Jamie Ann Guida
September 29, 1961 ~ January 3, 2024
Born in:
Steubenville, Ohio
Resided in:
Weirton, West Virginia
Jamie Ann Guida – an amazing mother, daughter, sister, niece, and friend to many – left this world on January 3, 2024 with her family by her side at only 62 years of age.
Born on September 29, 1961 to J.J. and Rita (Confalone) Guida, Jamie grew up in Weirton, W.V. with her three siblings, Dewey, Rosemary, and Dan, with many aunts, uncles and cousins nearby. In recent years, she also spent much time in New York City visiting her daughter Lindsay.
Jamie’s early life was a time that she looked back on with great joy, and made friendships and memories that lasted her entire life. She started in family businesses early, serving sandwiches (and causing trouble) with her siblings at their parents’ restaurant Happy Hero, which later became Happy’s on Main Street in Weirton. After graduating from Weir High School in 1979, she became a respiratory therapist before having her daughter and joining her father as a real estate agent at J.J. Guida Airport Realty. She carried on and grew the family business by her father’s side as a broker, consistently rated the #1 real estate agency in Weirton, surrounded by a team of great and supportive agents.
Jamie’s life centered around both her family and her chosen family – the dear friends she made throughout her life. Her magnetic energy shone brightly in any room, and she loved to share music, wine, lots of laughs, and good food with those she loved. She was as loving as she was strong-willed; you couldn’t find someone with a bigger heart or a more wonderful sense of humor. Jamie’s reach was wide – she brought joy to so many and had a gift of inspiring people to be their authentic selves and channel their strength. This was a massive gift she gave to many during the past year as she fought through her illness and encouraged her loved ones to be strong along with her.
She will be remembered for her fiery passion for life and for all of the love she shared with her family and friends. She truly loved each of them and if you knew her, you knew it. She was incredibly selfless, thoughtful, and completely casual about helping people in often extraordinary ways. You would also know that she was the biggest animal lover you could find – she never met a dog that she didn’t love and who didn’t love her back – and her mini schnauzers Layla and Sasha brought her immense joy.
Though her family and friends are profoundly saddened by such a great loss, Jamie encouraged them to be strong, live life to the fullest, and to always cheers to her when having a good bottle of wine (she would encourage everyone reading this to do the same). She will be remembered daily by the people she touched, and her spirit will live on through all she gave to those she loved.
Jamie is survived by her daughter Lindsay and her fiancé Chris, both of whom she loved fiercely and was loved fiercely by. Her siblings were her rocks and she was theirs – she was deeply admired and loved by her brothers Dewey and Danny Guida, sister Rosemary Guida, and sister-in-law Laura Guida, all of whom she loved so very much. She loved her nieces Kelli McIntyre and Megan Guida, and nephews J.J. Guida and Dan Guida Jr., and her adoring Aunt Linda McDonald, Uncle Dewey Guida, Aunt Karen Guida, and Aunt Shirley Guida. She is also survived by many cousins who were also dear friends, as well as countless friends, colleagues, and people she met and knew through her work in real estate.
She is preceded in death by her parents, J.J. and Rita Guida, Aunt Constance Griffo, Uncle Peter “Kang” Griffo, Uncle Tony Guida, Aunt Mary Mazzone, and Uncle Tony Mazzone.
Jamie’s life and legacy will be celebrated during visitation on Saturday, January 13, 2024 from 2:30-5:30 p.m. at Greco-Hertnick Funeral Home, 3219 Main Street, Weirton, WV, with a brief service at 5:30 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Hancock County Animal Shelter or a local animal rescue in your area.
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Services
Visitation: January 13, 2024 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Greco-Hertnick Funeral Home
3219 Main Street
Weirton, WV 26062
(304) 748-3219
https://www.grecohertnick.com
Liturgy of the Word Service: January 13, 2024 5:30 pm
Greco-Hertnick Funeral Home
3219 Main Street
Weirton, WV 26062
(304) 748-3219
https://www.grecohertnick.com
Charities
The family greatly appreciates donations made to these charities in Jamie Ann Guida 's name.
Jamie you were a sweet kind soul loved by many. Prayers for your family at this difficult time.
Love you, Jamie. Rest Easy my friend🙏
Rest easy Jamie ..love you! Deepest condolences to the Guida family & J.J. Guida Realty group
I’ve known Jamie for many years. I’m so sorry she suffered so much. She was always so sweet & kind. She will be missed. My thoughts & prayers for the family. ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
Jamie, you will be missed by many. Your love of life was contagious. I will always remember your humor and how much you cared about Lindsay and everyone you knew. RIP my friend.
This is so surreal and I truly loved Jamie. She really fought hard and thru out the entire time she never complained. She’s earned her wings and now you have another guardian angel watching over all of you. My thoughts and prayers are with you and May God lay his precious hands over you to keep you safe and give you comfort and peace now and forever.
Love always
Sherri LaRosa
This is so surreal and I truly loved Jamie. She really fought hard and thru out the entire time she never complained. She’s earned her wings and now you have another guardian angel watching over all of you. My thoughts and prayers are with you and May God lay his precious hands over you to keep you safe and give you comfort and peace now and forever.
Love always
Sherri LaRosa
My dear cousin was a strong willed person who did everything with great passion. Jamie had no reservations sharing how she felt on things and lived what she believed. She proudly carried on her father’s reality business maintaining the high standards JJ set. Although I’ve lived away now from my Weirton family and friends for forty years, my fond memories of growing up with my cousins have closed that distance. I will miss you Jamie and pray for your soul. I’m sure you were welcomed into paradise by my uncle JJ and my aunt Rita. Rest in peace, your battle is over.
Love, your cousin Johnny.
My sincere condolences to her family and friends. 🙏
HER LAUGH!! When she was tickled by some antic we would share, usually through a job she’d call on my business to help her with, her “ALL IN” laughter was contagious!! I will miss that most, but will never be far from it in my heart and mind!! Her bold and free spirit taught me so much about what truthfulness means in every avenue of life, especially in one’s circle of love.
If our loving Father didn’t break the mold at her birth, well He surely has at her rebirth💝
Thank you Jamie for EVERYTHING you gave to our family and so many others. May we be wise enough to carry these lessons forward!!!
We will ALWAYS love you dearly and praying for comfort, strength and peace for her family and friends. ❤️🤟🏼❤️
Remembering a life and touched so many…sincere condolences…May Jamie rest in eternal peace.
Valerie and Gary Means
Jamie, you were truly one of a kind. You were a daughter, a sister, a mother, a friend and in all those roles you fulfilled them in ways that will never be forgotten.
You may be gone from this realm but you’re still with all of us. We loved you in life, we love you in your passing – we will love you forever.
Have many fun memories from our Happy Hero days and beyond. Rita should have fired all of us for the headaches we caused her back then. Fly High Jamie!
To the family of Jamie,
My God bless and comfort you during this most difficult time. Jamie is now flying among the Angels. With deepest sympathy.
Class of 79.
I cry for the legacy this loved one leaves in death, for the ways the world has been made different by their presence, for the memories that become both more beautiful and more painful on this side of death. And I pray that the work You have accomplished in this remarkable life will grow deeper, wider, and stronger in the days to come, uninhibited by a weak opponent like death.
To the Guida Family. My condolences for your loss. I knew Jamie from elementary through high school. She was a independent and determined individual. Sending healing prayers and comfort during this tough time.
Our condolences to family and friends. You are all in our thoughts and prayers.
Bill and Paulette Galiotos
Deepest sympathies to the Guida family on the loss of Jamie. May she rest in peace
My deepest sympathy to the entire Guida family.
what a wonderful friend and business partner , you were so happy to name St. james gate after your dad and family,. we are so sad you passed, we loved and prayed for you daily, love rob and diane strobel
I am so sorry to learn this. What a lovely person. Jamie was a great hep to my dad, Don Billham who also was such a good friend with her dad. She helped us ready dad’s house for listing and sale, and was so kind always. What a good person amd heaven’s light is even brighter with her tjere. My prayers and condolences to the family.
My sincere condolences on your loss. RIP Jamie. You’ll be missed.
So terribly sorry to hear of Jamie passing. I had no idea she was not well and have been upset since hearing. The Guida’s have been lifelong friends of my prior in-laws, Sandy & Tom Gulan. I recently commented on her beautiful daughter, and Jamie always had something kind to say about my daughter, Nicole & my grandchildren. Beautiful person gone too soon. My sympathy to her entire family.
My thoughts are with the Guida family. May your best memories of Jamie bring peace and comfort to your hearts, now and always.
May the perpetual light shine upon you my dear Jame. I’m gonna miss you so much. Peace n love always
I express my deepest sympathies to the entire Guida Family over the loss of your beloved Jamie. My thoughts and prayers are with all of you.
I am so sorry. My sympathy to and prayers for Jamie’s family and friends.
We are so sorry to hear about Jamie. So many good, funny memories and the Guida family was always one of the best on so many levels. Jamie will be cherished and truly missed. May she rest in peace.
Lindsay and Guida Family, my prayers are with you and your family! Your mom was such an amazing lady ! I will cherish all the memories and fun times we had at her house 🙏
Lindsay and Guida Family, my prayers are with you and your family! Your mom was such an amazing lady ! I will cherish all the memories and fun times we had at her house 🙏
Our sympathies to Jamie’s family. She always had a smile and a kind word for everyone. As a realtor, her clients’ best interests always came first. She will be greatly missed.
To the Guida family, our condolences about Jamie. We were so sad learning this happened . Jamie was down to earth and a light that brightened everyone’s heart. Our prayers and sympathy to your family.
Chrissy & David Dalrymple