Tarentum woman, 19, becoming 3rd owner of Merle Norman Cosmetics studio
Brian C. Rittmeyer | Tribune-Review
Olivia Grace Fertig, 19, stands in front of the building that will house her Merle Norman Cosmetics studio on Corbet Street in Tarentum on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. She is buying the business and moving it from New Kensington to Tarentum, where she plans to have a grand opening on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020.
Brian C. Rittmeyer | Tribune-Review
Mary Lee Naccarato, of Washington Township, stands in her Merle Norman Cosmetics studio in New Kensington on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. After six years in business, Naccarato is retiring and selling her studio to Olivia Grace Fertig, 19, who is moving the business to her hometown of Tarentum.
Brian C. Rittmeyer | Tribune-Review
Suzi Fertig and her daughter, Olivia Grace Fertig, pictured in the Tarentum storefront that became a Merle Norman Cosmetics studio on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020.
Courtesy of Cindy Homburg
A postcard shows the Isaly’s store that had been on Corbet Street in Tarentum. Olivia Grace Fertig, whose grandmother was a cook there in the 1970s, plans to open a Merle Norman Cosmetics studio in the same location in September, and restore an Isaly’s sign that remains on the building.
Brian C. Rittmeyer | Tribune-Review
The building that will house Olivia Grace Fertig’s Merle Norman Cosmetics studio on Corbet Street in Tarentum had once been an Isaly’s shop. Fertig’s grandmother, Beverly Tadrzak, had worked there as a cook in the 1970s. Olivia Grace plans to restore the peeling Isaly’s sign.
