Played basketball for St Mary’s.

At age 85 started to have some slight dementia


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Wikitree
16
Cambria Street

1950
1951
Myers
Katherine
A.
Bruscia
1923
2009
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Myers-8420

This is what Don Bruscia read at the church.

"First of all I'd like to thank everyone for all your kind words about mom. I know she wouldn't have wanted us to be sad for her because I know that she's up there somewhere dancing with dad. Mom loved having her family and friends around her, and she had a comic's timing for the perfect "zinger" at just the right time. So when you joined our circle of family and friends, you needed to be able to take a joke! And I'm sure that that has carried on to some of her children and grandchildren. So I'd like to propose a toast to mom; To a life well lived, and a woman well loved". CHEERS MOM !!

By Ann Bruscia read at church

When I think about mom, love, warmth and selflessness immediately come to mind. Our mom was devoted to her family. She always wanted to have a big family and we could see on a daily basis that she truly enjoyed being a wife and mother and she excelled at it!!

There are so many things that mom did well.
She was a great baker and cook—we had something different every day and always ate as a family, enjoying her food and each other. And anyone who was lucky enough to taste her apple pie- knows it was the best around.

She could knit beautiful sweaters, starting as early as high school and earning the reputation with the nuns as a talented "crafter". She lovingly made afghans for all her children and grandchild making sure they chose their favorite colors and she gave them out to other special people in her life.

Mom also was an accomplished seamstress. If we couldn’t afford the latest fashion she always found the time, sometimes late at night when little ones were tucked away, to create outfits for us.

Her love is forever woven into the fabric of our lives.

But there is more—our talented mom could also yield a hammer and a paint brush- doing all of the indoor painting by herself and even when her physical body was slowing down, she offered to help me paint my house, just this past summer.

And she was an excellent money manager—with 6 kids, a mother-in-law, a small house and not a lot of money she managed to do all of the things I mentioned and she did them well, without complaint and always putting her family before her own needs.

But even with a full house, she always had room for more. She made everyone feel welcome- her motto was “the more the merrier” and she meant it. There was always room at her table and miraculously enough food.

She loved people and especially enjoyed it when we all gathered at her house, we didn’t need an occasion. She was happiest when we were together and there were always laughs, lots of them. She never got tired of hearing the same old stories over and over again and she was a master of the one- liners, something that we have learned well. And she was always the last to leave a party!

Our mom’s life was filled with blessings.

She was blessed with a loving husband whom she cherished. They had 50 wonderful years together and she was forever grateful for that. As her memory faded, she never forgot dad, speaking of him often as she recalled the little wink he gave her every time he passed her pew as he carried the money basket at mass, reminiscing about what a great dancer he was and how much fun they had together, even if it was just sitting quietly holding hands, enjoying their backyard.

Mom was blessed with the large family she wanted and took such pleasure watching it grow as grandchildren and great grandchildren came along. And as the years and Alzheimer’s started to take her memory, she made notes of what everyone was doing so she could tell her friends at lunch.

Mom was blessed with great friends and relatives who took her out for lunch and dinner. Nothing stopped her from going out and we would cancel Drs appointments so she could go. It was something that kept her connected to the world that was slowly slipping away.

Mom was blessed with wonderful, caring neighbors who helped her stay in the home she loved, invited her to their parties and most of all looked out for her.

We are forever grateful to all of the many people who have touched our mother’s life and we know she was too!!

And finally, mom was blessed with a long, happy, healthy life, never spending a night in a hospital except for childbirth.

And we, her children, are eternally thankful for having the best mother and grandmother anyone could ask for.