnie Filice and grandson, Jon Paul Foshee.
