BOCA RATON — Angela Madden, who with her husband, Thomas J. Madden, created and operated TransMedia Group, one of America’s leading international public relations firms, died Feb. 24 at her home in Boca Raton after a 10-year battle with breast cancer. She was 78.
The firm she and her husband launched in 1981 in New York City today serves clients worldwide from its offices in Boca Raton and Rome, Italy, the country where she was born and raised.
TransMedia’s clients over the years have included some of the world’s largest organizations, from AT&T to the city of New York, for which it conducted an award-winning campaign promoting fair housing.
Ms. Madden is the daughter of Santa LaSorsa, who was born in the U.S., and Michael LoBasso, a decorated military officer in the Italian army who was a prominent Italian artist and sculptor.
Ms. Madden came to the U.S. as a teenager and attended schools in Manhattan, where she was a singer who appeared on stages in such places as Carnegie Hall. The Maddens were married on Dec. 10, 1964, at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in New York City.
Angela Madden is survived by her husband and two daughters, Adrienne Mazzone and Angela Madden; two sons, Andrew Madden and John Fiume Jr., and five grandchildren, Jake Mazzone, Sirena Mazzone, John and Brett Madden and Tristan Fiume.
Visitation was held Feb. 26 at Glick Family Funeral Home, Boca Raton. She will be buried in the family plot in New York.
— Obituary submitted by the family
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