Patricia Petulla |
| Posted 2008-07-02 by Pat Wilson |
| Darien News Review, Darien, CT. Friday, November 3, 2000 Patricia "Patty" Petulla died Oct. 10, 2000 at her home in Scottsdale, Arizona, after a courageous two-year battle with non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Ms. Petulla was born in San Jose, Calif., Nov. 17, 1950. The daughter of Robert GRIFFIN and the late Patricia GILE, she graduated from Camden High School and San Jose State University. Her professional life was very diverse. She worked for Charter Flight Services, as a tour guide accompanying groups of visitors to Europe many times in the late 1970s. Her travels took her to such places as the USSR, Turkey and Yugoslavia, places very few Americans visited at the time. She worked in San Francisco as an accounting manager for MRI Inc. and in Los Altos, Calif. as an accounting manager for the Owen Company. Patty moved to Westport in 1985 and worked as controller for FTC and Co., a real estate development company in Westport. After the birth of their daughter Nicole, in 1988, Ms. Petulla started her own business providing accounting support and services to several businesses in Westport. In 1993, she helped start the CoffeeTree Ltd. in Stamford where she worked as corporate controller. Ms. Petulla was a member of Assumption Parish in Westport and was manager for several WSA soccer teams. She was an active member of several committees at King's Highway and Bedford Middle schools. In addition to her husband David, Ms. Petulla is survived by her son Sam and daughter Nicole both of Scottsdale, Ariz.; a brother Robert GRIFFIN of Melbourne, FLorida, and a sister Sue COLTON of San Carlos, Calif. A memorial mass was held at St. Patrick's Church in Scottsdale, Ariz. on Oct. 13, 2000. Memorial donations may be sent to the Cure for Lymphoma Foundation, 215 Lexington Ave., N.Y., 10016. |
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