Carmela Florine (Dilettoso) Nutter passed away on September 13, 2016 at Dodge Park in Worcester, her home for the last 2 ½ years. Carm was born April 12, 1923 in Thomas WV, the 2nd child of the late Salvatore & Mary (Totedo) Dilettoso. Her parents owned The Roma Restaurant in Thomas and Carm worked tirelessly to help them make The Roma very successful. In first grade at Thomas Elementary School she met a boy everyone called ‘Junior’. Years later they graduated from Thomas High School together and shortly after that Carm married her 1st grade sweetheart Harry A. Nutter, Jr. on June 29, 1942. She had been training as a nurse at the beginning of WWII, but left after she married Harry and soon gave birth their first child, Mary Yvonne, on December 29, 1943, who tragically died 13 months later. After the war Carm and Harry lived in Hampton VA for 12 years where they had four more children. They moved to Longmeadow MA in 1957 where their sixth child was born. Carm was a communicant of St. Mary’s Parish since 1957 and volunteered in many ways with Open Pantry, as a member of the St. Mary’s Ladies Guild and a member of the Honor Color Guard. In addition, she was employed at Blueberry Hills Elementary School as the Assistant Librarian for close to 20 years. Carm was a woman of complete devotion to her family first and foremost, but also to all children, to her friends, to her church and to her beloved Harry who passed away on February 27, 2014. She was a gregarious, passionate, feisty, protective woman and will be missed by all who knew and loved her. She is predeceased by brothers Pat and James Dilettoso, and survived by sisters Rose Evans and Virginia DePollo and her husband John, her daughter & son-in-law Suzanne & Jerry Morin of Eastham MA, daughter & son-in-law Mary Louise & Philip Jackson of Mattapoisett MA, son & daughter-in-law Harry III & Ellen of Springfield MA, son & daughter-in-law Samuel & Carol of Northboro MA and son Jim of Northampton MA. Carm also leaves eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. A service wash eld at St. Mary’s in Longmeadow MA on Saturday September 24 at 10 a.m.. In lieu of flowers please send donations to the American Heart Association or the Longmeadow Adult Center. Carm and Harry’s ashes will be interred together next June in Thomas WV with Mary Yvonne on what would have been their 75th wedding anniversary. Memorial messages may be left at www.oconnorbrothers.com.
