Genevieve (Genny) Tristani
Genevieve (Genny) Mathewson Tristani passed away late Wednesday night, July 16, 2003, with her loving family at her side.
Genny had a great love for cooking, oil painting and sewing. A chef for many years, she and her husband were the former owners of Ye Olde Inn Restaurant. Genny taught the food service program at the Vo-Tech School in Connellsville, and published two of her own cookbooks.
Genny was a member of St. Aloysius Church in Dunbar, belonging to the Altar and Rosary Society and The Sons of Italy Club.
Genny was born March 26, 1915, in Fayette City, Pa., the daughter of Andrew Mathewson and Mary Curran Mathewson Pickstone, both of which are deceased.
She is survived by her loving husband of 69 years, Italo (Adolph) Tristani; a son, Anthony Tristani and wife, Louise of Dunbar; brothers, Norman Pickstone and wife, MaryJane of Ohio, and Ronald Pickstone and wife, Shirley of Fairchance; sisters, Leota Bartolomucci of Uniontown, and Beatrice Horton and husband, Claude of Charleston, S.C.; sisters-in-law, Alma Pickstone and Margaret Pickstone, both of Uniontown; grandchildren, David A. Tristani and wife, Cindy of St. Petersburg, Fla., Cindy Bunting and husband, Redding, Tony Tristani Jr., and wife, Kristen and Jon Tristani, all of Dunbar, and Michele Flynn and husband, Kelly of Connellsville; great-grandchildren, Samantha and Kenzi Bunting, Tricia Kelley, Trevor and Dylan Tristani, Amber Laws, Jonathan Tristani, Conner, Ashten and Hunter Flynn, Amanda Bigam and Madison Cartwright; and great-great grandchildren, Nathan and Paige Kelley, Elizabeth Landman and Cage Laws; and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by brothers, William Mathewson and Arthur Pickstone; a grandson, Michael E. Tristani; and great-grandchildren, Michael E. Tristani Jr., and Jon R. Tristani Jr.
Friends will be received in the BURHANS-CROUSE FUNERAL HOME, 28 Connellsville St., Dunbar, Pa., on Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m., and on Sunday from 2 to 9 p.m. A Mass of Christian burial will be held on Monday at 10 a.m., in St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church, Dunbar, Pa., with the Rev. Fr. J. Edward McCullough as celebrant. Morning prayers will be said in the funeral home on Monday at 9:30 a.m. Rosary will be recited Sunday at 4 p.m., in the funeral home.