Maria Weiszer

February 1, 2020

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Maria Weiszer (nee Szabo), age 99 at her residence in West Hartford. Maria and her husband, the late Francis F. Weiszer, moved to the U.S from Hungary in 1957 and settled in Connecticut. Maria will be remembered for the warm home she and Francis created together and opened up to family and friends. Treasured memories include the cocktails she always had ready to greet guests and her love of holiday decorations. Her incredible baking will continue to be her legacy and she will be in our hearts when we make Christmas cookies and gingerbread houses in the years to come. She was a strong and independent woman who worked for many years in the laboratory at Laurel Heights Hospital in Shelton, after which she spent many more years tending an Eden-like garden at her home in South Windsor. For a long time she was an active part of greater Hartford’s Hungarian community. She loved to craft, and she loved to shop. But most of all, she loved to garden and, even after moving to her apartment, she kept flowers on her balcony and had a plot in a nearby community garden. She is survived by her brothers Bela Szabo (Klari), Kosd Hungary, Nicholas (Kathleen) in White Rock, Canada, and sister-in-law Ida, Budapest, nieces Elizabeth, Shelagh and Kristy and other nieces and nephews in Europe. Special thanks to members of the Riemer family, for the many years of friendship and their dedication and loving attention to Maria in the years after she was widowed. Friends and family may call Thursday, from 4-6 p.m. at the Molloy Funeral Home, 906 Farmington Ave. W. Hartford. Funeral services will be private with burial in Hungary. Directions and online expressions of sympathy may be made at www.molloyfuneralhome.com