Nancy Richardson, 92, Will be Dearly Missed

She was born May 4, 1923 in Star Junction, Pennsylvania and had resided in the Lorain area since childhood.
During World War II, Nancy worked at US Steel in Lorain. She had also worked at the Manhattan Market and in the distribution department at the Lorain Journal.

Nancy was proud of her Italian heritage and delighted in her large and sociable family—always a source of embraceable strength and great fun. Hardly a weekend ever passed when everyone was together for a birthday, a christening, or any other excuse for a family party.

And although Nancy lost her father and her brother Mike at a very young age, she found new joy in her marriage of 35 years to Robert “Bob” Richardson. Fittingly, they met a Crystal Beach, where she often went with her sister Rosetta to hear and dance to big band music in the days just after World War II. During a long courtship, Bob and Nancy did everything young couples could, attending baseball, football, and hockey games, going to air shows and county fairs, and reveling in the seasonal changes of their beloved Ohio homeland.

When they finally settled down together just before the 1950s, they found new fulfillment in the birth of their two children, Allen and Roberta. After that, it was countless summer days at Linwood Park, and family trips to Amish country, or Gettysburg, Williamsburg, Washington, D.C., and upstate New York.

In the 1970’s and early 80’s, after their son Allen moved to New York City, Bob and Nancy visited, cramming in as many Broadway shows as possible, and feasting in some of New York’s best restaurants. Nancy, ever the night owl, loved to stay up late and watch all the people on the streets of the city that never sleeps.

When Nancy lost Bob in 1984, she found new fulfillment in the birth of her grandchildren, Samantha and Cody. Ever the busy and attentive grandmother, she spent two months in London taking care of Sam in her granddaughter’s earliest days, and then returned home to be babysitter and second parent to Cody.

Ever present, and always with us when she was alive, Nancy will live on in spirit and in our hearts in all the days to come.

She was a member of St. Peter Parish and the Italian-American Veterans Post #1 Ladies Auxiliary.

She is survived by her children Allen F. Richardson (Karen Curry) of Old Greenwich, Connecticut and Roberta Trosper (Bob) of Vermilion; grandchildren Samantha Richardson of Brooklyn, New York and Cody Greenoe of Vermilion; sisters Millie Reph (Clint) of Florida and Tillie Jakubowski (James) of Lorain, brothers Lucio Tammaro and Joseph Tammaro, both of Amherst and Steve Tammaro (Char) of Lorain. She was preceded in death by her husband Robert in 1984, parents Anthony and Philomena Tammaro (nee Pometto), sister Rosetta Nicholson and brothers Mike Tammaro and Louie Tammaro.

The family will receive friends Wednesday 6-8 pm at the Gluvna-Shimo-Hromada Funeral Chapel, 3224 Broadway Ave, Lorain. The family will also receive friends on Thursday from 10:30 am until the time of the mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 am at St. Peter Parish, 3501 Oberlin Ave, Lorain. Burial will follow in Calvary Cemetery in Lorain.

Online condolences can be made at www.gluvna.net.