{"id":119764,"date":"2026-01-02T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T16:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/?p=119764"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:10:06","slug":"maria-v-sokolowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/2026\/01\/02\/maria-v-sokolowski\/","title":{"rendered":"Maria V. Sokolowski"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maria Corazon V. Sokolowski, 73, of Hernando, Florida, entered into the loving arms of the Lord on December 30, 2025, at Citrus Memorial Hospital. Born to the late Cristostomo and Ester Vergara, Maria devoted her life to faith, service, and compassion. She and her husband, Steve, made Citrus County their home in 1999. Throughout her life, Maria served as a minister and generously offered her time and heart to numerous causes, always guided by her deep commitment to helping others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria is survived by her husband, Steve Sokolowski of Hernando, and her sister, Nelia Vergara of the Philippines. She was preceded in death by her brother, Efren Vergara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Thursday, January 8, 2026, at 11:00 AM at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, with Fr. Michael Suszynski officiating. Burial will take place at a later date in the Philippines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitation will be held on Thursday morning beginning at 8:30 AM at Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home, concluding with the procession to the church at 10:45 AM. During the visitation, a group of Maria\u2019s Philippine friends will offer a recitation of the Holy Rosary in her honor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Corazon V. Sokolowski, 73, of Hernando, Florida, entered into the loving arms of the Lord on December 30, 2025, at Citrus Memorial Hospital. Born to the late Cristostomo and Ester Vergara, Maria devoted her life to faith, service, and compassion. She and her husband, Steve, made Citrus County their home in 1999. Throughout her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990003,"featured_media":119765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119766,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119764\/revisions\/119766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}