Source: http://www.theunion.com/article/20101211/OBITUARIES/101219994#

Lou Lunardi

Lou Lunardi, former long-time resident of Grass Valley (as Lou Kennedy), and beloved wife of former California Assemblyman and State Senator Paul J. Lunardi, of Roseville, California, passed away of natural causes on December 7, 2010. She was 87.

She was born Lou M. Jones on February 18, 1923 in Columbia, Tennessee. During World War II, she volunteered to build B-24s for the war effort in Michigan. After the war, she settled in Grass Valley. As Mrs. Richard Kennedy, she was active locally, serving eight years on the Grass Valley School Board- the first woman elected to that office. She served as County Personnel Commissioner, Girl Scout leader, and was affiliated with the Phi Epsilon Phi Sorority.

As a Nevada County Democratic Central Committee member, she managed several winning legislative campaigns for Lunardi.

She first met Paul when she ran his Senate campaign in Nevada County in 1960. Lou and Paul later married in 1973, bringing together daughters Nancy Lunardi-Seibert, Carol Kennedy, Jan Kennedy Bedrosian, Sally (Spillers) Podesta Bean, and son Skip Kennedy; sons-in-law Tod Bedrosian, Bob Bean and Dan Podesta; daughters in- law Roxanne Moger; grandchildren Stephen and Kevin Cline, Katherine and Sean Bedrosian, Holli Jones, Christopher and Nickolaus Lunardi-Seibert, Meghan Kennedy, and Dan (Tony), Paul, and Joseph Podesta; and 15 great-grandchildren.

Services will be private. The family requests that remembrances be given to the World Wildlife Fund.