Mike & Irene Preolitti with their grandchildren

Mike Preolitti, who lives in Traction Park just past the Mount Calvary Cemetery in Monongah and is married to Irene Fazio Preolitti celebrated his birthday today.

Wrote cousin Irene (her mother, Frances Olesky Fazio, and my father, John W. Olesky, Sr. were siblings; as was Helen Olesky Kerekes):

“God has blessed us with these wonderful grandchildren and we are very grateful. Wishing my husband a very happy birthday and years of much good health and happiness! Love You Big Guy!”

Irene is a daughter of Frances and Renzy Fazio, who ran Fazio’s Grocery at the bottom of Jackson Street hill in Monongah.

Irene’s siblings are Mary Chris Fazio Ramsey, who lives on Pike Street in Monongah with husband Tom Ramsey in the home once owned by Helen and Steve Kerekes; David Fazio, married to Cora; Steve Fazio, widower of Nancy; and Mary Chris Fazio Ramsey, married to Tom.

Renzy Fazio had 12 siblings: John Fazio, the lanky pitcher for Monongah High School who passed away in 2006, survived by widow Dolores Stancheck; Jeanette Fazio DiBiase, who died in 2003; Albert Fazio of New York; Mary Virginia Fazio Pasquale and husband Joseph of Fairmont; the late Nick, James, Joseph and Michael; and the Fazio sisters Edith DeCarlo, Elizabeth Domico, Angline Prozzillo and Carmella DePond. Mary Virginia died in 2006.

Happy birthday, cousin-in-law Mike!