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Genevieve M. “Jenny” (Pietras) Banas, 93, of Winchester, VA, passed away on Sunday, March 20, 2022. Jenny was a six year employee of New England Telephone and Telegraph Company and then a thirty one year employee in the Processing Department at Chicopee Savings Bank. She ended her career with the Club Demo Service at Cosco for seventeen years. Jenny was born in Chicopee on December 4, 1928. She was the daughter of the late Martin and Mary (Piechota) Pietras. Jenny was a 1948 graduate of Chicopee High School. She was a communicant of the Basilica of St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr and a member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, the Rosary Society and the Bingo Committee. After 84 years in Chicopee, Jenny moved to Virginia to be with her daughter. She was one of the first residents of The Village at Orchard Ridge and enjoyed her new life there. Jenny is survived by her daughter, Carol Ann Carroll and her husband, Robert “Jack” Carroll, Jr. of Winchester, VA; a brother, Edward Pietras and his wife, Alice of Severna Park, MD and two grandchildren, Robert “Rob” Carroll III and his wife, Louise and Heather Carroll and several nieces and nephews. Jenny is predeceased by her husband, Frank J. Banas, who passed away in 1981 and her grandson, Ryan Francis Carroll. Visitation will be held on Saturday, June 18, 2022 at the Cierpial Memorial Funeral Home on, 61 Grape St. in Chicopee from 9:30 to 10:30 am, followed by a Liturgy of Christian Burial at the Basilica of St. Stanislaus at 11 am. Burial will be in St. Stanislaus Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Anne Shrine, 16 Church St. Fiskdale, MA 01518.