Obituary of Hilda M. Rowe

Hilda Maria Cortina Rowe, of Brooklyn, New York, passed away peacefully on June 13, 2024, at Winchester Gardens, in Maplewood, New Jersey at the age of 92.

Visitation will be held at Preston Funeral Home, 53 South Orange Avenue South Orange, New Jersey on Saturday, June 22, from 1:30-2:30 PM. The Funeral Service will follow at 2:30 PM. Interment will be private.  

Hilda was born on June 21,1931 in Vertientes, a small town in the Cuban province of Camagüey. As the eldest daughter in a family of thirteen children, Hilda helped raise her ten younger siblings and devoted much of her life to supporting them.

On July 23,1952, at the age of 23, Hilda married Vicente Rowe whom she first met when she was eight years old. The couple immigrated to the United States nine years later, settling in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn. Hilda became a proud US citizen in 1967 and worked at Chase Manhattan Bank for over twenty years, retiring at age 62 to care for her husband.

Hilda was predeceased by her husband of 61 years, Vicente Rowe, and eight of her siblings: Eliseo, Felix, Caridad, Fermina, Victoria, Celina, Francisca and Remigio.

Hilda is survived by her daughter, Jacqueline Gagne and her husband Kenneth Gagne; her grandchildren: Caleb and Lucy Gagne; brothers Guillermo and Genovevo and sisters Marta and Margarita.

For more information or to send condolences please visit prestonfuneralhome.net