Apple didn’t fall far from Fazio family tree

Nice writeup in the Fairmont Times about Rhyan Cochran, granddaughter of Monongah High graduates Renzy Fazio and Frances Olesky Fazio and daughter of Ann Marie Preolitti Cochran Parsons and the late Larry Alan Cochran and stepdaughter of Jeff Parsons.

Rhyan came by her athletic abilities honestly. The Fazio family has been outstanding athletes at Monongah High for decades. And Renzy Fazio took me to school on White Day golf course years ago by shooting a 30.

Sisters Rhyan & Renzy Cochran

Rhyan’s sister, Renzy Cochran, is named after her famous grandfather, who ran the Jackson Street grocery with wife Frances, who was the sister of Helen Olesky Kerekes and my father, John W. Olesky Sr.

The late Letta Louise Cochran was Rhyan and Renzy (Ryan’s sister) Cochran’s other grandmother.

Renzy and Frances’ children are Irene Fazio Preolitti, Class of 1966, who lives in Traction Park, Monongah, with husband Mike Preolitti, Class of 1962; Mary Chris Fazio Ramsey, Class of 1969, married to Tom Ramsey and living on Pike Street in Monongah in the home once owned by Helen and Steve Kerekes, sister of Frances Fazio and John W. Olesky, Sr.; Steve Fazio, Class of 1975, whose wife, Nancy, is deceased; and David Fazio, Class of 1968, married to 1973 Farmington grad Cora, operator of Fazio's Eldercare in Stoney Lonesome.

Dave and Cora’s children are C.J. and Mary Beth and the late Tony Fazio.

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, who died in 2006, 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.

The late John Fazio’s son, also John Fazio, is a Marietta, Ohio College professor.