Toni L. Seda-Morales, 93, died peacefully at home in West End on Thursday, Feb. 22.

Toni was born and raised in Brooklyn and adopted from a Catholic orphanage at the age of 3 by the late Margaret and Frank D’Esposito. Toni graduated from Fordham University with a bachelor’s degree and went on to work as an executive secretary for Chesebrough-Ponds until 1957.

In 1961, Toni moved to Freehold, where she raised five children and worked as the patient accounts director at Freehold Area Hospital. Later, Toni volunteered in the emergency room and maternity ward at Jersey Shore Hospital in Neptune.

A devout Catholic, Toni had been a parishioner at St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church in West End since 1990. Toni served as a eucharistic minister at the church and enjoyed holding prayer groups at her home with home-cooked Italian meals every Tuesday. Toni attended Mass every day at St. Michael’s for many years, after which she would walk the full circuit around Lake Takanassee before heading home on foot.

She is predeceased by her sons David Steen and Clifford Paul Steen.

Surviving are her children, Maggi Ware and her husband, Robert, of Neptune; Francesca Langlow and her husband, Edward, of New Orleans, LA.; Leonard Steen of Ocean Grove; and Paul Steen and his wife, Michelle, of Corpus Christi, TX; her grandchildren, William Herndon and Sara Schunk; and her great-grandchildren, Nikolai and Sheridan Steen, and Brynn and Callum Schunk.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church, 800 Ocean Ave. N, Long Branch. Burial will follow at St. Rose of Lima Cemetery, Freehold.

In lieu of traditional remembrances, Toni’s family asks with gratitude that donations in her name be made to St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church.

For messages of condolence, or to share a favorite memory of Toni, please visit her page of tribute at www.WoolleyBoglioli.com.