Holiday heartbreak.<br /><br />Real Housewives of New Jersey star Dolores Catania’s grandmother passed away on Wednesday after a tragic heart attack, RadarOnline.com exclusively learned. She was 104.<br /><br />Elizabeth Spagnola made a brief appearance with her granddaughter on RHONJ, but suffered a heart attack on December 26, 2017. She died the following day.<br /><br />“She lived through every war except the civil war,” Catania told Radar about her beloved grandmother. “She walked through the Holland Tunnel the day it opened.”<br /><br />Catania told Radar that her grandmother was spry her whole life. “She remembered my phone number by heart.”<br /><br />Spagnola’s spoke about her appearance on RHONJ at her 104th birthday party in November.<br /><br />“It was something different,” Spagnola told www.NorthJersey.com. “You knew the whole world was going to hear what you were saying.”<br /><br />PHOTOS: ‘RHONJ’ Star Teresa Giudice Faces More Heartbreak Without Jailbird Joe</a><br /><br />She spoke about her long life, saying: “It feels good — you did what you had to do. There’s nothing you can do about it. No regrets. I did everything I wanted.”<br /><br />Spagnola was born in 1913 and worked as a seamstress in a Paterson “sweatshop.” Her only child, son Lawrence Spagnola, Dolores Catania’s father, became the chief of police in 1997 and she attended the swearing in ceremony.<br /><br />Funeral services were being arranged by the family.<br /><br />We pay for juicy info! Do you have a story for RadarOnline.com? Email us at tips@radaronline.com, or call us at (866) ON-RADAR (667-2327) any time, day or night.
