Lucia Wambach, an Ontario resident whose nursing career and emergency squad service included helping deliver babies, died Nov. 9 at 92.
Known as Lucy, she worked with Dr. Norman Loomis in Ontario and later at Rochester General Hospital before retiring in 1987, according to her obituary in the Times of Wayne County.
Born May 1, 1934, her parents were Domenic and Rose Molino. She grew up helping her siblings on the family’s farm and completed her education at Ontario High School and St. Mary’s School of Nursing before becoming a registered nurse.
Beyond her paid nursing work, Wambach volunteered with the Ontario Volunteer Emergency Squad. Her service there included delivering several babies.
She and Robert Wambach married Sept. 13, 1958. They spent 52 years together before his death in 2011, making their home in Ontario, bringing up four children and later helping care for their grandchildren.
Her surviving children are Karen Merritt and her husband, Lance; Teresa Stockschlaeder and her husband, Jim; Margaret Rubin and her husband, Robert; and Robert Wambach Jr. and his wife, Lynn. She also leaves six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Other survivors include her brother, Carmon Molino, and his wife, Marjorie; sisters Virginia Molino and Bette Ferrill; and extended family, including in-laws, nieces, nephews and cousins.
In addition to her husband and parents, relatives who died before her include brothers Marion, Anthony and Joseph Molino; sister Carmella Molino; and granddaughter Devyn Merritt Anderson.
Her family expressed appreciation for the caregivers who supported her and for relatives and friends who visited during her declining health, including visitors who traveled from other states. They remembered her enjoyment of laughter and making others laugh.
Remembering others from the community
The family plans a private celebration in 2027.
Memorial contributions instead of flowers may go to the Ontario Food Pantry, P.O. Box 4, Ontario, NY 14519, or to uveal melanoma research at Jefferson’s Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center. The obituary directs online donors to Jefferson.edu/SupportUvealMelanoma to designate a tribute gift in her name.
Donors mailing checks should make them payable to Jefferson and identify Lucia Wambach in the memorial designation. The mailing address is Jefferson Office of Institutional Advancement, Department 825434, P.O. Box 71331, Philadelphia, PA 19176-1331.
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