Dec 13, 2020
YOUNGSTOWN Ms. MaryAnn Pusateri, 85, a longtime area resident, returned to God’s loving arms after passing peacefully Tuesday morning, Dec. 8, 2020, at Briarfield Manor in Austintown.
She was born in Youngstown, Nov. 24, 1935, the daughter of Dr. Samuel Pusateri and Marie Mastriana Pusateri.
Hers was a life of education and service. After attending Boardman High School and later Kent State University, where she earned a master’s in health and physical education, she taught at Cardinal Mooney High School from 1957 to 1960. She was the first girls’ physical education teacher at Mooney.
In 1960, she was called to the service of Christ and entered the Vincentian Sisters of Charity, where she remained for more than 25 years, teaching at Vincentian High School and later at Mon Valley High in Monongahela, Pa., where she also coached girls’ basketball and volleyball.