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Sue Bruno, widow of mob boss, dies at 94.
Byline: Kitty Caparella
Jul. 18--The late mob boss Angelo Bruno and his wife, Sue, had a lifelong love affair, flirting with each other until the day he died.
On the morning of March 21, 1980, before the crime boss was shotgunned to death in a car in front of their South Philadelphia home, his wife told him: "You look so, so handsome in that blue business suit," Jean Bruno Puppo recalled her mother telling her.
"I'm so glad I said that," Sue Bruno confided to her daughter. "It was the last time I saw him."
Yesterday was the last time that members of the Bruno family saw Sue Bruno, described by attorney and family friend Carmen Nasuti as a "very, very strong personality and strong matriarch."
Early yesterday, Sue Bruno died of natural causes. She was 94.
Born Assunta "Sue" Maranca, in Lanciana, in the Italian province of Abruzzo, she was 5 when she and her family …
