Family, faith, and food are what guided Jeanette Mancini Mitchell, a pillar of Sonoma County’s Italian-American community, all her life. She died at home in Santa Rosa on Sunday at age 86. Mancini Mitchell served as one of the founding members of the North Bay Italian Cultural Foundation and its second president, serving for 28 years from 1985 until she retired in 2013.
It was then that her health started to take a turn. “That had been her life,” said daughter Maria Crane, 57. Crane, of Santa Rosa, recalled for years watching her mother dress up as “La Befana,” a good witch who, in Italian tradition, brings gifts to children on the eve of the Epiphany, similar to Santa Claus.
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