Katherine H. Luce Cifarelli, a long-time resident of East Haven, Connecticut, passed away in the early morning of May 9th, 2014 at Talmadge Park in East Haven. She was the loving and devoted wife of Noah D. Cifarelli. Born February 11th, 1926 in Providence, Rhode Island, she was the daughter of the late Charles H. and Katherine White Luce. Mother of Donna M. Cassella, Kathryn M. Marcy and her late husband Eugene, Sharon A. Cifarelli, and Noah Cifarelli, Jr. Grandmother of Shannon-Leigh Cretella, her husband Christopher, and their three children Kailey, Ashley, and Justin; Stephen J. Natale and his two children Adrian Medina and Stephen J. Natale, Jr.; Richard D. Cassella and his wife Courtney; Cathryn Argyros and her husband Louis; Robert E. Cassella; Lisa M. Cassella and her fiancé Jacob Murphy; Nicholas N. and Anthony J. Cifarelli, along with their mother Diane Marello Cifarelli. Sister of the late Frank and Paul Luce, Ola Sloot, JoAnne Smith and Evelyn Caird. Sister-in-law of Alice Stone.

Her funeral procession will leave the North Haven Funeral Home, 36 Washington Ave., Monday morning at 10:30. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated in Our Lady of Pompeii Church at 11. Interment will follow in All Saints Cemetery. The visiting hours will be Sunday from 3 to 6 PM.