Sandy Hook victims mourned for lives cut short
USA TODAY
Published 6:24 p.m. ET Dec.16, 2012 - Updated 1:01 a.m. ET Dec. 18, 2012

Rachel Davino, 29

Rachel Davino, a teacher's aide at Sandy Hook, loved to cook, said her grandmother, Nicoletta Davino, of Waterbury, Conn.

The elder Davino said her granddaughter would visit her and she would share recipes from her native Italy.

"All of the time, she'd come to my house and say, 'I love you, grandma,' " said Nicoletta Davino, 76. "We'd cook together. She liked to cook. She liked all of my recipes."

Rachel Davino, who lived in New Britain, Conn., especially liked to make lasagna and tomato sauce. "Every year, we'd make tomato sauce together," Nicoletta Davino said.

Davino, who was not married, was a friendly young woman who had recently worked hard to earn her degree, her grandmother said, though she did not know from what school. "She'd go to school all the time," Nicoletta Davino said.

No one answered the phone at Rachel Davino's home Sunday. A soft-spoken voice apparently belonging to Rachel Davino was on the voice mail recording.

A guest on Davino's page on the Legacy.com site wrote, "I will always remember your sweet smile!"