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Downriver loses famed artist Death of Patty Izzo is a shock to many friends, fans Paula Neuman Wyandotte Warrior
Patricia Izzo-Kulczycki of Wyandotte touched countless lives through her art, her kindness and her charismatic ability to inspire people and make them feel loved and special. She died peacefully surrounded by family members on Friday, Feb. 12, of throat cancer. Her death came as a shock to her many friends, who called her Patty, and to the art world, which knew her as Patricia Izzo. She was diagnosed about 18 months ago, but kept her illness very quiet, not wanting a fuss or a lot of questions about it. “She just wanted it to be very private,” said her husband Stan Kulczycki. “A lot of her family members didn’t even know about it.” Ms. Izzo had chemotherapy treatments initially, and then more intense chemotherapy over the last few months. But until the last 10 days or so before her death, she didn’t let her illness impact her life very much, Kulczycki said. “She was so incredibly strong,” he said. “She really
was. She was very kind, always for the underdog. She always looked for the good in people.” Ms. Izzo, daughter of Patsy James Izzo and Stella Mlostek, grew up with her three brothers — Jamie, Thomas and Michael — on Oakdale Street in Southgate and sometimes talked about how blessed she was to have had a wonderful childhood. She had many passions in her full and active life, and family was right at the top of that list. Her niece Rachel Louria said, “She never, ever missed an opportunity to get our family together and remind us that family is the most important thing in the world. She made everyone feel beautiful and special.” Ms. Izzo was proud to carry on the traditions of her parents and grandparents on both the Italian and Polish sides of her background, and passed that love of family traditions to her daughter Stasia Jade Izzo Convery of Southgate and granddaughter Lily Patricia Convery. A graduate of Schafer High School in Southgate, Ms. Izzo attended Northern Michigan University, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees
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in fine art painting and photography. At NMU in 1968, she began the political activism that she continued throughout her life, protesting the Vietnam War and for race equality and women’s rights. In January 2017, Ms. Izzo took part in the Women’s March in Lansing. “The message was the same as it has been over and over again,” she wrote after the march. “In all its forms, in all its loose ends, in all its colors, in all its bruised and glorious ways, the message was equality regardless of gender, race, religion or creed.” Her friend and fellow artist Georgette HeronWilloughby of Canadian Lakes, formerly of Huron SEE IZZO, Page 3
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