Carmelina Giannotti DeNuzzo Iannone, 90, formerly of Mix Ave., Hamden, died at Connecticut Hospice on Sept. 19, 2012, after a long illness. She was the widow of Ferdinand DeNuzzo.
Carmel was born in New Haven, Sept. 11, 1922, the daughter of the late Nicholas and Archangela Ciaburri Giannotti and earned a BS Degree in accounting. She owned the Starlite Realty Co for 30 years, was office manager for Arthur's and Woolco department stores and was a well known psychic.
She is the mother of Debbie Schaeffer and her husband Todd of PA and the late Carol Raccio, sister of Nicholas Giannotti of FL. a son in law Frank Raccio of Hamden, a sister in law Mary Giannotti of West Haven and a grandson Scott Schaeffer. She was predeceased by a brother, Dominic Giannotti.
Her funeral will leave Monday at 10:30 a.m. from the Peter H. Torello & Son Funeral Home, 1022 Dixwell Ave., Hamden and a Mass of Christian Burial will be said at the Church of the Ascension at 11 a.m. Interment will be in St. Lawrence Cemetery. Friends may call from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday morning at the funeral home.
