GIGLIOLA B. TATGE

TATGE GIGLIOLA BREDA TATGE (Age 90) Died peacefully on January 3, 2012 Born Gigliola Maria Angelina Breda on January 1, 1923 in the northern Italian town of Marostica, she immigrated with her family in 1926 to Curitiba, Brazil. Gigliola spent her formative years in Sao Paulo attending the Instituto Dante Alighieri. Fluent in five languages, including English, she became enamored of American culture and enhanced her studies by working at the Cultural Union Brazil-United States. She was encouraged by her mentors to attend college in the U.S. and in 1945 entered the University of Missouri in Columbia, from which she graduated with a BA in two years. Gigliola earned an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1948. It was there she met her future husband, E. William (Bill) Tatge. They were married in Rome in May 1949. A devoted and loving mother of five, Gigliola traveled and lived with her family in numerous cities in the Middle East, Europe and the United States. In 1974 she received a certificate from the Anteneo Artistico di Milano in art history with a focus on the Italian Renaissance. She taught courses in Italian Renaissance and in early Flemish art out of her Washington home from 1976 to 1982. A lover of opera, she and Bill made a point of attending operas at all the great houses of the world, from La Scala to Santa Fe. Gigliola and Bill moved to the senior community of Maplewood Park Place in Bethesda in January 2002. Gill enjoyed an active social life at Maplewood and her many friends there were of great support when Bill died in June of 2008. Gigliola is survived by her son, George of Florence, Italy and his wife, Lynn Farnsworth; and by daughters, Catherine, wife of Dominique Lasseur of Cornwall Bridge, CT, Barbara of Bethesda, MD, Jean, wife of Philip Collis of Manhattan, NY and Pamela, wife of Jerry Zinser of Madison, CT. She leaves nine grandchildren, two step-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her devoted brother, Italo Breda, of Sao Paulo, Brazil and his family. A Funeral Mass will be held Wednesday, January 9, 11 a.m. at St. Jane Frances de Chantal, 9601 Old Georgetown Rd., Bethesda, MD. Contributions may be made in Gigliola's memory to the Alexander Tatge Finamore Fund (established in honor of her grandson) at UNC School of Law, Attn: Brandon Wright, School of Law Annex, 101 East Weaver St.,Rm. 241, Carrboro, NC 27510.