Stamford Mom's Girls 'Were Her Whole Life'

STAMFORD, Conn. — "Those girls were her whole life," Madonna Badger's former Manhattan building superintendent said last week several days after Badger lost her family in a Stamford fire, the Connecticut Post reported.

"She used to take care of those kids and she just loved them so much," the superintendent, Trifu Penca, said, according to the Post. Badger’s three daughters and her parents were killed Christmas morning in a fire that engulfed the advertising executive’s home on Shippan Avenue.

Badger lived in New York more than 20 years before moving to Connecticut, Penca said.

"She left here because she wanted a better school for her kids, and because it was time to buy a house,” the Post quoted Penca as saying.

Alan Colabella, manager of the Stamford Yacht Club, where Badger was a member, said she was a very caring mother. "They seemed like a close family,” the Post quoted Colabella as saying. “Every time I saw them, they were always together. I never saw them apart."

As emergency responders led Badger to an EMS truck the morning of the fire, she told them, "My whole life is in there," the Post reported.

Funeral services are scheduled Thursday in Manhattan for Badger’s daughters, Lily, 9, and twins Sarah and Grace, 7, and her parents, Lomer and Pauline Johnson, who had been visiting for Christmas.

 

 

 

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