Antoinette Seda

Today we gather, with love in our hearts, to honor and remember the life of our dear grandmother Antoinette Seda, also known to us as Nanu or Nana. On Sunday, August 17, 2025 in the town of Englewood Colorado, Nanu went to be with the Lord, as well as her parents, Josephine and Paul Savasta, her sister Joan Scopa, her husband Angelo Seda, her children, Dawn Newman and Mary and Wayne Baron and her granddaughter in law, Ariann Baron. Besides being reunited in Heaven with all of her family and friends, Nanu will also be reunited with the dogs she has lovingly taken care of over the years. Lucky, Lady, Kilo and Jazz. Her passing from this life to the next was from natural causes and extremely peaceful. She had received the last rites from a Catholic priest the day before.

When Nanu was ushered to Heaven on Angels wings, she was surrounded by three of her grandchildren, Peter, Clifford and Paul. For the 36 hours proceeding her leaving this world, she was surrounded by flowers, her favorite music and one of her three present grandchildren holding her hand at all times. It was 36 hours that felt like it lasted a year. Wanting her to move on and at the same time not wanting to let her go. Once they knew she was in Heaven, it was very hard to leave her. A single red rose was taken from the array of flowers and laid across her chest and at that point she looked like a beautiful sleeping angel. With the heaviest of hearts and after several more hours, they departed.

Nanu was born in Brooklyn New York, November 30, 1927. As a young girl she went to a trade school to become a dressmaker and eventually worked for one of the top dressmakers in the world, Mainbocher. After that she had a distinguished career as an order taker for Merrill Lynch, working on the famous New York Stock Exchange where the CEO of the company actually proposed marriage to her. While flattered, she declined.

Nanu moved to Centennial Colorado in 1990 to take in her grandson, Peter. She did this after her daughter Dawn went to be with the Lord after a year long battle with cancer. Dawn actually beat the cancer but couldn’t withstand the toll it took. While Dawn was in Sloan-Kettering hospital, in New York, for about nine months, Nanu slept at the hospital, with her, six nights a week.

After moving to Centennial, Nanu spent her days taking care of her husband Angelo and her grandson‘s Peter and Paul who lived with her. She was always cooking a big Italian meal or baking. She hosted every holiday at her house with the entire family who would gather for a beautiful time filled with amazing food, family and funny stories about the past. Nanu also took great pride in her house, spending a lot of her time tending the landscaping but she also loved to play bingo with her friends and family. She adored old movies and reading novels.

In a lot of ways Nanu was your typical Italian grandmother that could’ve been taken out of any movie. She was loving but tough, always cooking lasagna and baked ziti and sauce, always worried about everybody else, had a pristine white couch that was always covered and when it wasn’t, don’t even think about trying to sit on it.

Nanu was an extremely charitable woman, and donated on an automatic basis to so many charities I couldn’t even name them. She was an extremely tough woman who weathered the storm of this world for over 97 years. She did this her way, all the time and up to the very end.

Nanu will always be in our hearts until the day we join her. In Jesus name, Amen.

A visitation for Antoinette will be held Saturday, August 23, 2025 from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM at Olinger Hampden Mortuary & Cemetery, 8600 East Hampden Ave, Denver, CO 80231. A funeral service will follow at 10:00 AM. Antoinette will be laid to rest also on Saturday, August 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM at Olinger Hampden Cemetery, 8600 E Hampden Ave, Denver, CO 80231.