Theresa A. Tamburo

Theresa Ann Tamburo passed peacefully at her home in Georgia on February 2, 2022. Born in Greenville, Mississippi, Theresa was a lifelong resident of New Orleans, moving to the city at an early age with her parents, Dominick and Antoinette, and her brothers Dominick and Joseph. She attended Our Lady of the Sacred Heart School and Annunciation High School, from which she graduated in 1965. Loyola University was the next destination for Theresa, where she received her Bachelor of Science in 1969. She continued her education at Loyola School of Law, where she was the Associate Editor of the Loyola Law Review, Secretary of the Student Bar Association, and a member of Cardinal Key National Honor Society. Theresa graduated from Loyola School of Law in 1972, and was one of the first one-hundred women attorneys in the New Orleans Metro area. Praised for her research and writing abilities, she went on to clerk for the Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. During her career, Theresa worked for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office and was in private practice. Continuing her desire for education, she received her Master of Law in Banking and Finance from Boston University in 1991. She was more than a bright and capable attorney. Theresa was strong and determined, beating cancer five times. She refused to let it restrict her and had plans for a full life in her retirement. Theresa is survived by her Sister-in-Law Terry Westerfield, her partner of 27 years Fred Wagner, cousins MaryAnn Patterson (Pat), Etta Marie Thomas (Barry), Denise Maloney (Joe), Mary Margaret Kuhlmann (Dave), Dan Patterson (Chris), Lindsey Robertson (Robbie) and a host of other family and friends. Theresa was preceded in death by her parents Dominick and Antoinette (nee Miller) Tamburo and her brother Joseph Tamburo. Her brother Dominick passed June 24th of this year. A memorial service will be held in the chapel of Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd., in New Orleans, on Friday July 8, 2022 beginning at 2:00 p.m. A visitation will be held at the funeral home beginning at Noon. The internment will follow the chapel service in the family mausoleum in Metairie Cemetery.