Norma Virginia Battista

Norma Virginia Battista, 91, of Weirton, a selfless, loving, and generous mother, and grandmother, passed away on Monday, August 24, 2020. Norma was born in Hamilton, OH, on November 21, 1928. She was the eighth child born to Nicola and Antoniette (Savoia) Faccuito. She lived her childhood years in Steubenville, OH, and graduated from Steubenville Catholic Central in 1947. Norma lead a simple but full life. Her husband, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren were the loves of her life. She loved cooking for her family, and when visiting, she always made sure your favorites were on the table. Holidays, weekends home from college, and out of town visits were always made special. If you wanted to talk sports, you could always include Coach Norm. She loved following high school, college, and professional sports, especially football. She always looked forward to springtime so that she could tend to her flowers all summer. She loved a good bargain and doing laundry. There was never a stain she couldn’t get out, and she never lost a sock! Cooking for her family, and sharing a meal around her table was her greatest enjoyment. If you were around her, you knew you were loved. In addition to her parents, Norma was preceded in death by her husband, Frank T. Battista, on July 3, 2008, her five brothers, James, Tony, Primo, Eugene, and Danny Faccuito; and her two sisters, Frances DiBiase and Helen Fornsaglio. She will be remembered with love and admiration by her son, Thomas (Donna) Battista, her daughters, Marie (James) Fazalare, Francine (John) Crow and Lisa (Steve) Petrovich; her ten grandchildren, Amy Miller, Joseph (Krysta) Fazalare, Frank (Celia), Adam (Danielle), and Tommie Battista, Jack, and Leah Crow, and Stephen, Nicholas and Madalyn Petrovich; 11 great-grandchildren; and sister in law, Josie Newton. Friends and family are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial that will be celebrated 1:30 PM Saturday at Saint Joseph the Worker Roman Catholic Church in Weirton. Private Entombment will follow at Saint Paul’s Cemetery Mausoleum. For her love of feeding others, it would make Norma very happy for contributions be made in her memory to the Feed For Success at Weirton Elementary School or to the Community Bread Basket, Inc. PO Box 154 3501 West Street Weirton, WV 26062 For the Feed For Success program, please make checks made payable to Change, Inc. with Feed For Success on the memo line 3428 Pennsylvania Avenue Weirton, WV 26062. Norma's family would like to send special thanks to Dr. Camille Castaldo for all the years she took care of Norma. The staff of Hope Cottage of Serra Village for their love and attention and to Valley Hospice for their care and support. Share tributes and memories at www.grecohertnick.com 304 748 3219