Romilda Prosdocimi Zahran

Romilda P. " Rome" Zahran,96, of Fayetteville , passed away Friday, July 31, 2015, surrounded by her family, after a short illness.

Mrs. Zahran was born Jan 30, 1919, in Baltimore, MD. to the late Angelo and Teresa Prosdocimi. She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred T. Zahran, her parents, sisters, Rose Bosica and Mary Macri, both of Baltimore, Florinda Betor, of Albany, NY. and Carmella Verne, of Fayetteville.

While working with the Treasury Department in Washington in the spring of 1943, she reluctantly went on a blind date with Corporal Fred Zahran, a young GI from Fayetteville stationed at FT. Meade. They ended up getting married on a 3-day pass in September , 1943, before he was shipped off to Europe during WWII. After the war, they moved to Fayetteville, where she worked with the Social Security Administration while her husband managed Sterling Jewelers in downtown Fayetteville. Later, she would leave that job and join her husband when he purchased the store, renaming it Rome's Jewelers, in 1960, and operating it until his death in 1997.

She was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church and St. Michael The Archangel Maronite Catholic Church, Highland Country Club, and a founding member of the Prosdocimi Lodge, Order Sons of Italy in America. Always active, she was  member of the Market Square Players, the precursor to the Fayetteville Little Theater, avid painter , golfer and expert seamstress.

She is survived by her daughter, Teresa Vaught and husband, David, of Garland; son, Fred T. Zahran  Jr., and wife,  Angie, of Fayetteville; grandchildren, Teresa  White and husband Clay, of Carthage, Andrea Zahran and partner Karen Mobley, of Holly Springs, Tony Vaught, of Garland, Fred T. "Tripp" Zahran III, Katherine Duff , both of Fayetteville , and Benjamin Duff and wife, Ester, of Cary; great-grandchildren, Samantha Zahran, of Holy Springs, Benjamin Duff Jr., of Cary and Stella Campbell, of Fayetteville. "Aunt Rome" will be greatly missed by her many nieces and nephews.

A  Prayer Service, will be held at 6:30 Monday, August 3 in Rogers and Breece Funeral Home Chapel. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. following the Prayer Service. A Funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, August 4, 2015 at St. Patrick's Church on Village Dr. interment to follow in Lafayette Memorial Park Cemetery.

 In lieu of flowers , memorials may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the American Cancer Society.

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