Michael Francis Patrick Score

Michael F. Score died peacefully on January 14, 2026. Born on December 30, 1950, in Jamaica, Queens, New York, he was the eldest child of Frank B. and Julia Score, nee Barci.
Raised in Valley Stream, Long Island, Michael spent four very happy years at Archbishop Molloy High School in Briarwood, Queens, from which he graduated in 1969. He attended Villanova University in Pennsylvania and earned an undergraduate degree in psychology in 1973. A life-long learner, Michael later graduated from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia with a master’s degree in organizational development.

For his entire career, Michael worked for the phone company. While still in college, he worked two summers for The New York Telephone Company. After graduation, he began his full-time career in the marketing department of Ohio Bell in Columbus, Ohio. In 1975, he transferred to Bell of Pennsylvania, in order to live in Pennsylvania. Bell of Pennsylvania became Bell Atlantic, and Bell Atlantic became Verizon. After a 30-year career, he happily retired in 2003.

Michael lived in Philadelphia from 1975 to 2005, many of those years on Washington Square. For 20 years, Michael was an active parishioner of Old St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, serving as a Eucharistic Minister, as well as on the altar. He raised the money for the church to have a complete set of liturgical vestments and worked with the London firm of Watts & Co. on their design.

He loved to travel and visited many countries in Europe, including two trips to his grandparents’ home village of Tarsia, Italy, where he reconnected the various parts of the family who had lost touch with one another over the decades. He was also highly interested in genealogy, tracing back his family tree to discover four great-great grandfathers who served in the Civil War. In 2014, he planned a family reunion to celebrate the 100th anniversary of his grandfather immigrating to the US from Italy.

He was devoted to his parents and family and reveled in watching his six nieces and nephews grow up.

In 2005, Michael moved to the southern Maine seacoast and enjoyed the natural beauty of the area. He was an avid collector of paintings by local artists.

In 2014, he left the cold and snow of Maine for the sun of Sarasota, Florida. Then, in 2023, he returned to the City of Brotherly Love.

He is survived by his brother, Robert, and his wife, Haviland Morris, and their children, Faith and Henry; his sister, Kathleen and her husband, Matthew Anderson, and their son, Brendan, and his wife, Katie, and their child, Ash; and his brother, Thomas, and his wife, Patricia, and their children, Dillon, Jordan, and Kylie, and her husband, Ciro Pernice, and their daughters, Luella and Marley, as well as numerous cousins and close friends.

Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. on Friday, January 23rd at Edward F. Lieber Funeral Homes, Inc., 266 North Central Ave., Valley Stream New York. A Funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, January 24, at Church of the Blessed Sacrament, 201 N. Central Avenue, Valley Stream, New York, and will be live streamed.

Interment to follow at St. Charles Cemetery, where he will be laid to rest next to his parents.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Michael’s memory to Old St. Joseph’s Church, 321 Willings Alley, Philadelphia, PA 19106 or Archbishop Molloy High School 83-53 Manton St., Briarwood, NY 11435.

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