PD Obituaries

February 14, 2010

Atty. Carolyn M. Piccotti

February 3, 2010

Attorney Carolyn Maria Piccotti, 52, of Ellicott City, MD, and formerly of Old Forge, died February 3, 2010, in the Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C., following a brave battle with breast cancer. She is survived by her husband, Ryan Simmons, to whom she was wed on September 10, 2008 near Edinburgh, Scotland.

Born in Old Forge, she was a daughter of Marion Isidori Piccotti, of Old Forge, and the late John H. Piccotti. She was a 1975 graduate of Old Forge High School, where she belonged to the National Honor Society. She furthered her education and became a cum laude graduate of Dickinson College and the Dickinson School of Law. She also studied abroad at the University of Bologna and the Magdalene College at Oxford University. Carolyn had a keen legal mind, which she used with unyielding success, first as a law clerk with Judge William J. Nealon, in Scranton, then later as an immigration lawyer at the U.S. Department of Justice and, since 2008, with the Department of Homeland Security. She resided in Alexandria, VA, for a length of time until her marriage. She was a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and was a devout practitioner of the Roman Catholic faith.

She was also preceded in death by an uncle, Peter Piccotti.

Also surviving are three sisters, Maureen Sangiorgio and husband, Jim, Macungie; Mary Ellen Piccotti, Old Forge, and Linda Piccotti, Old Forge; aunts and an uncle, including Elia Piccotti, and Frank and Victoria Isidori, all of Old Forge; and cousins.

The funeral was Feb. 10 from the Ferri Funeral Home, Old Forge, with a Mass of Christian Burial in Prince of Peace Parish at St. Mary’s Church, Old Forge. Entombment Cathedral Cemetery Mausoleum, Scranton.

Memorials may be directed to Beagle Rescue of Southern Maryland, P.O. Box 983, Waldorf, MD 20604, or www.beaglemaryland.org . To leave an online condolence, visit www.ferrifuneralhome.com .

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