Kellyanne Conway Has Local Roots

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Kellyanne Conway became Donald J. Trump's Campaign Manager Aug. 17, 2016
She grew up as Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, the only child in a household full of strong, working women.

Along with with her mom, she lived with unmarried aunts Rita and Marie DiNatale and grandmother Antoinette DiNatale, in a brick ranch home just off the White Horse Pike in the working class Atco section of Waterford Township in Camden County.

She attended St. Joseph's High School, just 10 miles east down the White Horse Pike in Hammonton. Both communities are a mix of farms and suburbs.

During Conway's childhood, her aunt Rita ran Country Farm Custard on the pike, next to Mama D's and the Country Farm Market, run by another aunt Angela Coia and her husband, Ed.

Conway always had a hardworking and competitive streak, probably influenced by living with so many businesswomen, said Coia, who still runs Mama D’s catering and homemade pasta business.

"She just had to be first,” said Coia.  “She’d stay up until 1 a.m. studying, sleep, then get up again at 3 a.m. to study some more.”

As a high school junior, she was drawn to politics when President Ronald Reagan came to Hammonton, where he spoke to a crowd estimated at 25,000 downtown, said Rita DiNatale.

When just a teen she was the fastest berry packer at Indian Brand Farms in Hammonton. And that was in the days before automation, said owner and family friend Bill DiMeo, when packers moved berries from wooden field pallets to cardboard containers by hand.

 The 1985 valedictorian at St. Joseph’s, she now sits on the high school's Board of Trustees. She owns a vacation home in Ventnor.

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