Adrienne Saddington (Albanese) Service Information

Adrienne Laura Albanese Saddington, a retired educator and loving wife, mother, daughter and sister, died Saturday, January 15, 2022, at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital of pneumonia and complications of scleroderma-related interstitial lung disease. A native of Philadelphia and a lifelong resident of its Northeast neighborhoods, she was 66 years old.
            Adrienne was beloved by family, friends and colleagues for her limitless generosity, her unflinching loyalty, and her unending desire to help where she could. She never said no: If you needed a meal, she provided; if you needed someone to listen, she was there. She was hilarious when she wanted to be, and had stamina few could match. She was a sender of birthday cards, a hostess of family gatherings, and the person who remembered significant occasions and noted them accordingly.

            She was born on September 26, 1955, to Robert and Florence Fellows Albanese and grew up in the city’s Oxford Circle neighborhood in a loving, noisy, mostly Italian American family of seven — five adults and two children, Adrienne and a girl cousin just four months older than she. In 1967, she moved with her parents to a house just three blocks away; in 1969, her brother, Dominic Albanese, was born.

            Adrienne attended St. Martin of Tours Roman Catholic elementary school and Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls before earning a bachelor’s degree at Holy Family College and a master’s at Temple University. Her teaching career began in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia system, at St. George’s School in Port Richmond then Presentation BVM School in Cheltenham. She taught lower-school science at the Haverford School at the Main Line for many years before joining the faculty at several Philadelphia public schools, including John H. Taggert Elementary School in South Philadelphia and Francis Hopkinson Elementary School in Juniata. She retired in 2011 from J. Hampton Moore Elementary School in Northeast Philadelphia, where she taught fifth grade for 12 years.
            Her tastes were eclectic: rom-coms, classic rock, QVC, and pasta. She loved cats and helped support efforts to feed and neuter a colony that lived behind her house in Bustleton.
            Adrienne is survived by her husband, Robert Saddington; her daughter, Paige Saddington; her parents, her brother, and her sister-cousin, Joanne McLaughlin, as well as numerous aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews, and great-nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her maternal grandparents, Mae and James Fellows; her paternal grandmother, Giuseppina Albanese, and her aunt and uncle Stewart and Catherine McLaughlin.
            Relatives and friends are invited to call Tuesday from 10am to 12 at the Galzerano Funeral Home, 9304 Old Bustleton Avenue, Phila PA 19115.  Funeral Service will follow 12.  Interment will take place Wednesday, January 26^th at Washington Crossing National Cemetery precisely at 10am.  Those who wish to attend should be at the cemetery office no later that 9:45am..

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Adrienne’s name to the Scleroderma Research Foundation at www.srfcure.org.
 

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