Margaret "Peggy" Giamanco

It is with great sadness our gram, Margaret (Peggy) Giamanco (nee Bonner) has left this worldly plane on December 29th, 2024. Peggy was born on October 17th, 1935, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania to Charles and Margaret Bonner. She had 5 siblings: Ann, Charles, Leo, Clifford, and George. The family left the big city and moved to rural New Jersey around 1937, first settling in Turnerville, then Blackwood Terrace. Her parents decided that the east coast was not where they wanted to continue living and decided to move to California in 1943. They sold/donated all household goods, packed up a house trailer towed with a 1937 Hudson Terreplane and headed for the West Coast during WWII (that's another story!) They moved to Seal Beach before settling in Cypress CA. Peggy graduated from Anaheim Union High School around 1953. 

Peggy went on to marry Tony Giamanco in 1955 and had 3 children: Kenneth (Christine) Giamanco, Joy (Joseph) Bayer and James Giamanco. They lived and raised their family in Brooklyn New York near her husband's family. She was a wonderful mom and homemaker for many years and loved working and visiting Manhattan often. She was widowed in 1982 and shortly after moved to Florida to help her son Kenny and daughter Joy during tough times and was very hands on in the help with her grandchildren. She resided in Florida for over 30 years, and was very much the socialite of the retirement communities she lived in. She loved to meet with friends, shop, and hold social gatherings- she always made the best coffee! She had an amazing sense of style and loved to dress up any chance she got. 

She is survived by her granddaughters Tonianne (Jay) Walsh, Alyssa (Brandon) Bayer, Andrea (Mat) Rushton, Julia (Matt) Piszczynski (Giamanco), and Ashley Mesaros, as well as her great grandchildren Grayson, Jason, Connor, and Brady Piszczynski, Ava and Owen Rushton, and Clover Bayer. She is preceded in death by her beloved daughter (Joy Bayer) and son (Kenny Giamanco), and her husband Anthony Giamanco. She was especially adored by her Daughter-in-Law Christine Giamanco. Gram resided for many years at St. Andrew's Towers in Coral Springs and was so loved by all the residents there- she was so sad to leave due to health issues but always kept in touch with all the many friends she made there. Gram spent her last years in Savannah Georgia with her granddaughter Tonianne and her husband Jay, who were honored to be able to care for her in her later years as she once cared for Tonianne when she was a baby. Despite health issues, she never lost the spark and feisty nature that she always had, and she kept that same demeanor and attitude until the very end.