Enjoyed ballroom dancing, golf, painting
Published September 19, 2019
REVERE — Elizabeth (Ballerini) Mitchell, 81, of Revere, formerly East Boston, passed away at on Sunday, September 8, 2019.
Elizabeth was born on November 15, 1937, in Boston, to Andrew and Rose Ballerini. She graduated from East Boston High School in 1955. Elizabeth was devoutly religious and a very sociable woman. Over the years she developed interests in golf, painting, ballroom dancing, playing games and traveling.
She deeply enjoyed her years as a St. Vincent de Paul volunteer at the church she attended while living in Port Orange, Florida. Elizabeth was preceded in death by her husband, Stephen Mitchell, and her mother, father, and son Jimmy.
Elizabeth was a loving mother of Stephen Teta and his wife Denise of Billerica, the late Jimmy Teta, Lauren McMullen and her husband Jay of North Reading, and Andrea Kimmel and her husband Robert of Rocky River, Ohio.
She was the beloved grandmother of Stephen Teta and his wife Stacy of Tyngsboro, Michael Teta and his wife Lytta of Wilmington, James McMullen of Tewksbury, and Chiara and Cody Kimmel of Rocky River, Ohio. Elizabeth was also the doting great-grandmother of Jocelyn and Luke Teta of Tyngsboro and Otilia and Genevieve Teta of Wilmington.
A memorial service and collation will be held on Saturday, October 12, 2019 at the Union Congregational Church, 148 Haverhill St., North Reading at 10:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in her memory to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or by calling 1-800-805-5856 or visiting stjude.org.
