Anna did not have many native-born American customers of middling status; however, Isabel Brown (later Mrs. Edgar Brunschwig), personal secretary to one of Anna's most prominent clients - Mrs. Stuart (Martha L.) Aldrich - was one of the few. The close relationship that developed between Anna and Isabel is an exception that suggests the impact of social status in the business. The personal and friendly communications between the two women contrast sharply with the more formal business-style correspondence of Anna's elite customers. Anna was able to impress middle-class Americans with her cosmopolitanism. A real-estate agent from Narragansett, Mrs. S. A. Walsh, after a meeting with Anna, wrote: "It was a pleasure to listen to one who had really seen so much of the world and was big enough to take it in and be able to give others some idea of it all."(20)

In 1915, the Providence City Directory did not record any Italians in the neighborhood of Anna's new residence and shop at 514 Broadway, nor on the streets that intersected it. Directly to the west of it was Saint Mary's, a large, prosperous Irish Catholic parish. It was at this time that the household established a pattern of regularly attending services at the conveniently placed Saint Mary's, while still holding major family religious events at Holy Ghost on Federal Hill, the nearest Italian parish church. They also sent the children in their care to Saint Mary's for schooling. Frank's daughter Primrose Tirocchi graduated from St. Mary's, but when it came to her religious instruction and First Communion, her mother insisted that those Catholic essentials take place at Holy Ghost, where proper Italian traditions would be honored. Primrose recalled that her mother objected to the Irish methods for designating godparents at St. Mary's.

Although Saint Mary's often received larger donations from Anna, her Christmas list included the priests at both parishes. Records of Anna's charitable contributions date from the early years on Broadway. If anything, they suggest an even further remove from the local Italian community. She donated to general charities in the Providence area, such as the Girl Scouts, Red Cross, Easter Seal Campaign, Catholic Charities, Rhode Island Hospital Fund, and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. In some cases it seems likely that these were in part business-related, as her clients solicited them. Anna's gifts to the Girl Scouts and the Homeopathic Hospital supported favorite charities of two of her most important clients. When she gave to Italian causes, they were not local but national campaigns directed toward Italy, such as the Italian World War Veterans in the United States, a fund for families of war victims in Italy. She made donations to various religious orders and charities in Italy, as well as contributing substantially to the reconstruction of the church in Guarcino. There is no indication that she supported local feast-day celebrations or other Italian American community activities in Rhode Island.(21)