Rosemarie Restagno, 1943–2025, former instructor at Moody Street beauty salon academy

Rosemarie (Esposito) Restagno, of Waltham, died on Christmas Day at Lowell General Hospital. She was 82.

Rosemarie was born in Cambridge on Feb. 27, 1943, a daughter of late Alphonse and Anne (Russo) Esposito. Raised in Watertown, she was a graduate of Watertown High School. A talented hair stylist and cosmetologist, she worked at the Robert and Richard Hair Salon in Belmont for many years. Rosemarie passed on her experience to hundreds of students as an instructor at the salon’s beauty academy on Moody Street.

In her later years, Rosemarie enjoyed making nursing home residents look and feel their best working in the salons of Brookline and Newton nursing homes. Social by nature she loved getting to know the residents and always looked forward to appointments with her longtime clients.

In 1965 she married her husband Dominic V. Restagno in Saint Patrick’s Church and the pair lived for a time in Watertown before making Waltham their lifelong home in 1972. The pair shared 57 wonderful years together until his death on Feb. 10, 2023.

She leaves her children, Julie Bonavita (Carmine) of Tewksbury and Dominic Restagno (Jill) of Millbury; her grandson, Nicolino Bonavita; her brothers and sister, David Esposito (Lauri) of West Boylston, John Esposito (Jean) of Ashland and Cheryl Anastasi (Peter) of Waltham; and many nieces, nephews and their families.

Family and friends will honor and remember Rosemarie’s life by gathering for an evening wake in The Joyce Funeral Home, 245 Main Street (Rte. 20), Waltham, on Monday, Jan. 5 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. and again at 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning before leaving in procession to Saint Patrick’s Church, 212 Main Street, Watertown, where her funeral mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Burial will follow in Grove Hill Cemetery, Waltham.