In loving memory...
I loved my Aunt Ida so much! She was truly amazing! She loved to receive my phone calls and loved to talk about the "good old days". My grandmother and Aunt Ida were the very best of friends. My grandmother had passed, and Aunt Ida always told me how much she deeply missed her. She told me how hard my grandmother worked, she remembered how my grandmother was making crochet towels for my wedding and shared stories about my father when he was young. Aunt Ida even helped me to put together our family tree. My grandmother married Carl Randazzo (my grandfather), and his sister (Lucia) married Guiseppe (Joseph) John Trovato. Their son (Louie Anthony Trovato) married Ida Sophie Di Pasquale. So, not only was my grandmother, Frances Jennie Campione (Randazzo), her very best and dearest friend, Aunt Ida was also my grandmother's maid of honor in her wedding, and Aunt Ida had married into the family on my grandfather's side. Even at 102 years of age, she was as smart as a whip and had a clear and concise memory of the past. After combating COVID 19 and being hospitalized for about a month, she remarkedly pulled through. I was alarmed when I tried to call her at the nursing home, only to learn she was hospitalized but was so happy and relieved when she was able to speak with me during her hospital stay. When she returned to the nursing home, she had been moved from the 6th floor to the 8th floor, and I wasn't able to get a hold of her. It was such a wonderful surprise when Aunt Ida found out I had been calling to see how she was feeling and called me instead. I am so amazed at how she could remember (at 102 years of age) so many details from her past. She really enjoyed visits from her family and grandchildren. She truly appreciated the little things, like the wonderful chair her daughter, Anne Marie, bought her, her lovely blanket, and the gifts from her grandchildren hanging in the window. She always thanked me again and again for my phone calls and told me to please call anytime. She said I made her day. I am so sad about her passing, and she will be deeply missed, but I am happy that she was able to lead a good full life, that I was blessed to have been able to have such a wonderful relationship with her and so grateful on how she has kept the spirit of my grandmother and grandfather alive with all of the caring memories that she had shared with me. My deepest and heartfelt sympathy is being sent to all of her loved ones...