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Carmella Kay Valenti Polizzi Miller |
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June 19, 1906 5:30 am ~ July 24,
2005 6:45 pm
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Kay, Joe and Clare
Valenti
1910 |
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Kay, Joe Clare
Valenti |
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Kay's first communion |
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Kay
1918 |
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Kay holding Jenny
Ray, Joe and Charlie in front |
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3456 East 116 St
Jasper and Kay lived with
Raimondo and
Giovanina here |
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Kay |
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Kay with her father
Calogero Valenti
1955 |
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Kay's mother
Nana Valenti
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Kay's sister
Clare Severino |
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Kay's brother
Joe Valenti |
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Kay |
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Kay's Beauty Shoppe
Cleveland Heights, Ohio |
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In front
Angie, Kay, Jasper and Alfred
in back, Charlie, Ray and Joe |
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1565 Rydalmount Road
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
where Kay and Jasper raised their family |
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Kay and Jasper |
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Rydalmount Block meeting
1945 |
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Jasper and Kay |
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Kay and Jasper
in Miami, Florida |
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Kay's cooking tips from
the Cleveland News, Wednesday July 9, 1947. |
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Kay |
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Angie on the violin and
Kay playing her piano.
Music was one of her favorite pastimes.
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Jasper and Kay's
children and grandchildren
1952 |
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Kay playing with some of
her grandchildren. |
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Kay the beauty queen.
1958 |
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Betty Ann |
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Kay and Howard Miller |
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Howard Miller and Kay
March 1962 |
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Kay all gussied up and looking real purdy |
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Kay and Howard in Kay's car |
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This was Angelo Veneziano, who was
Jasper's great uncle visiting Kay and Howard. |
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Kay - always a caretaker and volunteer |
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Kay and her three-wheeler
May, 1969 |
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Kay and Bernie
June 1976 |
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Valentines wishes from Bernie
June, 1979 |
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Kay not only participated but lead many
senior citizen exercise groups. From the Newcomer's
Guide, October 21, 1979. |
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Kay and some of her friends making baby
dolls for the Bayshore Condo Spring Bazaar. |
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Kay liked to dance |
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... and dance |
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Kay gets recognition for the 1939
Kitchenmaid Mixer that made all those delicious sausage
twists. |
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Click on this to see Kay's garden tips
that she wrote for the Writers' Roundtable Workshop at
the Senior Friendship Center. |
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Kay's 90th birthday |
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Speeches have played varying roles in
American history. Some were ignored at the time they
were given, some gained importance as the years passed,
others had a tremendous effect at the time they were
delivered, and yet others are barely remembered today.
Dad and I have prepared a speech for Grandma Kay in
celebration of her 90th birthday party and we like to
let you know we used a little help from dear ol’ Abraham
Lincoln ... see
the speech |
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Thank you bookmarker form Kay's 90th
birthday. |
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Kay and her family on her 90th birthday
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Kay and her grandchildren,
great grand children,
and great great grand children |
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Joe, Angie, Kay and Charlie at Kay's 90th
Birthday. |
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Grandson Steve Gregory, great great
grand daughter Danielle Rhein and great great grand son
Vincent Griffith share the same birthday,with Kay,
June 19th |
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Kay's 94th birthday
June 19, 2000 |
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Kay's 95th birthday
June 19, 2001 |
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Kay's 99th birthday with some of her
Florida family.
June 19, 2005. |
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Kay's 99th birthday
Cuzncindy and Gene |
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Some of the family that didn't make it to
any of Kay's recent birthdays. |
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Brittany Kromie, Alexis Gray, Danielle
Rhein, Brendan Donlevy and Marissa Gray. |
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Tori, Jessie, Nick, Fran and family. |
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Craig, Sarah and Katla Vincent-Polizzi |
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Jerry, Marge, Charlie and Roy Polizzi. |
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Danny Augustine on his boat with his cat
Raymond |
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Kay's youngest great great grand
daughter
Isabella Pritchard |
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Tim Gergel and Kay
July 1991 |
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Dawn
Donlevy and sister Denise Gray. |
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Vince, Kathy, Kay, Nicole and Colleen
with BettyAnn |
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Grand-daughter Kathy
Griffith with Kay. Grandma had
so much of an impact on my life. When my mom was weak,
Grandma was there to take care of us. She gave lots of
advice -- good advice. Sometimes I dismissed it, being
arrogantly youthful, but later would reflect on it and
realize how right she was. There are big things and
little things that I reflect on daily about Grandma.
Little things, like cracking an egg! I remember working
with her in the kitchen at Willougby Hills and I was
tentatively trying (unsuccessfully) to crack an egg on
the side of the mixing bowl. She grabbed the egg from me
and said, "Don't be afraid to crack that egg!" And she
whacked it hard on the bowl. So consequently, everytime
I crack an egg, I think of her!
And that was Grandma. Strong, decisive -- a teacher. She
was one of the strongest people I've ever known.
I often think about her when I play the piano too. While
I took several years of formal lessons, it was Grandma
who taught me the shortcuts. I use those shortcuts today
quite successfully. Music was certainly always a big
part of Grandma's life -- I can still hear her singing
and playing the organ. And music is certainly a tie that
binds many in our family. So many of us inherited her
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Grand-daughter Carol Vaccarriello
I will be remembering Grandma on Sunday
at 9:00 a.m. as I am preparing for my Sunday sermon. I
used to send her copies of my sermons and she would
critique them for me.
That's a great memory. |
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