Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Piccotti, Carolyn Maria February 3, 2010
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Ionia Sentinel-Standard - Tues. Feb. 16, 2010


Attorney Carloyn Maria Piccotti, 52, of Ellicot City, Md., wife of Ryan 
Simmons, formerly of Saranac, died Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, in the Georgetown 
University Hospital, Washington, D.C., following a brave battle with breast 
cancer. She and Ryan wed on Sept. 10, 2008, in Borthwick Castle near Edinburgh, 
Scotland.

Born in Old Forge, Pa., daughter of Marion Isidori Piccotti, of Old Forge and 
the late John H. Piccotti, Carolyn 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 Law School in Carlisle, Pa. She also studied abroad at the University 
of Bologna, Italy, and the Magdalen College at Oxford University, England. 
Carolyn, a member of the PA Bar Association, had a keen legal mind which she 
used with unyielding success first as a federal law clerk, in Scranton, next 
briefly as a private litigator, then later as an immigration lawyer at the U.S. 
Department of Justice and, since 2008, with the Department of Homeland Security.

She was an avid animal lover, especially of beagles and horses. She adored her 
first beagle “Doogie” who passed away in 2005, and her current beagle “Beau”. 
Carolyn was a loving wife, daughter, sister, niece and cousin who loved her 
family dearly. Her Italian heritage was something that she was so very proud 
of. She was a voracious reader who possessed a wealth of knowledge of the arts, 
history and law. Carolyn was a devout practitioner of the Roman Catholic faith, 
which was very important to her until the end. 

Also surviving are three sisters, Marueen Sangiorgio, and husband Jim, of 
Macungie, Pa., Mary Ellen and Linda Piccotti of Old Forge; aunts and uncle and 
cousins.

The funeral was held Feb. 10, 2010, at the Victor M. Ferri Funeral Home, Old 
Forge with mass of Christian Burial at the Prince of Peace Parish at St. Mary’s 
Church, Old Forge. Entombment followed at 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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