NameMarguerite / Margherita Celeste Moruzzi
Birth1 Sep 1905, Tramonti Di Sotto - Campone
Death1996, Pueblo, Colorado
EducationUniversity Of Denver
Spouses
Birth11 Feb 1899, Illinois, USA
Death15 May 1968, Colorado
Marriage1930-1940, Colorado
Notes for Marguerite / Margherita Celeste Moruzzi
Boarding at a house in Denver in the 1930 Census. Also listed with her parents, but noted as absent.
GAIL PITTS
The Pueblo Chieftain - March 19, 1997
“A small section of the Arkansas River bottoms has multiplied in riches for Pueblo.
Twenty-five acres of fertile land - cradled in the curve of Colorado 227 as it swings off Santa Fe Drive headed north - provided a choice truck farm living for Clyde and Marguerite Green.
Mrs. Green's passion for flowers provided a riot of color around their home and in the fields, a pretty view for passing drivers.
And since her death at age 90 last year, bequests from the settlement of her estate have given three Pueblo organizations more than $350,000.
"She specified exactly what she wanted," said Rosemary Moruzzi, the estate's personal representative who is married to Mrs. Green's nephew, John.
The most recently announced gift was more than $120,000 to the Pueblo Kiwanis Foundation for its orthodontia and scholarship projects.
"She loved children and always said that in order to excel in school and a career, a person needed to have physical needs attended to as well," Mrs. Moruzzi said.
Mrs. Green had faith in the Kiwanis Foundation's reputation "for helping so many young people in our area in a very caring manner."
So her gift was no surprise to the family. Nor were similar bequests to El Pueblo Boys' & Girls' Ranch and the Pueblo Library District surprising.
Education was very important to the Italian-born woman who immigrated with her family to the United States as a young girl.
Her parents, John and Santa Moruzzi, initially settled in Connecticut but quickly moved to Colorado where they farmed on the St. Charles Mesa.
They saw that Marguerite attended college in Denver, “which was not the ordinary thing for a girl in those days," Mrs. Moruzzi noted.
She became a teacher for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in reservation schools in Arizona before she and her husband returned to Pueblo in the 1930s to purchase the farm in Blende.
She also worked at then-Pueblo Army Depot until she was in her 60s and after Clyde died in 1968, she continued to farm their land.
"She was on the tractor until 1989," Mrs. Moruzzi said.”