Our Beautiful Friend: Mary Tomaselli
UPDATE (MARCH 17, 2011)–I wrote this post on this blog almost one year ago to help bring awareness to the plight of Mary Tomaselli and the benefit planned to raise funds for her medical care. I first heard that Mary Tomaselli died on Facebook perhaps last night sometime, if so, our condolences to her family . I saw Mary one night three months ago at Wegmans and we talked about getting together. I was happy to see her. She looked great, but we never got together and how I wished we had now that she passed and like many of her friends I feel the pain and I’m sad…
Mary Tomaselli has an infectious personality someone you remember because she is a caring, warm and a compassionate soul, treating all she comes into contact with dignity and respect regardless of their ethnicity, colour, or social-class background.
If she likes you and I know she liked me, she’ll invite you to her home as she did with me and she offered the warm hospitality many experience at La Tee Da her restaurant on Allen Street in Buffalo, New York.
I met Mary before I had my daughter Corrie now twenty-three years old , so I met her in the mid-eighties when she worked at the Lexington Coop. I stayed in contact with her off and on and dropped in to see her when she owned the dry cleaning business on Allen. In fact, Mary is a business entrepreneur and has been a role model for other women in the area.
Mary has cancer specifically colon cancer a story she wrote about in her blog Marys Angels Online where she discussed the experience and the impact it’s having on her life, family, and friends.
On Sunday, April 18, 2010, from 2 PM to 6 PM there is a Benefit for Mary at Harry’s Habour Grille. Donation is $30.00. If you need further information call 716 472-2352. If you can’t make it send the donation in care of All State Insurance, 491 Delaware Avenue, 14202.
As her daughter affectionately posted a letter on the blog:
“MY MOTHER TOUCHES SO MANY PEOPLE IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS THAT I FIRMLY BELIEVE THIS IS A MESSAGE.”
Especially for Women in Buffalo, New York 