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Family Remembers Victim Of Heart Disease, Raises Funds In Her Honor

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Elizabeth Fisher

This LevittownNow.com multi-part reporting on women and heart disease has been supported in part by funding from In The Know Club members. 

Rosemarie Mignoni-Szczucki and her sister, Carol Mignoni-Ferguson, assist customers in the family’s jewelry store.
Credit: Elizabeth Fisher/LevittownNow.com

February is American Heart Month that includes Valentine’s Day and Go Red for women traditions. It is also a bittersweet time for the family of Ann Mundy, who died in 2014 at the age of 69 of heart disease. Her death devastated her family while igniting a new mission  to raise money for research into cardiovascular disease.

That mission takes the form on an annual dinner that, for the past five years, has raised a total of $50,000, which goes to the American Heart Association. This year’s dinner will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 27 At Cesare’s Restaurant at 1407 Radcliffe Street in Bristol Borough.

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Tickets are $50, and are still available at Mignoni Jewelry, 200 Mill Street, also in Bristol.

“We do this in memory of Ann,” said Carol Mignoni Ferguson, Ann’s sister. “We decided that it would be a good idea to just continue raising funds for heart research; it’s such a prevalent condition.”

Mignoni Jewelry opened its doors on Mill Street about 70 years ago by Carolyn and Carmen Mignoni. Two of their daughters, Mignoni-Ferguson and Rosemarie Mignoni-Szczucki still run the business, located at Mill and Cedar streets in the borough.

Ann Mundy with her husband John. Ann, who died in 2014 from heart disease, is remembered by a fundraising dinner, held every year to benefit the American Heart Association.
Credit: Elizabeth Fisher/LevittownNow.com
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Ann, who was married to John Mundy, joined the business after retiring from teaching school, attended jewelry school to become a certified gemologist, and joined her sisters in the business, Mignoni-Ferguson said.

“Ann was the oldest sibling, and she was always our guide,” her sisters recalled.

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They remembered Ann as a talented businesswoman and a scholar of history and politics.

“She loved history and politics. She had an incredible memory for facts. But her greatest joy was her granddaughter, Rachel Ann Loffler, born at 15 ounces, and today is a beautiful young lady,” Mignoni-Szczucki said.

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Elizabeth Fisher

Elizabeth Fisher

Elizabeth Fisher served as a reporter with the Bucks County Courier Times from 1977 to 2008. She covered various beats, including Crime, Government, Religion, Business, and Feature stories. Elizabeth was sent to Rome in 1988 to cover the beatification of Mother (now Saint) Katharine Drexel by Pope John Paul II. She was also sent to Rome to cover the Drexel canonization in 2000. From 2008 to 2018, she freelanced for the Bucks County Courier Times. In addition, she contributed to Bristol Pilot.