Maria G. Fleischmann

Maria (Lo Turco) Fleischmann

July 14, 1940 – September 13, 2025

In 1951, when Maria was 11, her parents took the family from Tripoli to Sicily and Malta then boarded a ship for New York before settling in Tucson.  

After completing High School, Maria married the love of her life in 1963, and she and Henry moved to Southern California to start their family.

Maria had various jobs through her life including; working as a secretary, a seamstress, and running a daycare business. 

She also took care of friends and family, including her father-in-law, father and husband.

She loved to cook and entertain family and friends at their home, making many courses to stuff everyone with happiness and lots of creampuffs almost every other week!

Both Maria and Henry were active in their parishes in Stanton, CA and Tucson Az., especially with the Italian Catholic Federation (ICF).

Maria learned she had colon and liver cancer the same day Henry passed away. After a major surgery to remove the cancerous blockage, she succumbed to the cancer five months later, at a nursing center in Stanton, CA. 

Maria is preceded in passing, and was met in Heaven by her beloved husband Henry, her cherished son, Mark, and her parents. 

She is survived by, and continuously loved by her son and daughter-in-law, Jim and Kim Fleischmann, her grandchildren, Megan, Grace, and Ethan, her brother, John Lo Turco, her brother and sister-in-law, Howard and Pat Fleischmann, nephews and nieces, goddaughters, godsons and the hundreds of dear friends she made during her short 85 years here. Maria will be loved and missed on this earth for decades by the lives she touched, and she no doubt is being rejoiced in Heaven for her devotion to the Lord.

 

 

For those who can make it, here are the services planned for Maria:

California:

9/20/2025 Saturday, 2 pm Viewing and rosary at 3pm at Heritage-Dilday Memorial Services

17911 Beach Blvd, Huntington Beach, CA  92647

714-842-7771 https://www.dildaybrothersfuneraldirectors.com/ (use link for livestream)

Tucson:

9/26/2025 Friday, 3-6 pm Viewing and rosary at 6pm Brings Chapel

6910 East Broadway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85710

520.355.3872  https://www.altogetherfuneral.com/funeral-cremation/arizona/tucson/brings-broadway-chapel/azbrb.html (use link for livestream)

 

9/27/2025 Saturday, 11 am Mass at St Thomas the Apostle

5150 North Valley View Road, Tucson, AZ 85718

520.577.8780  https://statucson.org

 

09/27/2025 Saturday, 12:30/1pm Celebration of life at Bottega Michelangelo Italian Restaurante, please rsvp for estimate: text 520.465.4229

420 W Magee Rd Tucson, AZ 85704

(520) 297-5775 https://www.bottegamichelangelo.com/

 

09/29/2025 Monday, 9 am Graveside service at Holy Hope Cemetery

3555 N. Oracle Road, Tucson AZ 85705

520-888-0860 https://dotcc.org/