Visitation for Theresa R. Conway will be held Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 9 and 10, at Duda-Ruck Funeral Home, 7922 Wise Avenue, from 3 to 5 p.m and 7 to 9 p.m. on both days. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated Friday, Jan. 11, at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Hope Roman Catholic Church, 1727 Lynch Road, followed by interment at St. Stanislaus Cemetery.
The former Wise Avenue resident and dance teacher died Jan. 5 from complications of pneumonia. She was 86 and lived in Joppatowne.
{reg}Known as “Miss Tessie” to her students, she first taught Polish dancing at the Polish National Alliance in Baltimore. She then opened Tessie’s Dance Studio on Eastern Avenue, where she taught tap, ballet, pointe, jazz and ballroom dancing. She later taught at a studio in her Wise Avenue home, which became home of the Tessetts, before moving to a larger studio on Wise Avenue. After moving to Harford County, she taught dancing for several more years at the Joppa-Magnolia Recreation Center.
“Miss Tessie was known for her large smile and even bigger heart,” a loved one recalled. “Many of her former students she loved as her own children and grandchildren.”
Timothy Conway, her husband of 40 years, daughter Darlene Chance, three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren survive her.
Chester Anyszek Sr., her first husband, and son Chester Anyszek preceded her in death.{/reg}
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