Nancy Police

Nancy Police of Arnold, Pennsylvania, died peacefully on Easter Sunday April 9, 2023, after a period of declining health. She was 90.

Nancy was born Nunziatta Bucci on December 7, 1932, in Gamberale – a country village nestled between the rocky hills of the Abruzzo region in Italy. She spent the first 14 years of her life there, but become a refugee during the latter years of WWII due to displacement caused by German occupation. With incredible strength and determination, Nancy’s family moved throughout the region in search of safety before emigrating from Italy to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Nancy moved to the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh with her mother, Mary, to join her father, Guy Bucci, and several extended family members that had secured jobs in Western Pennsylvania over the past generation.

Enrolling in Oakland Catholic, Nancy quickly caught up with her fellow sophomores, learned English, and earned her high school diploma – thanks in part, to a few helpful nuns and classmates.
She attended Beauty School in downtown Pittsburgh and obtained a position at a prestigious beauty salon in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. She enjoyed helping to care for her two younger brothers, Dr. Guy Bucci (deceased) and Dr. John Bucci of the North Hills.

She was introduced to Raymond Police, and they married in Saint Paul Cathedral in Oakland. With their total love for one another serving as the foundation, they built their home in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, on a hillside overlooking the Monongahela Valley with the help of her father and uncle, who were stonemasons. The house included an in-house hair salon, which she operated for 40 years, and a foyer that Nancy spoke about fondly years after the house had been sold. Here they raised their family, backed by a community of tight-knit neighbors.
She is survived by her two children, Ray (Stephanie) Police and Denise (David) Lucas, four grandchildren, Anthony Police, Christina (Aaron) Brooks, Daniel Lucas, and Laura Police, three great-grandchildren, Emma, Sam and Jack Brooks, and several nieces and nephews including AnnMarie (Michael) DuPont and Dr. (little) Guy Bucci, who referred to her fondly as Aunt Nancy.

She lived her final years with her son Ray in Arnold – doting on her great-grandbabies, crafting homemade spaghetti and red sauce, and keeping the house in immaculate condition. Never leaving a dish undone, Nancy will be remembered for her fierce love of family, feisty attitude, devotion to the Catholic church, and her faith in Jesus Christ her Lord and Savior.

A mass will be held in her honor at Holy Family Parish-Saint John the Baptist Church, 444 St. John Street, Plum Boro on Tuesday April 18 at 10 AM followed by a service at Our Lady of Hope Cemetery, Tarentum, Pennsylvania, where she will be laid to rest beside her husband. The family wishes memorial contributions be made to

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Dc Psalm 95
1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and extol him with music and song.
3 For the Lord is the great God,
the great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
5 The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.
6 Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the Lord our Maker;
7 for he is our God
and we are the people of his pasture,
the flock under his care.