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Lillian Marie Ambrosio

née O'Brien

1928 – 1995

Lillian Marie O'Brien Ambrosio

Lillian Marie O'Brien

The Eldest

First child of Miles Murtha O'Brien and Lillian Josephine Robertson, born in 1928 — the same year her parents married at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Brooklyn. Named for her mother, she was the one who arrived first, the beginning of the family that Miles the carpenter and Lillian the orphan would build together.

Lillian Marie married Dr. Severino Joseph Ambrosio, a physician, and together they raised their family in the Old Bridge and Parlin areas of New Jersey. She knew both great joy and profound loss — welcoming eight children, four of whom died in infancy or early childhood.

Born: 1928, Brooklyn, New York
Married: Dr. Severino Joseph Ambrosio, M.D. (1926–2010)
Settled: Old Bridge & Parlin, New Jersey
Died: 1995

The Ambrosio Family

Lillian Marie & Dr. Severino Joseph Ambrosio

Dr. Severino Joseph Ambrosio, M.D.

1926 – 2010

Lillian Marie married Severino Joseph Ambrosio, a physician who practiced in New Jersey. Together they built a life in the Old Bridge and Parlin communities, raising their family through decades of both joy and heartbreak. Dr. Ambrosio survived Lillian by fifteen years, passing away in 2010.

The Children

Eight children of Lillian Marie & Dr. Severino Ambrosio

  • Margaret Mary Ambrosio

    1953

    In Memoriam
  • Kathleen Ambrosio

    Born 1954

  • Joseph Peter Ambrosio

    Born 1956

  • Bernadette Marie Ambrosio

    1957

    In Memoriam
  • Patricia Jacqueline Ambrosio

    Born 1958

  • Robert Thomas Ambrosio

    1961

    In Memoriam
  • Thomas John Ambrosio

    1963 – 1966

    In Memoriam
  • Patrick Michael Ambrosio

    Born 1965

Stories & Memories

Remembering Lillian Marie

The eldest daughter, named for her mother, Lillian Marie knew a truth that echoed across the generations of this family: that love and loss walk together. Her mother Lillian had lost Helen Grace at eight. Lillian Marie lost four of her own children — Margaret Mary, Bernadette Marie, Robert Thomas, and Thomas John — before they had the chance to grow. And still she persevered, raising Kathleen, Joseph, Patricia, and Patrick with a physician husband in the New Jersey communities where she had spent her life. She carried her mother's name and, it seems, her mother's resilience.

— Storyline Genealogy research notes

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