Services have been set for Villanova grad, 23

Services have been set in Southington, Conn., for Lauryn E. Ossola, the 23-year-old Villanova University graduate who was fatally injured when she was hit by a car as she crossed Lancaster Avenue near Thomas Avenue in Bryn Mawr on Saturday, Oct. 22.

A visitation was set from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27, at the DellaVecchia Funeral Home, 211 Main St., Southington, before a Funeral Mass at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Thomas Roman Catholic Church, 99 Bristol St., Southington.

The regular evening Mass on the Villanova campus on Sunday was said in her honor.

Her father, Jerry Nickodemski, said in an interview published Monday that he was told that she was trying to catch up to a friend as she crossed the street.

Eugene Pasternak, traffic safety sergeant for the Lower Merion Township Police Department, said in a Tuesday phone interview that no charges were pending. "It will be a couple of weeks before the investigation is completed," he said.

An analyst for the Global Treasury Management Department in the Pittsburgh headquarters of PNC Bank, Miss Ossola was visiting the Main Line during homecoming weekend at Villanova, where her sister, Ellen, is a junior.

Born in New Haven, Conn., Miss Ossola graduated fifth in her class of 2006 at Southington High School, where she was a member of the girls' swimming and diving team and its captain as a senior.

A member of the Southington Stingrays, a swim club at the YMCA there, she spent summers as a lifeguard at Mountain Grove Swim Club in Southington.

In high school, she was a member of the Interact Club and the National Honor Society.

In the 2010 class at Villanova, Miss Ossola graduated cum laude with a major in economics and minors in finance and math.

While at Villanova, she earned a scholarship as a Presidential Scholar.

She was a member of the Student Government Association, the Villanova Ambassadors, and the Blue Key Society and spent a week in Ecuador as a missionary.

A four-year member of Chi Omega Sorority, she was president of its campus chapter as a senior.

And she led fund-raising for the sorority's annual Make a Wish campaign.

Besides her father and sister, Miss Ossola is survived by her mother, Lisa Ossola, grandmother Elizabeth Ossola, and grandparents William and Alta Nickodemski.