Brian Baumgartner

She was born in 1947 in Scranton.

She graduated from Maywood University with a master's in counseling and education, and she was a teacher at North Pocono School District.

Then in 1971, she married Neil Fasula, and he ran the family grocery business.

She left teaching to raise her two sons, but when her husband Neil passed away in 1997, she took over the grocery business.

Garrity's is the largest family-owned supermarket business in northeastern Pennsylvania, and it is one of the largest in the country that is owned by a mom.

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Perhaps you'd like to click on the button titled, Who is Aunt Mary?

Who is Aunt Mary?

Well, Aunt Mary is Joyce's mother-in-law, Mary Fasula.

And long before her son, Neil, started the grocery business...

Mary would make all of her family recipes and sell them to local businesses and restaurants in Scranton.

She made pasta, sauces, meatballs, and Italian cookies.

When people asked who made this, the shop owners would say, oh, that's our Aunt Mary.

Well, the name stuck.

And when her son started his grocery business, she started a brand called Aunt Mary's Kitchen.

And they sold her stuff at the grocery store.

And I'll have you know, I looked it up.

They still sell her Italian cookies in the bakery.

And they still sell her meatballs and stuffing in the deli.