Jeannette M. Scacco OBITUARY
Jeannette M. Scacco, 81, of Nanticoke passed away Tuesday morning, July 18, 2017, at Birchwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Nanticoke, where she was a patient for two weeks. She had been ill for the past year.
Born December 18, 1935, in Blawnox, Allegheny County, she was a daughter of the late Louis S. and Rita O’Donnell Ward. She was a graduate of Har-Brack High School, Natrona Heights. She resided in Nanticoke since the mid-1970s and previously Pittsburgh for a short time and the State College area for many years.
She and her late husband, Vincent Scacco, owned and operated Kelly’s Kard Korner on Main Street in Nanticoke prior to retiring.
Jeannette was an avid reader. She will especially be remembered as an adoring and proud grandmother to her four grandchildren.
Her husband, Vince, passed away on December 5, 1986.
Surviving are children, Kelly Dinsmore and husband, George, State College; Thomas Nardozzo and wife, Betty Jo, Hayward, CA; Daniel Nardozzo and wife, Cathy, State College; and Marty Nardozzo, State College; grandchildren, Paige Nardozzo and fiancé, Chris Gingrich, Lindsey Dinsmore and husband, Dan Hopper, and Andrew and Chris Dinsmore; brothers, Louis S. Ward III, Benton; Gary Ward, New Zealand; and Leslie James Ward, Sewickley, PA; a sister, Nancy Lee Battiste, Penn Hills, PA; several nieces and nephews; as well as the Firman family of Kingston for whom she was a nanny.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Tuesday, July 25, at 11 a.m. in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 806 11th Street, Altoona, with the Rev. Carl Vacek as celebrant.
Interment will follow in Calvary Cemetery, Altoona.
Viewing and visitation will be Tuesday from 10 a.m. until the time of Mass at the church.
Arrangements are in the care of Davis-Dinelli Funeral Home, 170…
