All friends and family from Syracuse and the area can gather here to share some memories and stories of Gella. You know you’ve got them, don’t be shy. Angela was no saint, she was much better than that, so lets give her her due. Maybe there’s wireless access wherever she is now and she’ll read your posts!
Mom Grosso, Angela, and Madrina Aida
happy birthday beautiful lady! moving to NYC at the end of august, wish you were there more than anything – <3, kate
Aunt Gella,
Thinking of you with lots of love.
think of your beauty and spirit always Aunt Gela <3
Missing you aunt gella .. Holding you close .. Today is just another day
happy day aunt gela – or so ive been told it wasnt always ….will be down in the city soon to celebrate – my surrogate aunts have been treating and teaching me well :)
really wishing you were here. it’s funny, as i learn more my list of questions still continues to grow longer and longer. solution: wonder and wander.
love you
ive tried to follow in your footsteps as ive worked to find my own path. think of you every single day
I grew up at my grandparents house right across the street from Angela. Although we did lose touch after our childhoods, I have such great memories of playing at her house and in her garage together. Even though I hadn’t seen her in years, the news of her passing was extremely sad.
This is unreal to me. I always thought I would get in touch with Angela someday after being friends with her for 2 years at a communtiy college in Troy NY. We were great friends (although I had a huge crush on her) we could talk and laugh all night long.
A college picture of us and other friends has been hanging in my computer room for many years now. Since the internet came about I would every once in awhile type her name in to see if I could find her e-mail. Today this is what I find, the end of my hope to
meet up again. I don’t know what it was about Angela, for me to be thinking about her for almost 30 years now shows what a special
person she is. My heart goes out to all of you who have known and loved her for much longer than I have.
Mark Wright
I’ve been spending some time here, on Angela’s website in an effort, I guess, to have her near me again. I do so miss my, our Angelina. Sadness has a grasp of me as it has since I first discovered that she had passed on and I will never have the chance to see her again.
I will never be able to do that fun wordplay thing in various forms that we were so good at. The banter would go on and on, so long ago, yet the fun it was stays fresh in my mind.
I know that I can now, but will not, stop hoping I run into her in NYC, or stop waiting for the day that I hear from her again. I see or think I see, or hope I see her at the grocery store or walking down the street. She had such a way of engaging with people, she loved people, people loved her.
Learning more about her in these last several days I feel even more blessed that we were in each others lives for the time that we were. I’ve learned that she touched many others lives as she touched mine in so many different ways.
I now know just how deeply I have kept her in my heart throughout all these years because of the pain I feel when I acknowledge her absence from this life. Her loss is our loss, all of ours, and a great loss it is. Angela could never have known how much and how many people loved and cared for her, how many lives she had touched or the love she’d inspired, or how much she would be truly missed. I know she couldn’t possibly have known. To have known Angela is to have loved Angela. And most who had that pleasure & honor adored her. I do have some comfort knowing that I can and will always have and hold her deep in my heart, where she has been since I first met her.
Jim Felice
July 17, 2009
Aunt Gela,
Been thinkin’ about you a lot lately. Just wanted you to know…
Love You.
I am still in shock after hearing the news of Angela’s passing. I have known Angela since Kindergarten at Courtview Elementary. We went all through school together. She threw me a surprise birthday party for my 14th birthday. I spent a lot of time at her home with her family. We shared clothes, secrets, listened to Elton John and skipped school in order to have breakfast at Denny’s. I think of her often since I left Syracuse to live in Old Forge. She was so much fun to be around and I will miss her. Her family is in my thoughts and prayers. Diane Kellogg Heroux
I KNEW ANGELA FROM HIGH SCHOOL & READ TODAY, WITH GREAT SHOCK ABOUT HER PASSING. WHAT A LOVELY & SWEET PERSON SHE WAS; UNIQUE FOR SURE; SHE ALWAYS HAD SUCH GRACE & ALWAYS A SMILE UPON HER FACE. MAY GOD LOVE, BLESS & TAKE CARE OF ANGELA FOR ALL OF ETERNITY & MAY THE HEAVENLY ANGELS SURROUND HER SWEET SOUL.
Maybe some of you don’t know how she came to be called Gella. As a young child learning to speak, our son David (now 28) found “Aunt Angela” too long and/or difficult, I presume, or maybe just too repetitive – so he began calling her Aunt Gella. And as so many names, from the mouths of children, it stayed with her. I think she liked it.