JANE ELLEN BAESZLER: Staten Island
Tapestry
Jane
Ellen Baeszler grew up in the shadow of the
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in the Randall Manor
neighborhood in Staten Island. She went to Catholic
schools and earned an associate's degree in business from
the College of Staten Island. She never left Randall
Manor, even after she got a job as a municipal bond
broker at Cantor Fitzgerald.
Her mother, Rita, lived close by and said Ms. Baeszler
was attentive to her nephew, Patrick, 10, and nieces,
Annie-Laurie, 13, and Molly, 12, who were the perfect age
to share secrets with an aunt that they would not tell
their mother.
Ms. Baeszler, 43, relaxed by doing needlepoint. She
had perfected it. She gave a needlepoint tapestry of a
horse's head to a childhood friend, who is an equestrian.
She made a cocoa pot for an aunt who collects them. She
liked Americana. She made a tapestry of a Harper's Bazaar
cover, with a woman in a long coat with a fur collar
reminiscent of the Roaring 20's. On Sept. 10, she
attended a class to work on a tapestry of a teapot for
her sister-in-law's 40th birthday on Oct. 10.
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