Owner of Positive Show Solutions Techologies & Convention Services
July 17, 1939 – November 9, 2021
Judy Pulizzano, 82, was the owner of two successful businesses and the mother of two daughters who loved her dearly. One of six children, she was from Plainfield, Ohio, graduated from Arlington-Green Isle High School in 1957, and studied at Aurora University in Illinois. In 1986, she found herself as a single mother of two in a small town in Wisconsin and moved to Las Vegas and founded her businesses, Convention Services and Positive Show Solutions Technologies. Her daughter, Mary, remembers how “strong and amazing” her mother was explaining that in those days, the tradeshow industry was very male-dominated but her mother “didn’t take any guff—she was a hand-shaker but if a client went back on their word, she would make them pay.”
On Judy’s Facebook page, she described herself as “retired from self employment (owned two businesses; never made any money but had a lot of fun.) Love to play cards; if there is a game, I have probably played it. On special family get-togethers, we play board games. I am the parcheesi queen. Am hooked on BeJeweled Twister currently.”
Her daughter, Stephanie, wrote, “My mom’s loss is a hole in my heart that nothing will ever fill but rather be than mourn her death I’m going to celebrate her life. Share love and laughter, drink martinis, tell “mom tales” and most of all just remember all the things that made my mom the woman she was. Secure in the knowledge that even though my mom has been gone only 28 short hours, that’s sufficient time for her to have worked her way into management and by this time tomorrow be running the whole show! I love you mom and I’ll see ya on the other side.”
She was predeceased by her parents and seven siblings and is survived by her daughters, Mary Pulizzano McMartin and Stephanie Regudon, a brother and numerous nieces and nephews.
An portion of this obituary was originally published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Dec. 3, 2021. To share a memory or condolences, visit obituaries.reviewjournal.com/obituary/judith-pulizzano-1083919359
This story originally appeared in the Jan./Feb./Mar. 2022 issue of Exhibit City News, p. 68. For original layout, visit https://issuu.com/exhibitcitynews/docs/ecn_q1_2022.
