Folsom Funeral Service

Maria Vera Zita Menezes, a resident of Westwood since 1990, died Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at her home in Westwood.  She was 63.  Maria was born June 30, 1951 in Mudigere, India, one of the seven children of Ben and Rose (Pais) Rasquinha.  She was a graduate of St. Mary’s High School in Mangalore, St Agnes College in Mangalore, India, and Kasturba Medical College in Mangalore. She specialized in obstetrics and gynecology and practiced as an OB/GYN physician in Mangalore for a few years. In the United States Maria did her residency in psychiatry at Boston University.  She started her career in the United States as a psychiatrist at South Shore Mental Health in Quincy and later worked at Riverside Community Care in Norwood and at Blue Hills Counselling Center in Braintree.  She was on the executive committee of the Indian Medical Association of New England; a member of the Oakley Country Club in Watertown; and a parishioner of St. Denis Church in Westwood.  Maria is survived by her husband Melvyn A.J. Menezes; her daughter, Andrea M.G. Menezes of Westwood; her sister, Priya Mascarenhas, and her husband Mohan, of Bangalore, India; and her five brothers, Primus Rasquinha and his wife Therese, Titus Rasquinha, and his wife Marina, all of Bangalore, India, and Linus Rasquinha, Vitus Rasquinha, and his wife Corrine, and Clitus Rasquinha, all of Mangalore, India. She was the sister-in-law of the late Lolita Saldanha, and her late husband Sylvy, the late Bobby Menezes, and his wife Leila, Kevin Menezes, and his wife Maryann, and Rosita Aranha, and her husband Jude.  Visiting hours will be held Friday, Dec 19th from 4 to 8 PM at the Folsom Funeral Home, 649 High Street, Westwood.  Relatives and friends will gather at the funeral home Saturday at 9:30 am and proceed to St. Denis Church, 157 Washington Street (Route 1A) Westwood for her Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 AM.  Burial will follow in New Westwood Cemetery, Westwood.

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