Alberta Stello

Alberta Stello, 99, of Franklin, MA (formerly of Chatham, Ma), died peacefully at home on February 10, 2024 with family by her side.

She was born in Franklin, MA in 1924 to Otto and Marguerite Yankee and was the oldest of six children. Alberta attended Franklin schools and graduated from Franklin High School in 1941. She married her husband, Quido Stello, also of Franklin, in November of 1942. Quido had enlisted in the Army in 1941 and was deployed to Europe soon after they were married. Alberta graduated from the Katharine Gibbs School‘s business and secretarial program after high school. During the war, she worked in the inventory department of the Shearling Division in Norwood, MA.

When her husband was discharged in 1945, they built a home in Franklin, founded Stello Construction, and started their family. Alberta was a homemaker and active in the local Rebekah’s Lodge and the Franklin Federated Church. In 1972, they moved to Chatham, MA where they resided for over 30 years. Alberta worked at the Chatham High School and during the summer at the Chatham Bakery where she made many life-long friends. A year after her husband’s death in 2003, she moved back to Franklin to be closer to her children and siblings.

Her greatest joy was time spent with family and friends and sharing her pastimes with others. She was a talented decorative painter. She restored antiques, and her husband built furniture and other items that she enjoyed painting. She delighted in giving her work to family and friends. She was active in civic organizations in Chatham, including the Chatham Chapter of the AFS. She and her husband sometimes stayed up all night to finish 3-D puzzles and other projects to donate to fundraisers for the local hospital and charities. As in everything she did, it was being and laughing with others that she enjoyed most.

Alberta is survived by her sister Claire Oliversen and her brother Kenneth Yankee and his wife Robbie. She is survived by her children, Jan, Bruce, Curt and Pam Stello and their spouses, and her grandchildren, Torin Mullen, James Stello and Janine Medeiros. She is also survived by four great grandchildren, Kealahn and Annabelle Mullen and Denton and Elora Medeiros, and many nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her husband Quido Stello, her sisters Norma Tibbetts, Virginia Bowen and Geraldine Hatley, and her grandson Christopher Stobbart.

Alberta cared about children in need. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to Boston’s Children’s Hospital 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115.