Angelina "Angela" Piazza Turley

Angela P. Turley of Chicago, Illinois, died of natural causes on July 12th, 2025, just shy of her 98th birthday. Angie was a mother, community activist, and social worker who grew up during the depression in a steel and coal town in the Ohio hills and ended up in flatlands of the big city, married to an internationally acclaimed architect. She traveled the world and touched people wherever she went but her home was Chicago, and she deeply loved this city of broad shoulders. She had a compassion for the poor and downtrodden, a love of hard-working people pulling themselves up, and children – so much love and delight for all children anywhere, anytime. She was a fierce defender of family, as any Sicilian mother is, and a devout Catholic, in a way that every Sicilian mother is, and she very much liked to sing, embarrassingly to her children, in a full Italian soprano voice that shook the rafters and the parishioners equally. She had an impish sense of humor, a big sweet tooth, and a strong forearm for swatting misbehaving kids.

She was born in Yorkville, Ohio to Domenico and Josephine (Moscato) Piazza, and moved to Chicago after meeting her husband Jack (John Kenneth) Turley in Florida. Angela was preceded in death by husband Jack and granddaughter Kate Mooneyham and is survived by sister Giovanna (Piazza) de la Paz and children Dominic and Rosemary Turley, Angela M. Turley, Jennifer (Turley) and Daniel Dziepak, Christopher Turley and Julie Goldstein, and Jonathan and Leslie Turley, Grandchildren Jason Turley and Beth Hein, Michael and Meghan Turley, Jessica (Turley) and Matthew Patterson, Thomas Mooneyham and Kayla Morrison, Marissa (Dziepak) and Andrew Stewart, Jaclyn Dziepak, Jeremy Turley, Rebecca Turley, Benjamin Turley, Jack Turley, Aidan Turley, and Madeleine Turley, and by Great-Grandchildren Katelan, Payton, Mylo, Margot, Elliott, and Quinn.

Visitation will be 3pm to 8pm, Friday August 1st, 2025 at Drake and Sons, 5303 N. Western Ave, Chicago, IL. Mass will be at 10am on Saturday August 2nd, 2025 at St. Mary of the Lake, 4220 N Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL. Interment is family only.

In lieu of flowers please consider donations to the local Organization of the Northeast at www. www.onenorthside.org or the national St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital at www.stjude.org/