Christina F. Brennan, 71, passed away Sunday,Oct. 6, 2013, at her home in Benicia, Calif. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Church of the Annunciation, 50 West Midland Ave., Paramus, N.J. 07652, with interment to follow at George Washington Memorial Park, 234 Paramus Rd., Paramus, N.J. Christina was born in Bayonne, N.J., on Sept. 12, 1942, and lived in Ridgewood, N.J., for 30 years before moving to Benicia in 2010 to be close to her grandson, Jackson. Christina worked for many years as a teacher and elementary school librarian in Bayonne and Fair Lawn, N.J. She was an avid reader and enjoyed researching her family's history. Christina is survived by her sons, Terry Brennan, and Andrew Brennan, his wife, Diana; sisters, Georgina Vastola and Mary Barone-Bencivengo; brothers, Vincent and Blaise Narcisi and Anthony Barone, and her beloved grandson, Jackson Brennan. In honoring Christina's memory, the family requests that in lieu of flowers a donation be made to the ;(function() { var adKeyValue = 't='; adKeyValue+= escape('clio=ACS'); adKeyValue += escape('&cobrand=starledger'); adKeyValue += escape('&linktext=American Cancer Society'); adKeyValue += escape('&linkurl=https://www.cancer.org/involved/donate/donateonlinenow/Legacy/index?dn=mem&fn=Christina&ln=Brennan'); adKeyValue += escape('&fn=Christina'); adKeyValue += escape('&ln=Brennan'); var adClkUrl = 'http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?iu=/423686928/prod/obit-aff/obit-standard/clio-inline-1&' + adKeyValue + '&sz=1x1&c=249239264'; var adImpUrl = 'http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ad?iu=/423686928/prod/obit-aff/obit-standard/clio-inline-1&' + adKeyValue + '&sz=1x1&c=249239264'; document.write("<a href='" + adClkUrl + "' target=_blank>American Cancer Society<" + 'img' + " src='" + adImpUrl + "' style='width=1px; height=1px; display:inline;' /></a>"); }()); or a charity of your choosing. Arrangements were by Passalacqua Funeral Chapel, 707-745-3130, passalacquafuneralchapel.com.