Niveria Emilia (Bettencourt) DaSilva
SAN JOSE, CA Niveria Emilia
(Bettencourt) DaSilva, 86 of San Jose, California, passed away on
Thursday, July 16, 2020. She was the widow of the late John M. DaSilva
who passed away in 2005.
She was born in Terceira, Azores, Portugal
on January 17, 1934 and was a daughter of the late Carlos Bettencourt
DaSilva and the late Helena (DaPalma) B. DaSilva. She was raised and
educated in Terceira where she married John and in the 1960's migrated
to the United States settling in the Back Central Street neighborhood of
Lowell. She was very active in the Lowell Portuguese community and was a
communicant of St. Anthony Church.
Since 2005, Niveria has lived in
San Jose, California with her family and was very active in the
Portuguese community and a communicant of Five Wounds Portuguese
National Parish.
Niveria is survived by her three children, John G.
DaSilva and his wife, Sharyon of Hoffman Estates, IL, Filomena M.
Mendonca and her husband, Frank of San Jose, CA, and Charles M. DaSilva
of San Jose, CA; her four grandchildren, Jennifer M. Wilson and her
husband, Eric of Eureka, CA, Angela M. Mendonca of San Jose, CA, Andrea
L. Kalteux and her husband, Pierce of Bloomington, IL, and Thomas J.
DaSilva and his fiance Kyra Borchers of Aurora, IL. She is also survived
by two great grandchildren, Sara Anne Wilson and Clark Henry Kalteux;
her sister, Grimaneza Flores and her husband, Jesuino of Lowell; her
sister in law, Rosa DaSilva of Lowell; and many nieces, nephews, and
cousins.
She was also predeceased by her brother, the late Carlos A. Bettencourt who passed away in 2002.
HER
FUNERAL AND BURIAL WITH HER HUSBAND TOOK PLACE AT ST. PATRICK CEMETERY
IN LOWELL, MA. ARRANGEMENTS BY THE MCDONOUGH FUNERAL HOME, 14 HIGHLAND
STREET, LOWELL, MA 978-458-6816.
