Dr. Gino Paul Giusti
Mar 18, 2006
Dr. Gino Giusti – husband, father, grandfather, executive, leader and friend – passed away on March 18, 2006 from complications due to cancer. He was 78. Born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania on May 31, 1927 to the late Peter and Rose Giusti, Dr. Giusti grew up living behind and working at the shoe repair store owned by his father. He...
Leonard E. Cookney
Mar 16, 2006
Leonard E. Cookney, 70, an attorney in Stamford for 45 years, died March 16, 2006, of Lou GehrigÂ’s Disease in the Hospital for Special Care, New Britain, CT. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he graduated from Stamford High School 1953 and from Fordham Law School. He practiced law for most of the 45 years in Stamford on Bedford Street. He is...
Caesar “Cheech” Deleo
Mar 15, 2006
Caesar �"Cheech” DeLeo, 85, died on Wednesday March 15, 2006 at St. Barnabus Hospital in Bronx, NY. Born in Italy on July 15, 1920 to the late Frank and Frances DiFilippo DeLeo, he was a lifelong Stamford resident. He was a retired foreman for the DeLeo Brothers and was an Army veteran in World War II. He was an usher...
Esterina Vincenza Iannotta
Mar 14, 2006
Esterina Vincenza Iannotta, 96, died on Tuesday March 14, 2006 at Courtland Gardens Health Care Center in Stamford. She was born on January 10, 1910 in San Vincenzo, La Costa, Italy to the late Pasquale and Maria Asta Giordano. She was a homemaker, and her greatest joy was spending time with her family. She is survived by her daughter, Ida...
Martha Thornhill
Mar 13, 2006
Martha Thornhill, 87, died on Monday March 13, 2006 at her Stamford home. She was born in Greenwich, CT on October 17, 1918 to the late Andrew and Mary Reismond Milec. Martha attended the Greenwich schools. During the war she worked at Homelite. After the war she moved to Stamford with her late husband, James Thornhill. She worked with S.N.E.T...
Leon J. Puzzio
Mar 13, 2006
Leon J. Puzzio, 95, passed away on March 13, 2006 at his home in Stamford. He was born in Stamford on February 7, 1911 to the late John and Sophia Malanowski Puzzio. He spent his life in Stamford, except for the World War II years. He served with the �"E” Company, 391st Regiment, 98th Infantry Division. Leon performed under the...
Dora Caterbone
Mar 13, 2006
Dora Caterbone, 93, passed away on Monday March 13, 2006 at St. Camillus Health Care Center. She was born on July 22, 1912 in Stamford, CT to the late Giuseppe and Clementa Brunetti Francesconi. She is a member of the St. Cecilia RC Church and a former member of the Sacred Heart Rosary Society. She worked in the Stamford School...
Konstantinos Valassis
Mar 10, 2006
Konstantinos Valassis 71 of Stamford passed away at his home on Friday March 10, 2006. Born in Sparti, Greece August 6, 1934 he was the son of the late Steven and Athanasia Bakes Valassis. Mr. Valassis was employed as a butcher with Bongiorno Supermarket of Stamford having retired in 1993 after 20 years of service. Prior to his emigration to...
Joan Camurati
Mar 10, 2006
Joan Camurati, 89, of Stamford passed away on March 10, 2006. Born in Stamford, February 12, 1917, she was the daughter of the late Michael and Marie Bocadoro Nosenzo. She was a retired factory worker at Elinco. She was also a homemaker. She is survived by her daughter, Diane Ezzo and her husband Joseph of Stamford; a sister Ann Christiansen...
Dr. Rocco Cassone
Mar 9, 2006
Doctor Rocco Cassone, M.D., 88, died on March 9, 2006 at the Richard Rosenthal Hospice. Born May 26, 1917 in Stamford, CT, he was the firstborn son of Domenico and Julia Centonze Cassone. He attended Stamford High School and went to the University of Vermont, where he received his medical degree in 1941. Dr. Cassone was on the staff of...
Joseph P. Wakin
Mar 9, 2006
Joseph P. Wakin, the son of Lebanese immigrants who rose to a top executive position with Dun & Bradstreet Inc., died at his home in Stamford Thursday March 9, 2006. He was 69. Mr. Wakin suffered from Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare neurological disease with mysterious origins and no cure. Born in Bridgeport on June 29, 1936, Mr. Wakin graduated...
Frank D. Doc Rinaldi
Mar 8, 2006
Frank D. �"Doc” Rinaldi, 90, died on Wednesday March 8, 2006 at Stamford Hospital. He was born on November 21, 1915, in Stamford, to the late Gerardo and Maria Stanco Rinaldi. Mr. Rinaldi was a foreman for Electrolux for over forty years, having retired in 1978. He was a past member of Sacred Heart RC Church in Stamford, and a...
Bruno Cornelio, Sr.
Mar 7, 2006
Bruno Cornelio, Sr., 79, died on Tuesday March 7, 2006 at his Highview Avenue home in Stamford. He was born on September 30, 1926, in Ashland, West Virginia, to the late Dominico and Angelina DeLuca Cornelio. Bruno was a former employee at Lenders Boat Yard and Yale and Towne, and a retired foreman for the City of Stamford Parks and...
Julia Lea Wasicki
Mar 7, 2006
Julia Lea Wasicki, 81, formerly of Stamford and a resident of Barefoot Bay, Florida passed away in Florida on Wednesday March 7, 2006. Born in Stamford October 5, 1924, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Vita Perniciaro DeSalvo. Mrs. Wasicki, along with her late husband Roman Wasicki Sr., was the owner and operator of the former JuliaÂ’s...
Viola J. Viesto
Mar 5, 2006
Viola J. Viesto, 82, died on Sunday March 5, 2006 at her home, surrounded by her loving family. She was born on July 28, 1923 in Newport, RI, to the late Alphonso and Josephine Lupo. She is survived by her two sons Alan W. and his wife Sandra Viesto of Stamford; and Robert B. Sr. and his wife Laurie Zerrenner...
Beatrice A. Esposito
Mar 4, 2006
Beatrice A. Esposito, 77, died on Saturday March 4, 2006 at Stamford Hospital. She was born in Stamford, on July 20, 1928 to the late Leonardo and Rose Romaniello. She was a retired employee for the City of Stamford Board of Education, having worked at the cafeteria at Rogers Elementary School. She is survived by her husband Patsy N. Esposito...
Jiovina R. Lorenti
Mar 2, 2006
Jiovina R. Lorenti, 82, died on Thursday March 2, 2006 at her home in Hernando Beach, FL. She was born on March 24, 1923 in Charleston, SC, to the late Salvatore and Pasquelina Bello DeRosa. She is survived by her two daughters, JoAnn Peterson-Calanco of New Milford; and Janice L. Lorenti Schneider of Hernando Beach, FL; a son John J....
Francis J. Frank Keaney
Mar 1, 2006
FRANCIS J. (Frank) KEANEY, a resident of Stamford for over 50 years, died Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at age 82 after a long illness. Born in Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, Ireland in 1923, he was the son of the late Mary McGuinness Keaney and Hugh Keaney. He is survived by his loving wife of 40 years, Peg (Mulrooney) Keaney. Also surviving...
Angelo Lavorato
Feb 28, 2006
Angelo Lavorato, 75, died on Tuesday February 28, 2006 in Arena, province of Vibo Valentia, Italy. He is survived by his wife, Mariolina Poerio Lavorato; two daughters, Maria Pia Lavorato Sorbara and her husband Antonio; and Sandra Lavorato; a son, Salvatore Lavorato; three sisters, Maria Antonia Lavorato Stramandinoli; Raffaela Lavorato Napoli, and Caterina Lavorato Underwood; a brother, Joseph Lavorato; two...
Leonard Anthony Ammaturo
Feb 25, 2006
Leonard Anthony Ammaturo died of heart failure on Saturday, February 25, 2006, at Stamford Hospital, following surgery. He was 90. Tony, as his friends and family called him, was born in Rhinebeck, New York in 1915. At the age of 8 he immigrated to Bari, Italy with his parents Anna and Marc Antonio, where he was educated. The family then...
