Virginia, the second daughter of Giovanni “John” Serafini, who immigrated
from the Trentino-Alto Adige region in northern Italy as a teen-ager to work in
the Appalachian coal mines, and Costanza Parisi, who was born in Detroit in
1905 to immigrant parents from the same area. The family moved to Force,
Pennsylvania, when Angie was very young. It was still the Great Depression
and she often told stories of gathering lumps of coal from the side of the
railroad tracks that had fallen off passing trains, or how her family hunted (out
of season) to put food on the table while she kept the game warden at bay.
She attended school in nearby Weedville and worked in several factory jobs,
including Speer Carbon and Stackpole Carbon in St. Mary’s, another place
that made golf balls and at the Rockwell meterworks. She lived for a while in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she worked at Duquesne University doing
social research into urban life. But it was on a trip home, visiting her sister
Betty, when she met her future husband, Frederick P. Geitner Jr., at a
firemen's dance in Kersey in 1959. They married on April 15, 1961 and moved
to Philadelphia, where she worked for a time at Robert Bruce clothing
company until she had her first child, Janet, followed by two boys, Paul and
David. She was a devoted wife and mother who wasn’t crazy about fancy
cooking but would bake her own bread. She sent all three of her children to
dance classes so they could follow her love for dancing. She never lost her
curiosity about the wider world, reading two newspapers a day even after a
stroke in 2013 limited her vision. She is survived by her husband (since
passed on Nov. 25, 2018) and sons as well as six grandchildren: Chad, Brian
and Jason Sheets and Kyla, Tyler and McKenzie Geitner. She also is survived
by three sisters: Irene Quinn, Lucille Farcus and Dolly Auman. In lieu of
flowers contributions may be made in Angie's memory to the National Stroke
Association www.stroke.org.
Click this link to see Frederick Geitner obituary:
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/dayton-oh/frederick-geitner-8069428
Click this link to see Janet Sheets obituary:
https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/dayton-oh/janet-sheets-7361681
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