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Julia Moriconi Obituary
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Paulette Moriconi DeFazio
December 17, 2024
I never forgot her, my dear Aunt Judy, the wife of my Uncle, my dad's brother. I grew up with her....I remember every party and every Sunday dinner at my Grandmothers. We kept in touch in later years and she kept me updated on my cousins, her daughters. I remember so clearly the announcement of the birth of her daughters. I remember her beauty and kindness and her instructions to me on how to drive, when I was just learning. She left a beautiful legacy in my heart, I thought of her often and will never forget her.
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Marlo Fries
February 22, 2024
I have a story for you about my mother. To me, it cuts right to the core of who she was. She was intellectually curious. She liked politics. She liked history. She read widely and chose challenging books. She loved Scrabble and crossword puzzles. In her senior yearbook, a teacher described her a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge.
Imagine it´s 1986. It was the year of the Chernobyl and Challenger disasters. The Iran-Contra affair was in the news. Halley´s comet was in the sky. Top Gun was in the theaters and The Oprah Winfrey Show made its debut. We girls feathered our hair, while the grown women put on their biggest and best shoulder pads before heading into the office.
There was an evening routine at our house. Dinner was over by 6:00. I did the dishes to earn my allowance and my mother settled in to watch the local news. The national news followed at 6:30, and then Jeopardy at 7:00. She loved Jeopardy and usually got the answers, or rather the questions, right. This was long before you could just pause what you were watching, and I knew interrupting this hour and a half of TV was a bad idea.
One night in the fall of 1986, after the were dishes done, I was upstairs doing my homework. I came across a question asking me to name several current Supreme Court Justices. I didn´t know a single one. To save myself a trip to the library, I thought I´d just see if maybe my mother could help me out. I went downstairs and poked my head into the den. Jeopardy was on, but there was a commercial, so I took a chance. I asked if she knew any of the names. She looked at me, sighed, and said "wait a minute" in an unusually tense tone. I remember thinking that´s weird. She got up, and passing by me on her way out of the room she said, "Wait right here. Stay here." There was no way I was going to stay put. What was she up to?
I followed right on heels out to the kitchen. She reached up to the top of the fridge and brought down her coupon basket. It was a long, rectangular wicker basket, about 2 1/2 inches high, with little handles on the ends. There was a pencil and paper with the beginning of the next week´s grocery list in front, and then about 20 envelopes, all neatly lined up in a filing system. Each envelope was numbered on the top right and had the category of product clearly written in the center. I routinely helped clip and file coupons on Sunday evenings, while 60 minutes played on the little kitchen TV, so I thought I was very familiar with the basket´s contents. I was wrong though, because she reached under the envelopes filled with coupons for Honey Nut Cheerios and E.L. Fudge cookies and pulled out another handwritten list - containing the names of all nine Supreme Court Justices.
And that was Judy.
Mary Motyka Kenney
February 21, 2024
I loved how Mrs. Moriconi was always so welcoming of me into her beautiful home as a neighborhood friend & schoolmate of her daughter, Chrissy. My mom & I moved from Auburn to Irondequoit after my father´s death & my mom´s remarriage to Ray Keefe. Growing up in Irondequoit was pure joy, and Mrs. Moriconi always had a beautiful & warm smile!! Mary Motyka Kenney
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