Patricia Spencer Maneri (Patty), beloved wife, mother and grandmother, passed away peacefully on April 4, 2021, at the age of 89 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Patty was born on Nov. 2, 1931, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Thomas Ray Spencer and Mary Ellen Harrington Spencer. As Patty liked to put it, she was “as welcome as a skunk at a garden party,” the sixth child of a dying mother in the middle of the Great Depression. Nonetheless, Patty was a welcome addition to her large and exceptionally loving family.
Patty met the love of her life, Carl Maneri, in high school when a matchmaking English teacher contrived to have them both working on the Parma Schaaf High School newspaper. Patty and Carl graduated from high school in 1950 and married in 1953, when Carl was a student at Case Institute of Technology. Patty and Carl moved from Cleveland to Columbus, Ohio, when Carl entered graduate school in mathematics. As Carl’s career advanced, they moved to Chicago and then to Syracuse, N.Y., before se