Cora Fazio visiting family in Seattle

Cora Fazio, a 1973 Farmington High graduate who had the good sense to marry a Monongah High guy, Dave Fazio, Class of 1968, is in Seattle, Washington visiting relatives on her side of the family, including her grandfather.

Explains Cora:

“I am in Seattle visiting my uncle Wayne Martin and his family. Some I haven't seen for 30 years or longer. My sister Cathy Basagic and I gave this trip to our father for Father's Day because he always said he wanted to go there and never had. And at 83 what was he was waiting on.”

Cora runs Fazio ElderCare in Stoneylonesome, which grew from 3 residents in 1995 to close to a score nowadays. Cora has extra qualifications to run a residence for senior citizens: She’s a 1995 Nursing School graduate.

Dave is a 1998 Fairmont State graduate.

They celebrated their 40^th wedding anniversary with a February cruise to Cozumel, Mexico; Belize, Honduras; and Grand Cayman.

Their children are C.J. and Mary Beth and the late Tony Fazio.

Dave’s siblings 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; and Steve Fazio, Class of 1975, whose wife, Nancy, is deceased.

 

They are the children of the late Frances and Renzy Fazio, both Class of 1937, who owned Fazio Grocery at the bottom of Jackson Street hill at the Thomas Street intersection.

 

Frances was the sister of John W. Olesky Sr., who was the father of John Olesky, Jr., Class of 1950, who publishes this Monongah High Alumni blog. Helen was Frances and John’s sister.

Cora hopes someday to go to Poland with Dave. Their relatives came from there. Dave’s grandfather, and mine, was Martin Olesky, who lived on Walnut Street and Pike Street with wife Mary Peremba Olesky. Martin was one of five children born in Mogilno, Poland.

Dave descended from Martin through his mother, Frances Olesky Fazio, who was married to Renzy Fazio, Class of 1937; me through Frances’ brother and my father, John W. Olesky, Sr.

Dave’s siblings 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.; and Steve Fazio, Class of 1975, whose wife, Nancy, is deceased.

 

Frances and Renzy Fazio owned Fazio Grocery at the bottom of Jackson Street hill at the Thomas Street intersection.