Resident Feature
Team Tulskie: A Family Unit in Newtown Square Ed and Patti Tulskie
Ed and Patti both grew up in Springfield but were from different parishes. They met when they both attended Cardinal O’Hara High School. They dated for several years but would go their separate ways after Ed’s second year of college. Their paths would cross again years later. “We were always friends, kept in touch,” Patti explained.
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Patti received her undergraduate at West Chester University, then graduated from Widener University with a master’s degree in elementary education and a reading specialist certificate. After attending Lehigh University, Ed went into financial services. He always had a passion for acting, though, and decided to move to New York City to pursue his goal. He had some success in a commercial and a music video, including a lead role in Bon Jovi’s first-ever music video, Silent Night. He eventually returned to the Newtown Square area and to his career in the financial services industry. When the two reconnected, it was like no time had passed. Within a matter of months, Ed and Patti eloped to Elkton, Maryland. “It was the kind of thing where we had so much history, and once we were back together we knew we were going to spend our lives together,” Ed said. The marriage was then blessed by Ed’s cousin, Fr. Bob Chapman at St. Anastasia Church, where Patti had been a parishioner for some time. This gave the entire family and a few close friends the chance to celebrate the marriage. In the coming years, they would have three children: Grace, Rose (nicknamed Muffy by Grace before birth), and Jack. When Patti and Ed got married, she was living in a Newtown Square apartment. Soon thereafter, they moved to their first house in Newtown Square. As their family grew to five, they looked for their next home, Ed asked Patti where she would like to live. Ed said her reply was, “We can live wherever you want, as long as it’s in Newtown Square.” “I had been living here since 1986 and loved it,” Patti raved. “This was home to me, simple as that.” Patti is employed by the Chester County Intermediate Unit as a Reading Specialist. Ed has his own food ingredients distribution company in Newtown Square.
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Newtown Square Friends & Neighbors
August 2019
