by B. » Sat Jan 02, 2021 2:41 pm
johnny_scootch wrote: ↑Wed Sep 09, 2020 5:19 pm
johnny_scootch wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 1:06 pm
Last time I saw John LaBarbera (maybe 5 years ago or more) he had on a 60k watch and he was driving a new Rolls Royce..lol
but you're right on the whole.
I was speaking to someone about the LaBarbera family recently and I was very surprised by it so I looked around to see if I could confirm and turns out that John LaBarbera's mother is a Settecasi. Not just any Settecasi but a Settecasi from Alessandria Della Rocca. She's either the younger sister or a younger cousin of
theGiuseppe Settecasi. The person I was speaking to mentioned her funeral and so I was able to find this
Maria LaBarbera, 93, passed away on March 13, 2014, at the home of her daughter, Rose Marie, in Colonia, N.J., surrounded by her loving family.
Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend the funeral from the Corsentino Home for Funerals, 620 Second Ave., corner of John St., Elizabeth, N.J., on Monday, March 17, 2014, at 9:15 a.m., thence to St. Anthony's R.C. Church, in Elizabeth, where at 10:30 a.m. a Funeral Mass will be offered. Visitation will be held at the funeral home on Sunday from 4 to 8 p.m. Entombment will be at Rosedale Cemetery Linden, N.J.
Maria was born in Alessandria Della Rocca, Italy. She came to Elizabeth, where she resided for 47 years until moving to Colonia in 2003.
She enjoyed traveling, going to Atlantic City, and attending her weekly gatherings with her girlfriends, where they would play cards for pennies. She was known for cooking everything from scratch, especially her traditional Sicilian cookies, which everyone loved.
Most of all, she adored being around her grandchildren, and spending time with her family.
A devoted and caring mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and sister, she is survived by her children, Joseph and his wife, Mary LaBarbera; Angela and her husband, Fred Adams; Ben and his wife, Doreen LaBarbera; Rose Marie and her husband, Joe Ruvolo, and Giovanni (John) and his wife, Angelica LaBarbera; 17 loving grandchildren; 22 adoring great-grandchildren; and sister, Vincenza Settecasi, in Italy. She was predeceased by her beloved husband, Vincenzo LaBarbera.
To Plant Memorial Trees in memory, please visit our Sympathy Store.
Published in The Star-Ledger on Mar. 15, 2014.
obits.nj.com
There's def more to this.
- As we were talking about, DeCavalcante member Vincenzo LaBarbera was from Tampa before NJ and family was from Alessandria, related to the Settecasis. Vincenxo LaBarbera also owned property in DeCavalcante outpost Marlboro, NY.
- DeCav member John LaMela was also born in Tampa with heritage from Alessandria della Rocca. Living in NYC by 1927, traveled to Italy with
Ignazio Scaglione, also born in Tampa, who lived in Marlboro, NY, where LaMela later lived. Both the LaMelas and Scagliones were from Alessandria della Rocca, like most of the Tampa members.
- John LaMela also traveled to Italy in 1955, by this time living in Marlboro. Also traveling with him was
Antonino Settecase (Settecasi) who was born in Tampa and lived in Marlboro like LaMela. LaMela was also in Italy for an "extensive period" in the mid-1960s to handle his father's estate. No records currently available to see who he traveled with.
- There was a small colony from Alessandria della Rocca, San Stefano Quisquina, and Ribera in Marlboro, NY. It's making more sense why the DeCavalcantes controlled Marlboro, which is out of the way to say the least. I wonder if Joseph Miranda, who also lived in Marlboro, has heritage from Agrigento.
- In an interview with the FBI, LaMela said he moved to Marlboro in the 1940s and before that was living in Elizabeth, NJ, where he worked for Local 394. His trajectory and background connects a lot of dots for us.
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Last time I saw John LaBarbera (maybe 5 years ago or more) he had on a 60k watch and he was driving a new Rolls Royce..lol
but you're right on the whole.
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I was speaking to someone about the LaBarbera family recently and I was very surprised by it so I looked around to see if I could confirm and turns out that John LaBarbera's mother is a Settecasi. Not just any Settecasi but a Settecasi from Alessandria Della Rocca. She's either the younger sister or a younger cousin of [i]the[/i]Giuseppe Settecasi. The person I was speaking to mentioned her funeral and so I was able to find this
[b]Maria LaBarbera, 93, passed away on March 13, 2014, at the home of her daughter, Rose Marie, in Colonia, N.J., surrounded by her loving family.
Relatives and friends are kindly invited to attend the funeral from the Corsentino Home for Funerals, 620 Second Ave., corner of John St., Elizabeth, N.J., on Monday, March 17, 2014, at 9:15 a.m., thence to St. Anthony's R.C. Church, in Elizabeth, where at 10:30 a.m. a Funeral Mass will be offered. Visitation will be held at the funeral home on Sunday from 4 to 8 p.m. Entombment will be at Rosedale Cemetery Linden, N.J.
Maria was born in Alessandria Della Rocca, Italy. She came to Elizabeth, where she resided for 47 years until moving to Colonia in 2003.
She enjoyed traveling, going to Atlantic City, and attending her weekly gatherings with her girlfriends, where they would play cards for pennies. She was known for cooking everything from scratch, especially her traditional Sicilian cookies, which everyone loved.
Most of all, she adored being around her grandchildren, and spending time with her family.
A devoted and caring mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and sister, she is survived by her children, Joseph and his wife, Mary LaBarbera; Angela and her husband, Fred Adams; Ben and his wife, Doreen LaBarbera; Rose Marie and her husband, Joe Ruvolo, and Giovanni (John) and his wife, Angelica LaBarbera; 17 loving grandchildren; 22 adoring great-grandchildren; and sister, Vincenza Settecasi, in Italy. She was predeceased by her beloved husband, Vincenzo LaBarbera.
To Plant Memorial Trees in memory, please visit our Sympathy Store.
Published in The Star-Ledger on Mar. 15, 2014.
obits.nj.com[/b]
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There's def more to this.
- As we were talking about, DeCavalcante member Vincenzo LaBarbera was from Tampa before NJ and family was from Alessandria, related to the Settecasis. Vincenxo LaBarbera also owned property in DeCavalcante outpost Marlboro, NY.
- DeCav member John LaMela was also born in Tampa with heritage from Alessandria della Rocca. Living in NYC by 1927, traveled to Italy with [b]Ignazio Scaglione, also born in Tampa, who lived in Marlboro, NY[/b], where LaMela later lived. Both the LaMelas and Scagliones were from Alessandria della Rocca, like most of the Tampa members.
- John LaMela also traveled to Italy in 1955, by this time living in Marlboro. Also traveling with him was [b]Antonino Settecase (Settecasi) who was born in Tampa and lived in Marlboro[/b] like LaMela. LaMela was also in Italy for an "extensive period" in the mid-1960s to handle his father's estate. No records currently available to see who he traveled with.
- There was a small colony from Alessandria della Rocca, San Stefano Quisquina, and Ribera in Marlboro, NY. It's making more sense why the DeCavalcantes controlled Marlboro, which is out of the way to say the least. I wonder if Joseph Miranda, who also lived in Marlboro, has heritage from Agrigento.
- In an interview with the FBI, LaMela said he moved to Marlboro in the 1940s and before that was living in Elizabeth, NJ, where he worked for Local 394. His trajectory and background connects a lot of dots for us.