Marina A. Monday, age 86, of Butler, passed away Thursday, November 24, at VNA Inpatient Hospice after a lingering illness.

Born in Butler on January 25, 1930, she was the daughter of the late Arturo and Emilia Gori Pasquinelli.

Marina was a woman completely devoted to her husband, her family and her home.  She was a woman of strength, compassion, humor, unconditional love and selflessness.  For 30 years, Wednesday night was family dinner night, which she prepared for children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  It was always a night of abundant food, boisterous conversation and laughter.  Always laughter.

She was a member of Saint Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church.

Marina was employed as a bookkeeper at Unicorn Card and Gifts.

She is survived by one son, Henry Monday, Jr. and his wife, Lisa, of Fenelton; two daughters, Nancy Monday Yates and her husband, Kevin, of Butler, and Toni Lee Price and her husband, Roger, of Franklin Park.

Also surviving are seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Henry J. Monday, Sr., who passed away March 2, 2008; two sisters, Norma Milheim Rider and Leda Petrigni; and one brother, Henry Pasquinelli.

Friends will be received in the Martin Funeral Home, Inc., 429 Center Avenue, Butler, on Monday from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tuesday at 10 a.m. from Saint Michael the Archangel R.C. Church.

Burial will take place in Saint Michael's Cemetery.