Alice Tolwinski Graziani passes away

Monongah native Alice Tolwinski Graziani passed away Sunday, Sept. 20.

She was the last surviving sibling in her family.

Alice once lived in the Detroit area at the same time as Bob Kasper, Class of 1950, my friend since we began first grade at Sts. Peter and Paul School in Monongah. Today Bob has homes in South Lyon and Presque Isle, Michigan. His Presque Isle summer home is on Grand Lake and not far from Alpena.

The Kaspers and Tolwinskis lived on Willow Road in Frogtown, which is off U.S. 19 to the left when you're driving toward Worthington and beyond St. Barbara's Nursing Home, where Alice resided till her passing.

Bob's father, Lawrence, and Alice's dad, William, were good friends.

Bob is back at his South Lyon, Michigan home after attending the wedding of his grand-nephew (through Bob's sister, Evelyn Kasper Boggess, who still lives in the Frogtown home of her childhood with her husband, Okey Boggess). He’ll be closing his Grand Lake summer home on Presque Isle, Michigan in early October.

 

Other Tolwinski siblings, all deceased, were Genevieve Tolwinski Niezgoda, Loretta Tolwinski DePaul, Anna Mae Tolwinski Graziano and Carolyn Tolwinski Latocha.

Alice’s obituary:

Alice Graziani
(October 20, 1935 - September 20, 2015)

Alice L. Graziani, 79, of Fairmont passed away Sunday Sept. 20, 2015 at St. Barbara’s Nursing Home, In Monongah. She was born Oct. 20, 1935 in Monongah, WV, daughter of the late William and Mary Tolwinski.

She was the devoted wife of the late John B. Graziani, and was the last surviving member of her immediate family. Alice was a strong Catholic by faith and a member of St. Peter the Fisherman Catholic Church in Fairmont. She was a homemaker known to many as the “Nut Roll Lady”.

Alice was a loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She will be greatly missed by those she leaves behind: her children, John A. Graziani and wife Cindy, Bill McBee, Mariann Rannenberg and Kathy Hunsaker. She is also survived by granddaughters, Teressa Oliverio and Christy Oliverio, which she raised as her own; grandchildren, Brandon Graziani, Cierra Graziani, Ryan Rannenbert, Joshua McBee and wife Shannon, Sylvia McBee, David McBee and wife Amanda, Donnie Koval, Steve Koval, Edmund Hunsaker; great grandchildren, Nathan Oliverio, Alice “Ally” Oliverio, Connor McBee, and Madelyn McBee, and Marshall McBee; several nieces, nephews, and cousins. 

In addition to her parents and husband she was preceded in death by her daughter, Sandy Koval; sisters, Genevieve Niezgoda (Edward), Loretta DePaul (Ralph), Carolyn Latocha (Andrew) and Anna Mae Graziano (Richard); and one great grandson, Avery McBee.

The family will receive friends at Domico Funeral Home, 414 Gaston Ave. in Fairmont from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday and 9 a.m. to noon Wednesday. The funeral service will be held at noon Wednesday Sept. 23, in the funeral home with Deacon David Lester and Pastor Carl E. Radcliff officiating. Interment will follow at Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Fairmont. Memorial donations may be made in Alice’s name to St. Barbara’s Memorial Nursing Home: 134 St. Barbara’s Road, Monongah, WV 26554. Condolences may be sent online to the family at www.domicofh.com .