Lottie T. Moran | Nurse, 82

Lottie Twardziak Moran, 82, of Westbrook Park, a nurse and mother of 11, died of heart failure Monday at home.

Mrs. Moran grew up in a family of 11 children in Johnstown, Pa. During World War II, she repaired radios for the military. Later, she graduated from the former Women's Homeopathic Hospital Nursing School in Philadelphia. She met John P. Moran Jr. when he came to visit his mother in the hospital, and they married in 1949. In 1951, they bought a three-bedroom rowhouse in Delaware County, where they raised 11 children.

She made pots of homemade soup for those in need, her daughter Suzanne Riordan said, and always made room for lonely people at her holiday table. One Christmas, Riordan said, she delivered 40 shirts to men in a ward at Haverford State Hospital.

She made Easter outfits and Halloween costumes for her children, her daughter said, and designed costumes for her husband and sons to wear in a Mummers comic division. Recently, her favorite pastime was making crafts and goodie bags for her 37 grandchildren.

For six years, Mrs. Moran cared for her husband, who was ill and bedridden. He died in 2003.

In addition to her daughter, and grandchildren, Mrs. Moran is survived by daughters Kathleen Chinici, Annette Eisenhuth, Patricia Moran-Thomas, Jean Klick, Peg Choiski, and Maureen Stanko; sons Daniel, Thomas, and Robert; two sisters; a brother; and six great-grandchildren. A son, John 3d, died in 1990.

A Funeral Mass will be said at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Holy Cross Church, 651 E. Springfield Rd., Springfield. Friends may call at O'Leary Funeral Home, 640 E. Springfield Rd., from 9 to 9:30 a.m. tomorrow and from 6 to 9 p.m. today. Burial will be in SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Marple Township.