Frances (“Fran”) Tomasco, who worked at Penn for 32 years, most of those years as a business administrator in the Vet School, died May 4. She was 79.

Mrs. Tomasco joined Penn in 1972 as a typist in the School of Dental Medicine. From 1973 to 1978, she served as an administrator in the School of Architecture. In 1979, she joined the Vet School as a business administrator in the department of pathobiology. She received several promotions over the years, all in pathobiology, until she retired in 2003. She stayed on as a temp in that same department until 2004.

Mrs. Tomasco is survived by her husband, Thomas Tomasco, Sr.; children, Thomas (Virginia) and Lynn Ann Tomasco Roca (Cesar) ; grandchildren, Stephanie, Thomas Tomasco III, Cesar Roca IV, Anna Podobas, and Eric Nicholas Roca; and great-grandson, Cesar Gunther Roca V. Also survived by family: Joseph and Betty Santilla, Charlie (Joseph) and Connie Santilla Venuto, Richard and Marlene Santilla DeBella; six nephews, one niece, six grandnephews, and seven grandnieces.

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