Mafalda A. DeRosa Galka

October 12, 1926 - April 11, 2014

GALKA, Mafalda A. (nee DeRosa), 87, of Garfield, on Friday, April 11, 2014. Born in Jersey City, she lived there and in East Rutherford before moving to Garfield. She was a former parishioner of Our Lady of Sorrows R.C. Church, Garfield Mafalda was the beloved wife of the late Frank Walter Galka, devoted mother of Frank Anthony Galka, and his wife Cheryl, of Hackettstown, Beverly Monacchio, and her husband John, of Wayne, and Dawn Pernetti, and her husband Vincent, of Maywood, loving grandmother of 6 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren, dear sister of Angelina Contegiacomo of North Haledon, and the late Joseph DeRosa, Mildred "Dolly" Lagarzo, Rose Roche, Eleanor Palaia, Antoinette Opihory, and Marie Monico. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38105, in memory of Mafalda A. Galka would be appreciated. Visit kamienskifuneralhomes.com