Ventura, California
1922 - 2013
March 14, 1922 - August. 9, 2013
Sylvia was born in Los Angeles, California on March 14, 1922 to Sylvester Louis Prior and Mary Louise Landon Prior. She passed away peacefully on August 9, 2013 in Ventura, California. Sylvia taught accordion and piano in Los Angeles and later in Oxnard...
Read MoreRIP Sylvia. My heartfelt thanks to you for so enthusiastically helping me to re-establish my family's accordion traditions here in the United States, as your father did with my grandfather, Frank C.R. Ricchio, when he first arrived here in the early 1930s. As musical tradesman, performer and now scholar, I will always be grateful to you.
Dr. Frank Ricchio-Strnad
August 25, 2013 | Santa Monica, CA
Dear Adrian Jo and Sylvana, I read of your mothers' passing in the Star. My mother knew your mother and grandfather very well. My mother, Alma Dube, was a professional acordionist and traveled at one time with a stage review "The Accordion Idea". Memories are coming back to tme as I think of your family. Your family were great friends with Anna, Rosalie (Bernie Quinn) and Frances Ann
(Irv LeComte) Greiler. I don't know if your mom ever mentioned them. I lost track of them years ago....
August 20, 2013
Sylvia with AFNA Little Cash Winners, 1978
RIP Sylvia....thanks for all you've done to promote the accordion. Thanks to you and AFNA I have my musical career and hope to continue the work you have done - showing that the accordion is a legitimate instrument. You hold a special place in my musical heart! xo
Gigi Rabe
August 15, 2013 | Culver City, CA
Sylvia with AFNA Little Cash winners, 1978
August 15, 2013
