Hazel Mae Leonardelli

Hazel Mae Leonardelli passed away May 2, 2009 in Pueblo. Hazel was born Dec 6, 1922 in Lubbock, Texas. She went to school in Oklahoma and attended college in New York. After college she spent six years as a missionary in Peru, South America. While there, she married Oscar Trisollini. They had one child, Leo Kim Trisollini. After Oscar’s death, she returned to Texas and worked in private language schools teaching both English and Spanish. She spent 13 years as a home office insurance underwriter in both Dallas and Austin, Texas. She married Ed Leonardelli in 1971. For more thatn 30 years she had been in direct sales with Mary Kay Cosmetics, serving as a director for many years in Pueblo, Colorado. She was preceded in death by both husbands, Oscar and Ed. Mrs. Leonardelli is survived by her son, Leo (Marie) Trisollini , of Camden, Ark., grandson Geoffrey Trisollini, of Camden, Ark., granddaughter Danilia Trisollini Carson, of Conway, Ark., her sister, Ruth Lord, of Las Cruces, NM., daughter-in-law Thelma (Jacob) Zacharias, of Pueblo, and eight step grandchildren. At her request, there will be no memorial service following cremation. The family requests that donations to the Alzheimer’s Association be made in lieu of flowers.