Carmela V. (Vacanti) Huey

Mass of Christian Burial for Carmela V. Huey, Norfolk, will be 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, February 2, 2022 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Reverend Gregory Carl will be the celebrant. Interment will be a Prospect Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Tuesday. February 1, 2022 with a 7:00 p.m. Vigil Service at the Home for Funerals Chapel, 708 Georgia Avenue. The Vigil Service and Mass will be livestreamed on the funeral home’s website. Home for Funerals is in charge of arrangements. 

She passed away Monday, January 24, 2022 at Faith Regional Health Services.

Carmela Louise Vacanti Huey was born March 21, 1929 in Omaha, Nebraska to Filadelpho and Maria (Conti) Vacanti.

She graduated from Omaha Technical High School on January 15, 1947. After graduation, Carmela worked as a secretary and bookkeeper. She married Lee A Huey on January 25, 1954 living in Denver, Colorado where her three children were born. In 1967, the family moved back to Omaha. Carmela divorced in 1968 and moved to Norfolk where she raised her children. She worked for Valley View Lodge and Arkfeld Mfg. in Norfolk for many years. Carmela moved to Charlotte, NC, for a time, to be with her son Patrick and his family, eventually returning to Norfolk. 

Carm was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church where she belonged to the Catholic Daughters. She was honored to be a member of the Church’s Rosary Crusade praying for others daily.

She was fond of baking cookies and mailing them to her family especially at Christmas time,  calling herself the midnight baker. Her grandchildren will fondly remember all the stories she would tell ending with the quip “It sounds better in Italian!” 

Carmela was preceded in death by her parents Filadelpho and Maria Vacanti, her sisters and brothers-in-law Constance and Gerald Arkfeld, Rose Marie and Ernest Endsworth and Phyllis and Earl Chase, her sons, Patrick James Huey and Kevin Glenn Huey and her granddaughter, Ravona Colleen Mason.

Carmela is survived by her daughter and son-in-law Linda and Gordy Baumann of Norfolk, her step-son and daughter-in-law Jim and Cindy Huey of Minnesota and her step-daughter and son -in-law Gretchen and Peter (Huey) Scott of Canada, her grandchildren, great grandchildren and nieces and nephews. 

Memorials will be given to St. Jude Children’s Hospital in memory of Carmela

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