Concetta Russo (1934–2016), Nonna, married Salvatore by proxy and crossed to Melbourne alone in 1958 to meet a husband she had last seen at nineteen. She ran the house, the garden and the sugo.
Work
A clothing factory in Coburg, then the garden, which she treated as a job.
Family
Four children. Every February she bottled the year's tomatoes with all of them.