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Funeral Mass Thursday in Port St. Lucie for slain Peace Corps volunteer Thomas Maresco
A funeral Mass for Thomas Carmine Maresco Jr., a 24-year-old Peace Corps volunteer killed Sept. 3 in the southern Africa country of Lesotho, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Lucie Catholic Church, 280 S.W. Prima Vista Blvd.
Funeral Mass Thursday in Port St. Lucie for slain Peace Corps volunteer Thomas Maresco
Funeral Mass Thursday in Port St. Lucie for slain Peace Corps volunteer
* By staff report
* TCPalm
* Posted September 13, 2010 at 3:17 p.m.
PORT ST. LUCIE - A funeral Mass for Thomas Carmine Maresco Jr., a 24-year-old Peace Corps volunteer killed Sept. 3 in the southern Africa country of Lesotho, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Lucie Catholic Church, 280 S.W. Prima Vista Blvd.
Burial will follow at Riverview Memorial Park, 1109 N. U.S. 1 in Fort Pierce. The Maresco family will receive friends from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Yates Funeral Home, 7951 S. U.S. 1 in Port St. Lucie.
Maresco was shot and killed Sept. 3 in an apparent robbery attempt as he and a friend were walking from a farewell function at a hotel in Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, a mountainous kingdom surrounded by South Africa.
A 2004 graduate of Lincoln Park Academy in Fort Pierce, Maresco joined the Peace Corps after graduating with a biology degree from the University of Florida in 2008 and began service as a science teacher in the highlands village of Katse, Lesotho, in November 2009.
According to the Peace Corps, he also coached several sports, including basketball and swimming, and was a representative on the Peace Corps Lesotho HIV/AIDS committee.
Maresco was scheduled to complete his Peace Corps service in January 2012.
Born Feb. 15, 1986, in Port Jefferson, N.Y., Maresco enjoyed playing guitar, painting, fishing, scuba diving and following the University of Florida Gators. He was a member of Sigma Chi fraternity and St. Lucie Catholic Church.
Survivors include his parents, Thomas and Emily Maresco Sr. of Port St. Lucie; his fiancee, Maya Zahn-Saucier; maternal grandmother Ann Serrago; paternal grandfather Carmine Maresco; uncles Robert and Keith Serrago and Kevin McGann; aunts Sandie McGann and Patricia Serrago; cousins Robert, Jason, Amber and Gregory Serrago, Britany and Nicholas Smith, Lawrence and Nicole Basil, and Kevin, Susan, Kenton and Kayla Dickerson.
Thomas Maresco Sr. returned Monday night from a trip to Johannesburg. South Africa, to retrieve his son's body.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made at any PNC bank branch to the Thomas C. Maresco Jr. Memorial Medical Scholarship Fund at Indian River State College.
An online registration may be signed at yatesfuneralhome.com.
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Headlines: September, 2010; Peace Corps Lesotho; Directory of Lesotho RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Lesotho RPCVs; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Crime; Fallen; Murder
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