Rosalinda Gioconda Mannetta

On August 8, 2025, Rosalinda Gioconda Mannetta, loving mother of Marco Elia Mannetta, beloved daughter of the late Alfonso and Gioconda Mannetta, devoted sister of Elia Mannetta and wife Beatrice passed away. She is also survived by many loving friends.

She attended Our Lady of Pompei High School and Mercy High School, graduating in 1975, and going on to Loyola College and Johns Hopkins University. She trained as a pharmaceutical technician and worked at Mercy Hospital. Years later, she went to work at the headquarters of the FBI.

(Picture 1) Rosalinda was 15 years old when she wore the Italian traditional dress sewn by our mother, Gioconda, at the Baltimore City-wide Italian Festival inaugurating the Inner Harbor in 1973.

In the mid-1980's, she co-hosted a weekly one-hour Italian-American radio show from WTOW, called "Voce Italiana", with her brother Elia. In later years she co-hosted 2 other Italian-American Radio shows.

(Pictures 2 & 3) She was active in the religious societies at St. Leo's the Great Parish, Saint Gabriel's Society, the Saint Anthony's Society, and the Sodality of Our Lady. She was also a teacher of language and culture at The Oreste Pandola Adult Learning Center. For almost 2 decades she taught there in Little Italy and in other satellite locations around Maryland.

A visitation will be held on Friday, August 15 from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM in the funeral home of Charles S. Zannino Funeral Service at 263 S. Conkling St. A funeral mass will be celebrated on Saturday, August 16 at 9:00 AM at St. Leo the Great church at 227 S. Exeter St. Inurnment will be held at a later date in Sardinia, Italy, joining her parents and other loved ones.

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