Future generations should know what our mother Clelia went through growing up during WWII in a small town in southern Italy. She married at 17 and migrated from Italy, alone and pregnant at 18, to start a new life in America.

Though challenged by a new culture and language and hardships that might have defeated a less strong person, she did the best she could to assimilate into the American way of life. Now a venerable old woman at age 92, she is the Matriarch of our big, Italian American family!