CORRAO, Ninfa b Palermo IT d Bklyn NY 1918
Brooklyn Daily Standard Union, July 3, 1918 OBITUARY
NINFA CORRAO Ninfa CORRAO, mother of Ex-Assistant District Attorney Francis L. CORRAO and Detective Sergeant Charles CORRAO, died late yesterday afternoon at the home of her son, Thomas, 4917 Fifth Avenue. She was born in Palermo, Italy, and was a member of one of the ancient families of that city who took part in the fight to free the two Sicilies from the Bourbons. When her son, Francis, ran away from school at the age of ten and stowed himself away on
the Italian steamship George Washington, to join his father in Brooklyn, Mrs. CORRAO immediately packed up and with the rest of the family came to Brooklyn in 1881. She was a leading member of the Church of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, and is survived by four sons, Francis L.,
Charles, Thomas, and John and three daughters, Mary LIPARI, Kate DELMONICO, and Nellie PALMENTOLA. The funeral will be held from her late home, tomorrow, thence to St. Rocco's Church, Fourth Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street, where requiem mass will be celebrated. Interment at Holy Cross
Cemetery. I am not related & hav eno other information.