THE BLACK HAND FORUM

Great stuff. Joseph Valenti was likely a made member as Sam Mannarino said the marriage between Stan and Ripepi's daughter was an example of an arranged marriage by Cosa Nostra figures.

Frank & Costenze Valenti

Descendants of Joseph Valenti


Generation No. 1

1. Joseph1 Valenti was born June 13, 1878 in Santa Marcherita di Belice, Agrigento, Sicily, and died November 1969 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York. He married Rosalia Inserra Abt. 1906, daughter of Salvatore Inserra and Bessie Degarlio. She was born 1889 in Sicily, and died April 1966.

Notes for Joseph Valenti:
1910 CENSUS NY Monroe Co. Rochester Ward 6 ED 70 Family 94, 460 East Main St.
Joseph Valenti, 30, m1 4y, IT arr 1903, whosesale fruit proprietor
Rosa, 20, m1 4y, 2 children 2 living, IT arr 1906; Paul, 2; Samuel, 1

WWI Draft Registration Card
Joe Valente, 14 Herman St, Rochester, New York
Age 40, born June 13, 1878 in Italy
Works in produce for Frank Valents, 28 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, N.Y.
Rosaleasara Valente, 14 Hermanst, Rochester, N.Y.
Tall, brown eyes, black hair
Registered Sept. 12, 1918

1920 CENSUS NY Monroe Co. Rochester Ward 13 ED 149 Family 25, 28 Mt. Hope Ave.
Jos. Valenti, 42, IT arr 1907, street huckster
Rose, 30, IT arr 1901; Paul, 14; Samuel, 10; Rose, 9; Frank, 8; Mary, 7; Anthony, 5; Sarah, 3; Cecelia, 2; John, 7 mo.

1930 CENSUS NY Monroe Co. Rochester Ward 13 ED 85 Family 27, 182 Mt. Hope Ave.
Joseph Vallenti, 50, m at 28, SIC arr 1917, retail fruit dealer
Rose, 40, m at 17, SIC arr 1917; Paul, 22, mason; Samuel, 21, laborer building trades; Rose, 19; Francis, 18, barber; Mary, 17;
Anthony, 15; Sarah, 18; Bessie, 12; John, 11; Lillian, 8; Josephine, 6; Stanley, 4

1940 CENSUS NY Monroe Co. Rochester Ward 13 ED 65-154 Family 121, 528 South Avenue
Joseph Valenti, 61, IT, huckster
Rosalee, 50, IT; Samuel, 31; Nancy, 29; Elizabeth 22; John, 20; Rosalee, 18; Josephine, 16; Stanley, 14

More About Joseph Valenti:
Burial: Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rochester, Monroe Co., New York

Children of Joseph Valenti and Rosalia Inserra are:
2 i. Paul Joseph2 Valenti, born November 26, 1907 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York; died November 05, 1988 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York.
+ 3 ii. Samuel J. Valenti, born March 20, 1909 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York; died June 13, 1995 in Pittsford, Monroe Co., New York.
4 iii. Rose Valenti, born Abt. 1911. She married (Husband) Marcello.
+ 5 iv. Frank Joseph "The Sphinx" Valenti, born September 14, 1911 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York; died September 20, 2008 in Sugar Land, Fort Bend Co., Texas.
6 v. Mary Valenti, born Abt. 1913 in New York; died Aft. 1930.
+ 7 vi. Anthony P. Valenti, born October 31, 1914 in New York; died August 1981.
8 vii. Sarah Valenti, born Abt. 1917.
9 viii. Elizabeth P. "Bessie" Valenti, born Abt. 1918.
10 ix. John A. Valenti, born 1919.
11 x. Lillian Valenti, born Abt. 1922.
12 xi. Josephine C. Valenti, born Abt. 1924.
13 xii. Costenze Peter "Stanley" Valenti, born February 08, 1926 in Rochester, New York; died February 23, 2001 in ?Victor, Ontario Co., New York. He married Catherine "Kay" Ripepi 1956 in ?Allegheny County, Pa.; born Abt. 1935 in Pennsylvania.

Notes for Costenze Peter "Stanley" Valenti:
In the wake of the infamous Apalachin Conference in November 1957, the New York State Crime Commission began an investigation of the individuals from New York who attended the meeting. Costenze "Stanley" Valenti, the recognized boss of the Rochester Family, and his brother Frank were jailed for civil contempt after failing to answer the questions of the commission members. Stanley began his sentence in August 1958 and served 16 months.

Costenze "Stanley" Valenti was the first known boss of Rochester. He was present at Apalachin in November of 1957. After refusing to answer questions "Stanley" and his brother Frank, a capo in the Pittsburgh family, were jailed for civil contempt. He started serving 16 months in 1957. (Fortunecity.com)
Constenze "Stanley" Valenti (February 8, 1926 – February 23, 2001) was boss of the criminal organization known as the Rochester crime family in the 1950s. As the head of the organization he oversaw gambling, prostitution and extortion rackets operating in the city of Rochester, New York.
Constenze and his brother Frank were among the 100 or more Mafiosi that attended the legendary Apalachin Meeting in 1957. At the time, Stanley was boss of the family. Joe Valachi identified the Valenti brothers as central figures in the Mafia when he became a government witness in 1963.
Stanley was born in Rochester, New York. He was married to Antonio Ripepi's daughter. Ripepi was a very powerful capo in the Pittsburgh crime family. In 1958, Valenti refused to cooperate with law enforcement regarding questioning about the Apalachin Meeting. As a result, Constenze was sentenced to 16 months in prison. Jake Russo took this opportunity to seize control of the family.
He died on February 23, 2001 at his home in Victor, New York at the age of 75. [Wiki]

Costenze "Stan" Valenti, boss of the Rochester Crime Family in the 1950's, was actually made into the LaRocca Crime Family in Pittsburgh and was the son in law to longtime Pittsburgh Capo Antonio Ripepi. Valenti's brother in law was John Bazzano Jr., who was married to Ripepi's other daughter. Ripepi helped the Valenti brothers break off from Pittsburgh to form their own family in Rochester, in which Pittsburgh and Buffalo took a piece of the rackets. _jcb

Notes for Catherine "Kay" Ripepi:
On August 1, 1956, a reliable source advised that he was in attendance at a wedding reception honoring the marriage of Kay Ripepi and Stanley Valenti held at the Penn-Sheraton Hotel, Pittsburgh. According to this source, Sam and Kelly Mannarino were in attendance, along with many influential and nationally known individuals and reportedly cost the bride's father, Tony Ripepi, in the neighborhood of $30,000 to $40,000. (JFK FBI)

14 xiii. Lucy Valenti.

Notes for Lucy Valenti:
Sister Mary Lawrence


Generation No. 2

3. Samuel J.2 Valenti (Joseph1) was born March 20, 1909 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York, and died June 13, 1995 in Pittsford, Monroe Co., New York. He married Louise A. DeCarlo. She was born June 08, 1909 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York, and died October 14, 2007 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York.

Notes for Samuel J. Valenti:
In 1957, a trucker. Attended St. Mary's Church and School, Rochester, with Eugene Heveron.

This may be Sam:

Sam Valenti
SSN: 080-36-1049
Last Residence: 14534 Pittsford, Monroe, New York, United States of America
Born: 20 Mar 1909
Died: 13 Jun 1995
State (Year) SSN issued: New York (1962 )



Child of Samuel Valenti and Louise DeCarlo is:
15 i. Joseph3 Valenti, born Abt. 1946 in Pittsford, Monroe Co., New York.


5. Frank Joseph "The Sphinx"2 Valenti (Joseph1) was born September 14, 1911 in Rochester, Monroe Co., New York, and died September 20, 2008 in Sugar Land, Fort Bend Co., Texas. He married (1) Marcelean Williams March 18, 1936, daughter of Charles Williams and Marcelean (Williams). She was born May 10, 1905 in Maryland, and died October 1974. He married (2) Mary Eileen Barefoot October 02, 1952, daughter of Clarence Barefoot and Mary Kraus. She was born February 11, 1932 in Braddock, Allegheny Co., Pa., and died November 11, 2000 in Houston, Texas.

Notes for Frank Joseph "The Sphinx" Valenti:
1940 Census indicated that Frank had a 6th grade education.

According to Frank, he left Rochester when he was 12 years old and went to live with an uncle in Monongahela, Pa.

In 1930 was a barber in Rochester, still living at home. At one time supposedly either a barber or a shoemaker in Monongahela. Left Monongahela around 1931. Monongahela is across the river from Gallatin, so if he was in Monongahela, he may have known Ripepi then.

In 1931, a Whippet roadster was seized by state police near Berks Glen, Patton Twp., Allegheny Co., being operated by James and Jack Terenzia to haul moonshine whisky, The vehicle was registered to Frank Valent and Ralph Iusi. Frank's address was given as 6 Werder Ave., in the Elliott section of Pittsburgh.

Arrested in 1931 as part of a bank robbery, and in 1933 in an attempt to highjack a payroll.

In September, 1934, convicted of passing counterfeit currency, along with Peter Albanese (Albenze) and his (Valenti's) wife, Marcelean. He was sentenced to 2 years, and she one year. Involved in a clothing store robbery in 1934. Extortion charge, 1936. A crazy scam in 1937. Bootleg whisky in 1940. 1944 dice game holdup.

1940 CENSUS PA Allegheny Co. Pittsburgh Ward 13 ED 69-328 Family 29, 7307 Upland St.
Frank Valanti, 29, NY, salesman American Cigarette Machine Co.
Marcelean, 32, MD; Oscar Williams, bil, 28, MD, laborer for contractor

From a PG 1946 article:
Compiled from FBI's records of city and county arrests:
February 3, 1933, fined $5 for allegedly trying to rob the paymaster for a contractor on the new Federal Bldg.
· February 1, 1934 - Arrested by city police for possessing and passing counterfeit bills. He was sentenced to two years in Lewisburg Federal penitentiary.
· August 10, 1934 - Arrested by city police while on bail from the counterfeiting charge. Charged with forging stolen travelers' checks. Discharged.
On September 4, 1934, Valenti was sentenced to two years in a Federal prison after he was convicted of conspiring to pass counterfeit money.
A month after he entered the prison, Valenti pleaded tuilty to looting a Fifth Ave. clothing shop of $5000 worth of merchandise.
· September 9, 1936 - Arrested by county detectives and charged with blackmail. No disposition of case in records. May have been discharged by a magistrate.
· April 15, 1937 - Arrested by city police for extortion. The case was nolle prossed.
· May 19, 1938 - Arrested by city police and charged with breaking into a Liberty avenue clothing store. Officers said he admitted taking 43 men's suits but the grand jury refused to indict him.
· February 5, 1940 - Arrested by city police on a charge of operating a lottery (numbers). Fined $100 by Judge John P. Egan in criminal court.
In April, 1941, he was sentenced to a year and a day in jail after he was conficted with six others on a charge of conspiring to violate the Internal Revenue Act by operating a three-county "moonshine" ring.
· July 22, 1944 - Valenti was taken to county jail, charged with assault and battery and attempt to commit rape. Identity of arresting officer and disposition of the case are not in the records. [Part of his draft-dodge.]
And now comes the strictly Federal part of the FBI records:
· 1932 - Sent to Lewisburg Federal penitentiary for two years on a charge of conspiracy.
· April 16, 1940 - Picked up by United States marshals for violating internal revenue laws. Sentenced to a year and a day. Appealed for new trial. Arrested the day he appealed and charged by the Federal alcohol tax investigation unit with conspiracy. Sent to Lewisburg Federal penitentiary on February 17, 1942. Discharged November 1, 1942, and put on probation until January 12, 1943. Was a barber while serving his sentence.

By 1946, partnered with Etzi Covato in a Spaghetti Village in Downtown, and opened one in East Liberty. Prior to 1948, was partner in the Villa Madrid night club in East Liberty (or Downtown?).
Later a restauranteur in East Liberty and in downtown Pittsburgh, and associated with the murders of Fred Garrow and Frank Evans around 1946.

Valenti was a Rochesterian who moved with his family to Pittsburgh at a young age. I'm unsure how his mob connections began, but it's clear that by the 1950s he was deeply involved in overseeing gambling rings in Pittsburgh. In 1957, he moved back to Rochester, claiming that the media focus on him in Pittsburgh was intense and unfair. However, the truth may be that Rochester was seen as a fertile ground for a more organized structure of illegal gambling. Valenti, and ultimately the Rochester mob, was an extension of the Bonanno crime family in New York City. The Valenti-Bonanno connection was firm before he moved back to Rochester, so that may have ensured that he had the power to grab control in Rochester without a struggle.
[In 1958] Frank Valenti was a capo in the Pittsburgh Crime Family of John LaRocca and worked under Antonio Ripepi. (His brother was married to Ripepi's daughter.) Frank was considered an ambitious man in the Pittsburgh Family and was encouraged to help his brother. When Frank tried to intervene in Russo's takeover of the Rochester activities, he was indicted for violation of New York State election laws. Frank pled guilty and was sentenced to three years probation providing that he stayed out of New York during this period. Informants later revealed that this arrest was contrived by the enemies of the Valentis' to get Frank out of Rochester.
At the end of the probation period, Frank Valenti returned to Rochester. In September 1964, he and Pittsburgh associate Angelo Vaccaro set out with brother Stanley to retake control of the family. In December, less than three months later, Russo disappeared and his body has never been found. On the night of the disappearance, Frank hosted a dinner at Eddie's Chop House in Rochester. Buying drinks for everyone, Frank let it be known that he was now "the man to see in Rochester."
From 1965 to 1970, the Valentis strengthened their hold on the Rochester Rackets. During 1970, Frank Valenti told Buffalo family boss Stephano Magaddino that the Rochester Family's allegiance would now be to the Pittsburgh Family. Magaddino, who was in failing health and struggling with dissention in his own family, was helpless to do anything to stop Valenti. Magaddino continued to collect 15% of the gambling revenue, but Rochester would operate as an independent family.
Rochester law enforcement and the media were becoming aware of the increased underworld activity in the city. To divert their attention, Valenti arranges for a series of bombings at various public locations. This diversion worked for a time, with suspicion for the bombings placed on various other groups. In June 1975 a federal investigation revealed the truth behind the bombings. Valenti was tried in February 1979 for possession of a "destructive device" and pled guilty. Again, he received a sentence of three years probation.
Valenti set up a strange hierarchy in his Rochester Family. He had an underboss, consigliere, and caops, but he then set up a special crew under Donimic Chirico that reported directly to him. The members of this special crew committed crimes on Valenti's orders and the proceeds would go to him and were not shared with the rest of the family.
Valenti's consigliere, Rene Piccaretto, who had developed ties with the Bonnano Family in New York City, confronted Valenti with the allegations that he was withholding profits from these operations from the rest of the family. He and others accused Valenti of skimming and using the money to purchase property and make business investments in Phoenix, Arizona. Valenti brazenly admitted to "keeping certain moneys" for himself, but was unconcerned with his accusers, feeling confident that the Pittsburgh Family and his special crew... would protect him.
In May 1972, the three men approached Valenti again, this time ordering him to relinquish the family's records and to turn over the money that he had skimmed. He was told it was time for him to retire. Valenti turned over what was requested, but immediately ordered Chirico to kill Russotti, Gingello, and Piccarreto. Realizing the strength of family members loyal to the trio, the soldiers under Chirico refused to carry out Valenti's orders. Crime experts believe that Thomas Didio, a member of Chirico's elite crew, advised his cousin, Thomas Marotta, a close associate of Gingello, of Valent's order to kill the three men. Piccarreto approached his Bonanno contacts for support in removing Valenti. They advised that killing Valenti would not be sanctioned due to his connections with the Pittsburgh Family. The gang members then moved against Chirico and he was shot-gunned to death on June 5, 1972 outside the apartment of his girlfriend. The following day Valenti was confronted by Russotti, Gingello and Piccarreto at the Red Lion Inn and again was ordered to leave Rochester.
Valenti, fearing that he could be murdered next, finally got the messge and "retired" to Phoenix. His brother, Stanley, moved outside Rochester and established a produce business and continued with some small time gambling activities. On December 15, 1972, Frank Valenti was convicted of extortion in a case involving building contractor in Batavia, New York. He is sentenced to twenty years. [released from Atlanta Penitentiary June 19, 1980]
In 1978, during the "Alphabet Wars", he attempted to reassert some influence with the Rochester Family, but this effort failed.
Valenti was tried in February 1979 for possession of a "destructive device" in connection with the Rochester bombings and pled guilty. (He was not tried with the rest in June 1975 due to health problems.) Again, he received a sentence of three years probation.

Frank J. Valenti (September 14, 1911 – September 20, 2008) was boss of the criminal organization known as the Rochester crime family from 1964 to 1972. As the head of the organization he oversaw gambling, prostitution and extortion rackets operating in the city of Rochester, New York.
Frank and his brother Constenze "Stanley" Valenti were among the 100+ Mafiosi that attended the legendary Apalachin Meeting in 1957. At the time, Frank was underboss of the family. Joe Valachi identified the Valenti brothers as central figures in the Mafia when he became a government witness in 1963. Valachi also stated that Frank was a soldier in the Bonanno crime family of New York City.[1]
According to the U.S. Social Security Death Index, Frank was born in Pittsburgh, PA where he became a powerful crime figure throughout the 1930s - 1950s. Valenti also owned a chain of Spaghetti Village restaurants in PA. In 1958, Frank's brother Stanley was boss of the Rochester crime family and refused to cooperate with law enforcement regarding questioning about the Apalachin Meeting. As a result, Constenze was sentenced to 16 months in prison. Jake Russo took this opportunity to seize control of the family. Frank tried to intervene but was ordered out of the state for 3 years following a conviction for violation of the election laws. He moved back to Pittsburgh in the early 1960s, serving as a capo in the Pittsburgh crime family under John LaRocca. In 1964, with support from the LaRocca family, Valenti returned to Rochester and took control of the family. Jake Russo disappeared around that time, never to be seen again.
In 1970, Valenti informed Stefano Magaddino that the Rochester crime family would no longer pay tribute to Buffalo; the Rochester crime family was on its own, with support from the Pittsburgh crime family. He had a stint in federal prison on extortion charges, before moving to Arizona, and then Texas.
He died on September 20, 2008 at a nursing home in Sugar Land outside Houston at the age of 97. [Wiki]

Frank Valenti, brother of Constenze Valenti and also an orighinal member of the LaRocca Crime Family, went to Rochester with his brother to run the rackets there for the Pittsburgh family. Buffalo also took a piece of the rackets there. Frank got into a bloody war with rival factions, left Rochester, then came back. He lived to be 97 years old. _jcb



Notes for Marcelean Williams:
Sentenced in 1934 for counterfeiting.

Valenti divorced her April 15, 1946.

Name: Marcelean Williams
SSN: 173-24-5284
Last Residence: 15221 Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Born: 10 May 1905
Died: Oct 1974
State (Year) SSN issued: Pennsylvania (Before 1951 )


Marriage Notes for Frank Valenti and Marcelean Williams:
Marriage date may have been April 18, 1936. They were divorced in 1945.

Notes for Mary Eileen Barefoot:
VALENTI
EILEEN (BAREFOOT)
Age 68, died November 11, 2000 in Houston, Texas. Eileen was born February 11, 1932 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Clarence Ray and Mary Elizabeth Barefoot. She was a brilliant gardener and a member of the Sugar Creek Garden Club. She is survived by Frank Valenti; her five daughters, Ramona Valenti and husband Brian, Karan Kovacs and husband Gary, Nancy Mendenhall and husband Pat, Carla Valenti and Gina Valenti; her sister Bobbie Solomon; her brother Bill Barefoot; eight grandchildren and numerous niece and nephews. The family would like to offer a special thanks to Laura Seymor at Saint Luke's ICU for caring for their mother. Services for Eileen will be held Tuesday, November 14, 2000 at 11:30 AM in the chapel in MEMORIAL OAKS FUNERAL HOME, 13001 Katy Freeway, Houston, Texas 77-79. Visitation will be at the funeral home Monday, Nov. 13, 2000 from from 7:00 PM to 9:000 PM. In lieu of flowers the family request donations to be made to the Arthritis Foundation of Texas Gulf Coast Chapter, 3701 Kirby Dr., Houston, Texas 77098.

Child of Frank Valenti and Marcelean Williams is:
16 i. (Daughter)3 Valenti, born Abt. 1937.


Children of Frank Valenti and Mary Barefoot are:
17 i. Ramona3 Valenti, born Abt. 1953. She married Brian Valenti.
18 ii. Karen Valenti, born Abt. 1954. She married Gary Kovacs.
19 iii. Nancy Valenti, born Abt. 1956. She married Pat Mendenhall.
20 iv. Carla Valenti, born Abt. 1958.
21 v. Gina Valenti, born 1961.


7. Anthony P.2 Valenti (Joseph1) was born October 31, 1914 in New York, and died August 1981. He married Mary (Valenti). She was born Abt. 1916 in New York, and died Aft. 1940.

Child of Anthony Valenti and Mary (Valenti) is:
22 i. Rosalee3 Valenti, born Abt. 1939.

Giuseppe “Joe the Ghost” Pangallo

Descendants of Frank Pangallo


Generation No. 1

1. Frank1 Pangallo He married Elizabeth Russo.

Children of Frank Pangallo and Elizabeth Russo are:
2 i. Giuseppe "Joe the Ghost"2 Pangallo, born February 21, 1889 in Oppido Mamertina, Reggio Calabria, Italy; died February 25, 1930 in Stowe Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married Aurelia Drago; born March 17, 1889 in Italy; died January 04, 1948 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..

Notes for Giuseppe "Joe the Ghost" Pangallo:
May have had a connection to Youngstown.

WWI Draft Registration Card
Joseph Pangallo, 113 Smithton Ave., North Side, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.
Age 28, born February 21, 1889 in Oppido Mamertina, Naples, Italy
Laborer for Pittsburgh Wine & Liquor, 801 Wylie Ave., Pittsburgh
Single, no dependants
Registered June 5, 1917 [Says "Naples" but Oppido Mamertina is in Reggio.]

Enlisted in the army, 10/12/17. Discharged 3/12/18. Co. G, 320th Infantry.

In 1924, Pangallo applied for a license to sell steamship tickets.

A 1927 newspaper article lists his name as Joe Drago, alias Pinella.

At some point in the late '20s, two guys who were hired to kill Joe were themselves rubbed out.

In 1928 Joe Lucisano was shot to death in Pangallo's shoe store in Stowe Twp.

Charged but released in the murder of Steve Monastero, August 1929. A grand jury failed to indict him.

Joe died at his home in McKees Rocks in 1930, of pneumonia.






More About Giuseppe "Joe the Ghost" Pangallo:
Burial: St. Mary's Cemetery, Kennedy Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

More About Aurelia Drago:
Burial: St. Mary's Cemetery, Kennedy Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

3 ii. Giovanni Pangallo, died Aft. 1928.

Giuseppe Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli

Descendants of Giuseppe Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli


Generation No. 1

1. Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli (Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born January 01, 1887 in Cosoleto, Reggio Calabria, Italy, and died Aft. 1964 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He married Agata Maria Vigilante/Vigiolati June 1917 in Westmoreland Co., Pa., daughter of Frank Vigilenti/Vigilanti and Anna Ceratti. She was born November 05, 1892 in Bruzzano Zeffirio, Reggio Calabria, Italy, and died June 16, 1988 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio.

Notes for Giuseppe Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli:
This might be Joe:
SHOT BY BLACKHANDERS, The Pittsburgh Post, April 11, 1914
Grafton, W.Va., April 10 - Riddled with bullets, Signorino Magnazzi is dying tonight at a hospital here as the outcome of what he claims was a Black Hand affray, that occurred near this city last night. He said he was shot by Joe Pindelli and Pete and Joe Garfia, all intimate friends, because he had declined to join a "blackhand" society. He was found with two holes through his body and another one through his head, destroying his sight.

WWI Draft Registration Card
Gse Pandaglio, 410 Pittsburgh St., Scottdale, Pa.
Age 30, born January 1, 1887 in Cosolito, Reggio, Italy
Laborer for Gilardy, Contractor, Hawkeye Road
Married

1920 CENSUS PA Westmoreland Co. Scottdale Ward 1 ED 201 Family 68
Joe Pandaglio, 32, IT, arr 1902, laborer at pipe mill
Agnes, 26, IT, arr 1902; Benny, 7, WV; Josephine, 4, OH; Frank, 2; Frank Vigilent, fil, 52, widower, arr 1902; Mary, sil, 12
Santo Fenorchito, 24, IT arr 1910; Rosario Sacco, 37, IT arr 1912; Frank Lopeno, 23, IT arr 1913; Patsie Dinello, 20, IT arr 1905.

In 1922, listed in the Mercantile Appraiser's List as a grocer in Scottdale.

It appears that Joe was in league with Patsy Dinello, Frank Romano and others in 1926 at the time of Romano's death.

Boarder Patsy Dinello was arrested in 1925 in the Hill for distribution of cocaine.

SCOTTDALE GROCER FACES DOPE CHARGE, Morning Herald, Uniontown, Pa., May 9, 1928
Pittsburgh, May 8 (AP) - Joseph Pandaglio, Scottdale grocer, and 14 other defendants who as a group were alleged to have conspired to violate the Federal narcotic act went on trial today before Judge F. P. Schoonmaker in United States District Court. Celeste Jones, who pleaded guilty to a charge the same as placed against the others and who was sentenced to the county jail is the principal witness for the Commonwealth.

SCOTTDALE GROCER GETS THREE YEARS IN ATLANTA PRISON, The Weekly Courier, Connellsville, Pa., May 24, 1928, Thursday
Pittsburgh, May 16 - Eight members of what was known as the Pittsburgh-Homestead-Scottdale narcotic gang were sentenced yesterday by Judge F. P. Schoonmaker in United States district court. Joe Pandaglio, Scottdale grocer, and leader of the dope ring, was sentenced to three years in Atlanta penitentiary. Pandaglio'w wife, Agnes Pandaglio, was sentenced to the pen for a year, but, later this was changed to a parole for three years.
The other sentences follow: Tobias Murti, two years at Atlanta; Dominick Torch, three months in jail; Mary Vigilanti, Mary Hodge and Elsie Johnson, one year each in a woman's penal institution; Bennie Pandaglio, 16, to the National Training School for Boys until he becomes of age. They were convicted last Friday of conspiracy to violate the narcotic act.

1930 CENSUS KS Leavenworth Co. Fort Leavenworth, United States Penitentiary ED 17 Sheet 27B
Joseph Pandaglio, inmate, 42, m at 26, IT arr 1902, cook

WWII Draft Registration 1942
Joseph Pindilli, 280 Clinton St., Warren, Ohio
Age 55, born January 1, 1887 in Cosolito, Reggio Calabria, Italy
Benny Pindilli, son, same address
Self-employed cooking oil salesman, Warren, Trumbul Co., Ohio

DV xx-C advised that Guiseppi Pindelli was born 1/1/97 in Cosilita Reggio Calabria, Italy, and immigrated to the United States and settled in W. Va., in about 1906. Pindelli began living common law with Agnes Vigilinti and shortly thereafter moved to Westmoreland County, Pa., and in particular Scottdale, Pa, where they resided for about 18 or 19 years. Six children were born in this common law relationship of which the xxx. Informat stated that in about 1927, while xxx at Scottdale, Pa., the Federal narcotics agents raided xxx home and arrested Mary Vigilinti and two boarders in the home, one Tobias Marfia, who served two years in a Federal penitentiary and was later deported, and Dominick Torchi (ph), who served three months in a Federal penitentiary. At the time of the arrest, no evidence was found connecting them with narcotics violations, but during the trial in Federal Court, Pittsburgh, where they were tried for conspiracy, a Federal Narcotics Bureau informant testified that he had purchased narcotics from them and all were found guilty. Pindelli was sentenced to three years and served 27 months and about 18 days in Atlanta and Leavenworth Penitentiaries and was later deported to Italy. Xxx Agnes Vigilinti was placed on probation for two years and later violated her probation and served two years at Alderson Federal Penitentiary for Women in W.Va. xxx Mary Vigilinti was sentenced to one year at Alderson.

The on-line tree of his wife has him deported between 1939 and 1940. FBI says 1931 and 1947. Friend of Vincent Tripodi.

SSN issued January 1941.,

FBI Airtel, 2/14/64, 124-10286-10301
Pindilli was deported from the US, and in 1964 he was residing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In connection with a request that he made for a visitor's visa, the FBI was contacted for their opinion on the matter, especially regarding what influence he may have in the "organization"in the US. The FBI felt that since he had been deported on two occasions, in 1931 and 1947, and had been denied re-entry on several occasions subsequent to that time, they felt that he had been away from the US for too long a period of time to be in a position to gain the full confidence of members of the Cleveland "organization". They said the individuals in control of Cleveland at that time most likely would not confide in him concerning their activities.
After this, an FBI informant advised the FBI that Ciccio Milano was in control of the Cleveland "organization" at the time Giuseppe was in the Cleveland area, who still exerted influence in Cleveland from his current location in Mexico. Prior to Pindilli's deportation in 1947, he was in constant contact through the US with members of the "organization", and to this day remains in contact through correspondence. The Pindilli family moved to Warren, Ohio, from Pennsylvania around 1933, and until his departure in 1947, Pindilli was in almost constant travel status for the "organization" through the United States. He supposedly still exerts influence.
The FBI concluded that he was harmless, but could possible be willing to exchange some info for a visitor's visa.

Someone in 124-10287-10241 alleged that Pindilli at some point gave refuge to Guy Volpe in his Scottdale home.

Deportation was November 20, 1947. 124-10286-10293

Pindilli was deported from the U.S. and is now residing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He still exerts some influence in the "organization" in the United States. On 1/26/64, a request was made of the FBI to contact either INS or the State Department for a visitor's visa for Pindilli.




Notes for Agata Maria Vigilante/Vigiolati:
Had a daughter, Mary, in addition to the children of Pandelli

Marriage License issued in Westmoreland Co. to Joe Pandaglio and Agata Vigiolati 5/13/1917.

1930 CENSUS WV Summers Co. Talcott, Federal Industrial Institute, ED 18 Sheet 4B
Agnes Pondaglio, 37, IT arr 1907, farm hand

1940 CENSUS OH Trumbull Co. Warren ED 78-29 Family 105, 249 Fulton St.
Agnes Pandelli, 47, IT
Raymond, 18, PA; Joe, 17, PA



Children of Giuseppe Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli and Agata Vigilante/Vigiolati are:
+ 2 i. Sebastiano Joseph "Benny"3 Pandelli, born March 04, 1912 in Carbondale, West Virginia; died August 01, 1982 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio.
3 ii. Josephine Pandelli, born September 07, 1915 in East Liverpool, Ohio; died October 22, 1991 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio. She married (1) William Lee. She married (2) James Anthony Maggiano Bet. 1930 - 1940; born December 02, 1914 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio; died September 16, 1991 in Seattle, King Co., Washington. She married (3) William Krantiz October 1955; born May 24, 1915 in Sharon, Mercer Co., Pa..

Notes for Josephine Pandelli:
JOSEPHINE PANDELLI LEE, 76, The Vindicator, Youngstown, Ohio, October 23, 1991
Warren - Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Peter Rossi Memorial Chapel for Mrs. Josephine Pandelli Lee, 76, of 2473 North Road N.E., Horizon Village, who died of cardiopulonary arrest early Tuesday at the village. Mrs. Lee was born Sept. 17, 1915, in East Liverpool, a daughter of Joseph and Agnes Vigilanti Pandelli and came to Warren in 1928. She was a secretary for the Bruss Lumber Co. and for Allied Builders. She was co-owner and co-operator of Billy Jo's Resort in Johnston for 10 years. She leaves three brothers, Frank of Lisbon, Raymond of Warren, and Joseph of Corland; and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Scalzo of Pittsburgh and Mrs. Marge Nicopolis of West Farmington. A brother Benny is deceased. Friends may call from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Marriage Notes for Josephine Pandelli and James Maggiano:
Divorce final March 22, 1955.

+ 4 iii. Frank F. "Slim" Pandelli, born December 25, 1917 in Scottdale, Westmoreland Co., Pa.; died February 03, 1995 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio.
+ 5 iv. Margaret Elizabeth Pandelli, born January 13, 1920 in Scottdale, Westmoreland Co., Pa.; died March 23, 1993 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio.
+ 6 v. Raymond Rocco Pandelli, born November 12, 1921 in Scottdale, Westmoreland Co., Pa.; died February 28, 1992 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio.
+ 7 vi. Joseph Robert Pandelli, born March 17, 1923 in Scottdale, Westmoreland Co., Pa.; died February 21, 2002 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio.


Generation No. 2

2. Sebastiano Joseph "Benny"3 Pandelli (Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born March 04, 1912 in Carbondale, West Virginia, and died August 01, 1982 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio. He married Jeanette Marie "Elsie" DeLuca December 22, 1934. She was born November 10, 1915 in Pennsylvania, and died August 18, 1984 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio.

Notes for Sebastiano Joseph "Benny" Pandelli:
Involved with brother Ray in a 1940 robbery case.
Arrested in 1968 for possession of illegal firearms.

NAB SIX WOMEN IN 'LODGE' RAID, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 17, 1961
Washington, Pa., July 16 - State police arrested nine persons, including six women, in a raid last night on a posh bordello in a former hunting and fishing lodge on King's Creek Road, Hanover Township, near Florence.
The raiding party, made up of six officers from Carnegie Barracks and two from Washington Barracks, struck about 11:55 p.m. Sgt. Julius A. Trombetta, of Carnegie Barracks, who led the raiders, said his men had been watching the place, King's Lake Lodge, for four days from a wooded area. Prior to the raid four state policemen in plainclothes were admitted to the Lodge after posing as visitors. After they were solicited by women occupants, the rest of the police moved in, Sgt. Trombetta said.
Benny J. Pandelli, 49, of Warren, O., was arrested on charges of operating a disorderly house and pandering. His brother, Frank F. Pandelli, 44, also of Warren, was charged with visiting a disorderly house. Frank claimed he was only visiting his brother. Benny at first denied any connection with the place but ten said that he was just "an overseer," Trombetta said.
One of six women in the lodge, Rita Anderson, 23, of Canton, O., attempted to assume responsibility, claiming she rented it for $250 a month, Trombetta said. She and the other women were charged with prostitution and assignation, Trombetta added. They were identified as Tina Marria Shell, 22, and Tamara O'Day, 26, both of 1700 Brighton Road, Northside; Carmella Davis, 22, of 2302 Fifth Ave., Uptown; Jacqueline Wilson, 26, of Baum Boulevard; and Margaret Jones, of 1733 Webster Ave., Hill District. The Jones woman said she was a maid at the Lodge.
Another suspect arrested, Arthur P. Goodman, 2, of Steubenville, O., claimed he was the janitor. He was charged with visiting a disorderly house.

RAID NABS SIX WOMEN AT FLORENCE, Evening Standard, Uniontown, Pa., July 17, 1961
A state police raid at nearby Florence, in Washington County, had resulted in the arrest of six women on charges of prostitutin. Three men also were arrested in the raid Saturday at King's Lake Lodge, a plush former hunting and fishing lodge on King's Creek Road in Hanover Twp. Sgt. Julius Trombetta, who led the raid, said police had been watching the lodge for four days from a wooded area.
Charged with prostitution were Rita Anderson, 23, of Canton, Ohio; Tina Maria Shell, 22, Tamara O'Day, 26, Carmella Davis, 22, Jacqueline Wilson, 26, and Margaret Jones, 30, all of Pittsburgh. Benny J. Pandelli, 49, of Warren, Ohio, was charged with operating a disorderly house. His brother, Frank, 44, and Arthur Goodman, 22, of Steubenville, Ohio, were charged with visiting a disorderly house. [This case is mentioned in JFK 124-10220-10435]

Charged with operating a disordderly house outside of Steubenville in 1962.

CHARGES AGAINST TWO QUASHED, Evening Standard, Uniontown, Pa., September 12, 1963
President Judge Eustace H. Bane this morning sustained a demurer throwing out charges of burglary, larceny, possession of burglary tools and conspiracy against Benny J. Pandelli of Warren, Ohio and Glena Ileen Brady, of Wheeling, W.Va. The judge ruled insufficient evidence. He reduced similar charges against Robert Holbrook of Niles, Ohio, to attempt to commit burglary and possession of burglary tools. The three had been arrested after an attempted burglary at the Connellsville Elks Home. Connellsville police officers testified yesterday as to the arrest of the three near the home in a bullet-punctuated capture. [Holbrook was found guilty of attempted burglary.]

BENNY J. PANDELLI, Youngstown Vindicator, August 2, 1982
Warren - Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in St. James Church for Benny J. Pandelli, 70, of 1380 Arbor S.E., who died at 6:15 p.m. Sunday in Trumbull Memorial Hospital. Mr. Pandelli was born March 4, 1912, in Carbondale [Fayette Co.], W.Va., a son of Joseph and Agnes Vigilanti Bavanese Pandelli. He came to Warren in 1930 where he was a member of the church. He leaves his wife, the former Elsie DeLuca, whom he married Dec. 22, 1934; his mother of Warren; two daughters, Mrs. Ann Long of Warren and Mrs. Mary Rosile of Hubbard; three brothers, Frank of Lisbon and Raymond and Joseph, both of Warren; three sisters, Mrs. Josephine Lee of Johnston, Mrs. Margaret Nicopolis of Soughington and Mrs. Mary Scalzo of Pittsburgh, Pa.; four grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Peter Rossi and Son Memorial Chapel.

CV 344-C

More About Sebastiano Joseph "Benny" Pandelli:
Burial: Hubbard Union Cemetery, Hubbard, Trumbull Co., Ohio

More About Jeanette Marie "Elsie" DeLuca:
Burial: Hubbard Union Cemetery, Hubbard, Trumbull Co., Ohio

Children of Sebastiano Pandelli and Jeanette DeLuca are:
+ 8 i. Anna Margaret4 Pandelli, born October 16, 1936 in Trumbull Co., Ohio.
+ 9 ii. Mary Agnes "Mix" Pandelli, born March 30, 1939 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio; died December 11, 2006 in Youngstown, Mahoning Co., Ohio.


4. Frank F. "Slim"3 Pandelli (Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born December 25, 1917 in Scottdale, Westmoreland Co., Pa., and died February 03, 1995 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio. He married Anna Cousimano, daughter of John Cousimano and Rose Schiffiler. She was born February 09, 1916 in Los Angeles, California, and died April 09, 2003.

Notes for Frank F. "Slim" Pandelli:
In 1940, residing at Los Angeles, California. Perhaps also South Gate, California.

Child of Frank Pandelli and Anna Cousimano is:
10 i. Ronald Joseph4 Pandelli, born October 11, 1943 in Los Angeles Co., California. He married Gayle A. (Pandelli) May 04, 1968 in Los Angeles Co., California; born Abt. 1944.


5. Margaret Elizabeth3 Pandelli (Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born January 13, 1920 in Scottdale, Westmoreland Co., Pa., and died March 23, 1993 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio. She married (1) George Thomas Nicopolis July 02, 1938, son of Anastassios Nicopoulos and Eleni Panagoulakos. He was born April 23, 1916 in Manchester, New Hampshire, and died May 17, 2010. She married (2) Chris T. Nicopolis October 27, 1976 in Trumbull Co., Ohio, son of Thomas Nicopolis and Helen Generakis. He was born May 27, 1928 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio.

Notes for Margaret Elizabeth Pandelli:
MARGARET E. NICOPOLIS, 73, The Vindicator, March 24, 1993
West Farmington - Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in St. William Church for Mrs. Margaret E. Nicolpolis, 73, of 5050 Strou-Hickox Road, who died early Tuesday in Warren General Hospital after a long illness. Mrs. Nicopolis, who was known as "Marge," was born Jan. 13, 1920, in Scottsdale, Pa., a daughter of Joseph and Agnes Vigilanti Pandelli, and came to the Warren area in 1928, moving to West Farmington 15 years ago. She was a homemaker and a member of the church, and enjoyed music, bowling and golfing. Besides her aunt who reared her, Mrs. Mary Nicosia of Warren, she leaves her husband, Chris, whom she married Oct. 27, 1976; three sons, Thomas of Las Vegas, Nev., and Joseph and DAvid, both of Warren; a daughter, Mrs. Maria REed of Champion; two brothers, Joseph Pandelli of Cortland and Frank Pandelli of Lisbon; a sister, Mrs. Mary Scalzo of Pittsburgh; 14 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Two brothers, Benny and Raymond Pandelli, and a sister, Mrs. Josephine Lee, are deceased. Friends may call fro 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Peter Rossi & Son Memorial Home, and for one hour before services in the church on Friday.

More About Margaret Elizabeth Pandelli:
Burial: All Souls Cemetery, Cortland, Trumbull Co., Ohio

Notes for George Thomas Nicopolis:
George T. Nicopolis was 94, of Champion, when he passed away Monday, May 17, 2010, at St. Joseph Health Center.

He was born April 23, 1916, in Manchester, New Hampshire, the son of Thomas and Helena Gianarkos Nicopolis, and came to Warren in 1918.

He retired from Copperweld Steel Co., where he worked 35 years as a craneman. He enjoyed music, gardening, fishing and watching TV.

Survivors include his 3 children, 13 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, and brother Chris Nicopolis.

He was preceded in death by a son, Thomas Nicopolis; his parents, Thomas and Helena Nicopolis; his sisters, Mary Kratsas, Athena Raphtis, Sophia Jarvis, Jennie Charles and Stella Contratos; and his brothers, Stephen Nicopolis and Theodore ''Ted'' Nicopolis Sr.

Services will be at Peter Rossi & Son Memorial Chapel, Warren, with Pastor Ken Hopkins officiating. Friends may call from 6 to 8 pm. Thursday and 10:30 to 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Burial will be in All Souls Cemetery.

More About George Thomas Nicopolis:
Burial: All Souls Cemetery, Cortland, Trumbull Co., Ohio

Children of Margaret Pandelli and George Nicopolis are:
+ 11 i. Thomas George4 Nicopolis, born May 27, 1940 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio; died November 23, 1998 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio.
+ 12 ii. Joseph Robert Nicopolis, born June 15, 1943 in Warren, Ohio.
+ 13 iii. David Lynn Nicopolis, born February 28, 1950 in Warren, Ohio.
+ 14 iv. Maria Elena Nicopolis, born June 03, 1953 in Warren, Ohio.


6. Raymond Rocco3 Pandelli (Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born November 12, 1921 in Scottdale, Westmoreland Co., Pa., and died February 28, 1992 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio. He met Eloise Olstad.

Notes for Raymond Rocco Pandelli:
VICTIMS IDENTIFY HOLDUP SUSPECTS
New Castle News
March 27, 1940

Warren, O., March 27 - Identified by 16 of the 28 victims of the Evergreen Café holdup of early Friday, when gunmen spent three hours robbing and binding their victims, three men in City Jail face serious charges. Frank Rocco, 24, of Beaver Falls, Pa., and Ray Pandelli, 18, of Warren, are charged with robbing an inhabited dwelling with arms, on which conviction may mean a life sentence. Ben Pandelli, 28, is charged with armed robbery.
Ralph Batten, Youngstown photographer, shot when he resisted a holdup in Mill Creek Park, Feb. 18, and a New Brighton (Pa.) man shot in a $700 pay roll robbery there, also identified Rocco as the triggerman who fired upon them, Prosecutor Paul J. Rengan said today. The Youngstown and New Brighton men picked him from a police line-up this afternoon.
A fourth member of the gang who escaped, is being sought in Youngstown, Beaver Falls and Pittsburgh.

In 1945, residing at Los Angeles, California.

Accused of a stabbing in1955.

May have been a PCI for the FBI in 1963. More probably his brother Benny.

WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC ARRESTS INVOLVE 10
Lima News, Lima
Ohio, May 25, 1974

Cleveland, Ohio (AP) - Ten persons have been arrested in connection with a white slave ring operating in Ohio, West Virginia and New York, the FBI said Friday. It said federal warrants have been issued for seven other persons in Ohio and West Virginia.
Frederick C. Fehl, special agent in charge of the Cleveland FBI office, said warrants for all 17 persons were issued by U.S. District Judge Robert Krupansky after they were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury here. He said the indictments charge the 17 with a total of 90 counts of violating the federal white slave traffic act, interstate transportation in aid of racketeering for prostitution and conspiracy. Fehl said the women were transported from the Warren area in Ohio to work in houses of prostitution in Wheeling, W.Va., St. Clairsville and Steubenville in Ohio and Rochester and Buffalo in New York.
He identified those arrested as Frank DeAngelo, 59; John B. Tidwell, 25; Raymond R. Pandelli, 52; and Eloise Olstead, 39, all of Warren; Alfred Pincione, 43, of Canfield; Carla Dellerba, 49, of Canton; James E. Rivers, 27, of Conneaut; Ann Marie Maselli, 25, of St. Clairsville; Judith Jordan, 50, of Steubenville, and Donna Wilson, 30, of Rochester, N.Y.

RAYMOND R. PANDELLI, The Vindicator, Youngstown, Ohio, March 2, 1992
Warren - Services were today at Peter Rossi & Son Memorial Chapel for Raymond R. Pandelli, 70, of 700 Buckeye N.W., who died of a heart attack Friday afternoon in Warren General Hospital. Mr. Pandelli was born Nov. 12, 1921, in Scottdale, Pa., a son of Joseph and Agnes Vigilanti Pandelli, and came to Warren in 1928. He was a World War Ii Army veteran. He was a machinest in the heat treatment department at Copperweld Steel Corp. and worked for Mullins Manufacturing. He enjoyed fishing and cooking. He leaves a son, Raymond F., of Kent; two brothers, Joseph of Cortland and Frank of Lisbon; and two sisters, Mrs. Marge Nicopolis of West Farmington and Mrs. Mary Scalzo of Pittsburgh. One brother, Benny, and one sister, Mrs. Josephine Lee, are deceased.

Notes for Eloise Olstad:
According to his Ohio death record, Raymond was never married. Last name may be Olstead, born around 1935.

Child of Raymond Pandelli and Eloise Olstad is:
15 i. Raymond F. "Nunnie"4 Pandelli.


7. Joseph Robert3 Pandelli (Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born March 17, 1923 in Scottdale, Westmoreland Co., Pa., and died February 21, 2002 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio. He married Lucy Chalop February 07, 1948 in Trumbull Co., Ohio. She was born April 02, 1930, and died November 26, 2010.

Children of Joseph Pandelli and Lucy Chalop are:
+ 16 i. Milo Gene "Geno"4 Pandelli, born Abt. 1949.
+ 17 ii. Joseph Rocco "Rocky" Pandelli, born April 15, 1950 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio; died November 20, 2020.
18 iii. Darlene "Susie B" Pandelli, born October 09, 1957 in Trumbull Co., Ohio; died October 28, 1967 in Warren, Ohio.

Notes for Darlene "Susie B" Pandelli:
Died of Pneumonia. Born with Downs Syndrome.


Generation No. 3

8. Anna Margaret4 Pandelli (Sebastiano Joseph "Benny"3, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born October 16, 1936 in Trumbull Co., Ohio. She married (1) Joseph E. Long January 17, 1959. He was born September 18, 1935. She married (2) Raymond Gutierrez 1970, son of Alex Gutierrez and Rose Fiordella. He was born June 03, 1930 in Youngstown, Mahoning Co., Ohio.

Children of Anna Pandelli and Joseph Long are:
+ 19 i. Benny Joe5 Long, born July 31, 1959.
+ 20 ii. Joseph V. Long, born November 14, 1961.


9. Mary Agnes "Mix"4 Pandelli (Sebastiano Joseph "Benny"3, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born March 30, 1939 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and died December 11, 2006 in Youngstown, Mahoning Co., Ohio. She married John Joseph Rosile October 11, 1958 in Trumbull Co., Ohio. He was born January 29, 1938 in Hubbard, Ohio.

More About Mary Agnes "Mix" Pandelli:
Burial: Hubbard Union Cemetery, Hubbard, Trumbull Co., Ohio

Children of Mary Pandelli and John Rosile are:
21 i. John J.5 Rosile, born July 09, 1960 in Ohio; died June 20, 2004 in Trumbull Co., Ohio.
+ 22 ii. Lisa Rosile.


11. Thomas George4 Nicopolis (Margaret Elizabeth3 Pandelli, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born May 27, 1940 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and died November 23, 1998 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio. He married (1) Doreen (Nicopolis). He married (2) Sherry Walters July 11, 1988.

Notes for Thomas George Nicopolis:
THOMAS G. NICOPOLIS,The Vindicator, November 24, 1998
Warren - Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Peter Rossi & Son Memorial Chapel for Thomas G. Nicopolis, 58, of 1855 Ferndale Ave. S.W., who died of a heart ailment Monday morning at his residence. Mr. Nicopolis was born May 27, 1940, in Warren, a son of George T. and Margaret Pandelli Nicopolis. A1958 graduate of Warren G. Harding High School, he retired in 1974 from Anchor Motor Freight Inc., where he was a truck driver for five years, and had previously worked at Republic Steel Corp. 10 years as a bundler. He was a member of NAUS Club and Army & Navy 534. Besides his father of Warren, he leaves his wife, the former Sherry Walters, whom he married July 11, 1988; two sons, Thomas L. of Akron and Gregory E. of Kenosha, Wis.; a step-daughter, Mrs. Rochelle Stevenson of Las Vegas, Nev.; two brothers, Joseph R. of Cortland and David L. of Fort Myers, Fla.; a sister, Mrs. Maria Reed of Champion; and five grandchildren. His mother is deceased. Friends may call from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

Children of Thomas Nicopolis and Doreen (Nicopolis) are:
+ 23 i. Thomas Lynn5 Nicopolis.
24 ii. Gregory E. Nicopolis.


12. Joseph Robert4 Nicopolis (Margaret Elizabeth3 Pandelli, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born June 15, 1943 in Warren, Ohio. He married Virglee Rigel May 05, 1962 in Warren, Ohio. She was born November 23, 1944 in Warren, Ohio.

Children of Joseph Nicopolis and Virglee Rigel are:
+ 25 i. Mark Allen5 Nicopolis, born November 18, 1962 in Warren, Ohio.
+ 26 ii. Robert Joseph Nicopolis, born January 17, 1965 in Warren, Ohio.
+ 27 iii. Lynn Marie Nicopolis, born February 27, 1969 in Warren, Ohio.


13. David Lynn4 Nicopolis (Margaret Elizabeth3 Pandelli, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born February 28, 1950 in Warren, Ohio. He married (1) Janet Myers. He married (2) Patty Karr. He married (3) Karen Lester.

Child of David Nicopolis and Janet Myers is:
28 i. David Lynn5 Nicopolis.


Children of David Nicopolis and Patty Karr are:
29 i. Patrick G.5 Nicopolis.
30 ii. Christopher Nicopolis.
31 iii. David Karr.
32 iv. Jim Karr.


14. Maria Elena4 Nicopolis (Margaret Elizabeth3 Pandelli, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born June 03, 1953 in Warren, Ohio. She married Steven C. Reed. He was born July 10, 1953.

Children of Maria Nicopolis and Steven Reed are:
+ 33 i. Heather5 Reed, born in Warren, Ohio.
34 ii. Steven T. Reed.
35 iii. Michael C. Reed, born July 10, 1986.


16. Milo Gene "Geno"4 Pandelli (Joseph Robert3, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born Abt. 1949. She married John J. Saunders October 26, 1974 in Mahoning Co., Ohio. He was born Abt. 1940.

Children of Milo Pandelli and John Saunders are:
36 i. Jemma5 Saunders.
37 ii. Janessa Saunders.


17. Joseph Rocco "Rocky"4 Pandelli (Joseph Robert3, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born April 15, 1950 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio, and died November 20, 2020. He married Louisa Modesta Baragona July 23, 1971 in Trumbull Co., Ohio. She was born March 18, 1950 in Warren, Trumbull Co., Ohio.

Notes for Joseph Rocco "Rocky" Pandelli:


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Joseph Rocco Pandelli
April 15, 1950 ~ November 20, 2020 (age 70)
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Obituary

Joseph Rocco Pandelli, 70, of Warren, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, November 20, 2020 at 6:15 pm after a very courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.

Rocky, as he was known to friends, was born in Warren on April 15, 1950, the son of the late Joseph and Lucy Pandelli.

He was a 1968 graduate from Warren Western Reserve High School. Rocky retired from the U.S. Post Office after working for many years as a postal carrier in Niles and later as a clerk in Warren.

Rocky was a Born-Again Christian. He was a man that loved God and never minced words. A man of few words but the impact was always profound.

Rocky was proud of his Italian Heritage and began learning the Italian Language with the help of his loving wife. He loved to research and study history. In his spare time, he could be found in his garden or cooking in the kitchen for his family. Most important he loved his family, especially his grandchildren who were the joy of his life. Rocky will be deeply missed by many family and friends.

He is survived by his loving wife of 49 years, Louisa Baragona Pandelli, who he married on July 23, 1971; his son Joey (Molly) Pandelli of Streetsboro; his sister Gina Mordecki of Liberty; his daughters-in-law Betheny and Irene; and 5 grandchildren, Annabella, Hailey, Jojo, Rocco, and Fiona.

In addition to his parents, Rocky was preceded in death by 2 sons, Sergio and Josiah, and his sister Susie B.

Friends and family may view the obituary and send condolences by visiting www.NicholasFuneralHome.com

A special thank you to family and friends for all their love, support, and prayers and to MVI Hospice for the wonderful care they gave.

John 14:1-6 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

At Rocky’s request there will be no calling hours or funeral service.

Arrangements have been entrusted to the Wm Nicholas Funeral Home & Cremation Services 614 Warren Ave. Niles, OH 44446.

Child of Joseph Pandelli and Louisa Baragona is:
38 i. Sergio Joseph5 Pandelli, died January 14, 2006.

Notes for Sergio Joseph Pandelli:
Sergio Joseph Pandelli Sergio Joseph Pandelli, 34, went to be with the Lord on January 14, 2006. He fought a long, hard, brave, and heroic battle with leukemia. Through it all, he never once complained but rather was concerned more for his family. The compassionate and loving heart of this husband, father, son, and brother will forever leave a hole in our hearts and lives forever. Our lives were made richer by his presence and his true faith in God inspired us all and brought us closer to the Lord. He is survived by his wife, Irene Pandelli, beautiful daughter, Annabella Pandelli, parents Rocky and Louisa Pandelli, brothers Josiah and Joey Pandelli, grandmothers Lucy Pandelli and Tina Baragona, uncles Dominic and Tony Baragona, aunt Gina Mordecki, mother-in-law Amelia Murillo, and countless friends and family. He was born and raised in Warren, Ohio and later moved to Arizona where he graduated from Arizona State University. He is remembered by his friends and family as a man that never had a bad or deceitful intension about or towards anyone. A true saint and a true spirit. Honey, you are now in the most beautiful place and you are healed! God Bless You! Visitation will be held on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 from 5 to 8 pm at Heritage Funeral Chapel 6830 W Thunderbird Rd., Peoria, AZ with a memorial service at 7 p.m.. Burial will be held in Ohio. Remembrances in Sergio's name may be given to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society 2990 E Northern Ave. Suite E-100 Phoenix, AZ 85028.


Generation No. 4

19. Benny Joe5 Long (Anna Margaret4 Pandelli, Sebastiano Joseph "Benny"3, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born July 31, 1959.

Children of Benny Joe Long are:
39 i. Daniel S.6 Long, born December 31, 1989.
40 ii. Benny J. Long, born January 25, 1993.


20. Joseph V.5 Long (Anna Margaret4 Pandelli, Sebastiano Joseph "Benny"3, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born November 14, 1961. He married Sherri Soda. She was born July 02, 1962.

Children of Joseph Long and Sherri Soda are:
41 i. Joseph V.6 Long, born November 04, 1980.
42 ii. Sabrina Long, born March 18, 1992.


22. Lisa5 Rosile (Mary Agnes "Mix"4 Pandelli, Sebastiano Joseph "Benny"3, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) She married Daniel Hosack.

Child of Lisa Rosile and Daniel Hosack is:
43 i. Gabriella6 Hosack.


23. Thomas Lynn5 Nicopolis (Thomas George4, Margaret Elizabeth3 Pandelli, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) He married Susan (Nicopolis).

Child of Thomas Nicopolis and Susan (Nicopolis) is:
44 i. Tiana6 Nicopolis.


25. Mark Allen5 Nicopolis (Joseph Robert4, Margaret Elizabeth3 Pandelli, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born November 18, 1962 in Warren, Ohio. He married Elizabeth Ann Stuard April 12, 1991. She was born April 20, 1966.

Child of Mark Nicopolis and Elizabeth Stuard is:
45 i. Margaret Elizabeth6 Nicopolis, born October 23, 1991.


26. Robert Joseph5 Nicopolis (Joseph Robert4, Margaret Elizabeth3 Pandelli, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born January 17, 1965 in Warren, Ohio. He married Shirley Ann Williams June 28, 1986 in Hartford, Ohio. She was born March 09, 1965.

Children of Robert Nicopolis and Shirley Williams are:
46 i. Joseph Robert6 Nicopolis, born December 13, 1988.
47 ii. Ashley Marie Nicopolis, born May 19, 1992.


27. Lynn Marie5 Nicopolis (Joseph Robert4, Margaret Elizabeth3 Pandelli, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born February 27, 1969 in Warren, Ohio. She married (1) Michael Webb. He was born June 24, 1969. She married (2) Kenneth Steven Poltar October 14, 2000 in New Hill, North Carolina. He was born May 29, 1967 in Sharon, Mercer Co., Pa..

Child of Lynn Nicopolis and Michael Webb is:
48 i. Brandon Michael6 Webb, born February 19, 1987.


33. Heather5 Reed (Maria Elena4 Nicopolis, Margaret Elizabeth3 Pandelli, Giuseppe2 Pindilli/Pandaglio/Pandelli, Vestiano1 Pandaglio/Pandelli) was born in Warren, Ohio. She married Leslie Hathaway.

Children of Heather Reed and Leslie Hathaway are:
49 i. Michelina6 Hathaway.
50 ii. Kalina Hathaway, born 2001.

Stefano Monastero- @B…Do you have Birthplace for Pietro who was executed in New Orleans?

Descendants of Pietro Monastero


Generation No. 1

1. Pietro1 Monastero was born in Italy, and died Abt. 1894 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He married Giuseppa Gianfortone. She was born Abt. 1861 in Italy, and died Aft. September 1912.

Notes for Giuseppa Gianfortone:
Arrived in US Sept. 29, 1912.

Children of Pietro Monastero and Giuseppa Gianfortone are:
2 i. Lorito2 Monastero, born Abt. 1881 in Caccamo, Palermo, Sicily; died Aft. 1914.

Notes for Lorito Monastero:
Arrived in the US aboard the SS Regina D'Italia, out of Palermo, October, 1910. He was 30, single, a priest, from Caccamo, Palermo. His mother Giuseppina Gianfortone, resided in Caccamo. He was traveling to Pittsburgh, to join his brother, Salvatore Monastero, of 919 East St. Never in US before. Born in Caccamo. Possibly traveling with two others from Caccamo, both headed to Carnegie, Salvatore Catalano, 33, a shoemaker, and Simone Gagliano, 22, a merchant.

He apparently went back to Sicily, and then in September 1912 returned to the US aboard the SS Martha Washington out of Palermo. He was listed as 32, a priest. He was traveling with his mother, Giuseppa Gianfortone, 52, a widow, and his sister, Providenza Monastero, 30, single, both of Caccamo, Palermo. All three were traveling to join Salvatore and Stefano Monastero, 919 East St., Pittsburgh. Lorito had been in Pittsburgh previously.

AEROPLANE OFFICERS ARRESTED, The Pittsburgh Press, July 7, 1914
Following a meeting of several hundred stockholders of the "Italian Aeroplane Co." held last night in McGeagh hall in Webster ave., Louis Maida and M. Loretio Manasterio [Monastero] were arrested and charged with failure to show the books of the company. The company is said to have been organized about nine months ago and scores of Italians in the Hill district bought $1 shares in the concern. Peter Angelo, a former city detective, was made head of the company shortly after its organization. Announcements were made that one of the company's machines would make flights at Brunots Island July 4, but the flight did not take place. Maida and Manasterio were committed to the county jail charged with embezzlement and will receive a hearing before Alderman John A. Martin.

MOTHER DEAD FROM BULLET SHOT AT GIRL, The Gazette Times, September 1, 1914
A series of tragedies in the family of Mrs. Angeline Casile, aged 52, of 954 Reedsdale street, culminated last night, when Mrs. Casile was shot dead in her home. The man charged with the killing is Loretto Monastero, aged 28, of 919 East street, who has recently made himself conspicuous as the manager of an Italian aeroplane company and as such was arrested for swindling.
Monastero was at one time a priest. He was ordained in Italy and came to this country bout three years ago and in some way obtained permission from the bishop to celebrate mass. He presented himself to the priests of St. Peter's Church on the North Side, in which parish he lived and from them obtained permission to perform the priestly functions at the altar. He celebrated mass there about six times, it was learned at St. Peter's Church last night, and then he bade the priests good-bye and explained that he intended to return to Italy. About a year ago he again applied for permission to say mass but the request was refused.
The shooting of the Casile woman last night was the outcome of Monastero's infatuation for the woman's daughter, the divorced wife of the priest's brother, Stefano Monastero. The girl, Rosa Casile, aged 19, in an interview after the shooting, charged the man with having committed the crime. She explained that Monastero had forced his attentions on her for more than a year, after she had obtained a divorce from his brother. Failing to reply to his letters, she said, caused him to threaten to shoot her several times. Yesterday morning Monastero visited her in the department store where she is employed and annoyed her with his attentions for more than two hours. To rid herself of his attentions, she promised to consider his suit. Leaving the store it was learned he called on the girl's mother, where he was taken to task for calling without an invitation.
At 5:30 o'clock last night he again visited the Casile family, the girl explained. He entered the front door of the house and walked to the rear and saw the girl and her mother in the back yard. Monastero called to Rosa, but she refused to respond. She declared that she and her mother saw him display a revolver, and when her mothers flung herself between her and the weapon Monastero fired two shots. They struck the woman in the back and she died almost instantly.
Monastero ran through the house and into the street. Carmelo Castile, a brother of the girl, heard the reports of the revolver and ran after the fleeing Monastero. After a spring of several blocks, in which many neighbors took part, Monastero was captured.
In the meantime, a report of the shooting had reached the Allegheny Police Station and Special Officers John Beck and M. J. Feeney brought Monastero to the station house. Two of his brothers, Stefano and Samuel Monastero, the former the divorced husband of the girl, were locked up as witnesses.
Until nine years ago the Castile family was more than ordinarily prosperous. Then the father, grown despondent over business troubles, drowned himself in the Allegheny River. Last June the widow received several Black Hand letters in which demands for money were made. She failed to reply to them and a stick of dynamite exploded in her home and almost completely wrecked the dwelling.

MURDERER IN CELL ESCAPED FROM POLICE, The Pittsburgh Press, September 1, 1914
Like a magician on a darkened state, Lorito Monastero, murderer, passed through locked and barred doors at the Allegheny police station about 4 o'clock this morning and is now being sought by police and detectives of this and other cities. The door of his cell was found open, but other doors supposed to be kept locked were found unlocked after the prisoner disappeared.
Following the murder of Mrs. Angeline Casale, of 954 Reesdale st., Northside, last night, Monastero was arrested. He was a prisoner in the police station about 10 hours when he asked for a drink and while the turnkey was getting the water, Monastero vanished.
Monastero, when taken to the police station last evening, was placed in No. 1 cell. The lock on this cell has been defective for several months and it is said was reported defective as long as six months ago. There are 18 cells in the two ranges, the locks on all of which except No. 1 are in good working condition, it is said. It is declared the range lock on No. 1 cell is in perfect working condition, but the individual lock fails in the purpose for which it was constructed.
Shortly before 4 a.m. Monastero asked for water and Sergt. Clarence Hutchison, on duty in the cell room, supplied him with the water. The sergeant then walked to the courtroom and conversed with Serft. Michael Brown for a few minutes. As Hutchison was returning to the cell room, he noticed the outside door of the station open. It is through this door that prisoners are admitted to the prison.
The outside door is a piece of sheet steel. It is usually kept locked but it is said it binds against the frame in several places and it is hard to open and close it. The outside door was open only a few inches, but the sergeant, suspecting something was amiss, rushed into the cell room and discovered that Monastero had fled. The door of his cell was a few inches ajar. The barred door between the cell room and the receiving room had not been closed.
As soon as the disappearance of Monastero was noted, police officials were summoned. Supt. Of Police W. N. Matthews, Commissioner P. P. Walsh of the Allegheny station and a score of more plain clothes men and secret service operatives appeared.
It has not yet been determined whether the sheet steel door, leading from the receiving room to the outside, was closed securely when the last prisoner was received. An intoxicated prisoner was taken in the police station at 2:30 a.m., but whether the door was securely locked at the time has not been learned. The sergeant did not notice anything wrong until 4 o'clock.
Her determination to end alleged attentions paid to her daughter, a divorcee, is believed to have been the cause of the murder last evening of Mrs. Casale, aged 52, of 954 Reedsdale st., Northside, who was mortally wounded in the doorway of her kitchen. Monastero, said to be the president of the Italian Aeroplane Co. of Pittsburg, was captured after an exciting chase by men in an automobile, following the murder.
The police version is that the shooting was the culmination of Monastero's efforts to marry Rosie Casale, the dead woman's daughter, and the divorced wife of his brother, Stephen Monastero. According to Rosie Casale, Lorito Monastero went to the downtown store in which he works, yesterday, and her efforts to have him leave her were futile. Later he left the store. When she reached her home in the evening she learned that her alleged suitor had called upon her mother. It is averred that Mrs. Casale threatened suicide yesterday afternoon if Lorito Monastero did not cease his attentions toward her daughter. During the man's visit to the house there is said to have been an altercation between him and Mrs. Casale occasioned by the mother's admission that she had read certain letters written to Rosie by Lorito. The latter is said to have been trying to induce the daughter to elope with him ever since her divorce from his brother, and her former husband, she says, also attempted to persuader her to return to him.
Last June the home of Mrs. Casale was partially wrecked by a bomb. For several weeks previous she had been receiving Black Hand letters demanding $500, with which demand she failed to comply. Carmell Casale, her husband, committed suicide several years ago by jumping into the Allegheny River.
The woman's daughter declares that she wrote letters to Lorito Monastero because she was afraid of him.
Monastero, in a cell, declared he shot to save his own life, and that three shots were fired at him from a window of the Casale home. The police have not been able to discover any witnesses to substantiate this statement.


Lorito Monastero killed the mother-in-law of Steve Monastero in 1914 when she opposed his suit for the hand of Steve's divorced wife. Lorito was arrested the day of the killing but mysteriously walked out of the Northside police station the same day he was arrested, He was recaptured, brought to trial and declared insane. He was sent to Woodville, where he remained only a few months, when he again walked away. His escape was kept secret for two months. He has never been heard of since. Steve later remarried his former wife. (PPG 1930)

3 ii. Providenza Monastero, born Abt. 1883 in Sicily; died Aft. 1930.

Notes for Providenza Monastero:
Arrived in US Sept. 29, 1912.

+ 4 iii. Salvatore "Sam" Monastero, born May 05, 1887 in Caccamo, Palermo, Sicily; died March 18, 1930 in Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa..
+ 5 iv. Stefano Giuseppe Monastero, born March 05, 1889 in Caccamo, Palermo, Sicily; died August 06, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..


Generation No. 2

4. Salvatore "Sam"2 Monastero (Pietro1) was born May 05, 1887 in Caccamo, Palermo, Sicily, and died March 18, 1930 in Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married Frances Duca Abt. 1908, daughter of Antonio Duca and Concetta Pantalone. She was born Abt. 1893 in Sicily, and died Aft. 1936.

Notes for Salvatore "Sam" Monastero:
1909 Monastero Saml grocer 1278 Ridge av A

1910 CENSUS PA Allegheny C Pittsburgh Ward 26 ED 595 Family 177 919 East St
Samul Monastero, 23, m1 2y, IT IT IT, arr 1903, retail fruit merchant
Frances, 22, m1 2y, no children, IT IT It, arr 1903

1920 CENSUS PA Allegheny C Pittsburgh Ward 22 226 Sandusky St ED 682 Family 25
Samuel Monastero, 33, SIC SIC SIC, arr 1903 na, grocery storekeeper
Frances, 27, SIC SIC SIC; Josephine, 8; Concettina, 7; Provenza, sister, 37

By 1927, president of the Pittsburgh Fruit Exchange Co. Inc., residing at 39 Perry View Ave. Robert Garioto was vice pres., and George Leone was secretary. It was a wholesale fruit company located at 2006 Pike St.

RACKETEERING ENDS FOR MONASTERO, Indiana Evening Gazette, Indiana, Pa., March 19, 1930
Pittsburgh, March 19 (INS) - Sam Monastero, reputedly powerful bootleg syndicate baron, is through with racketing "the stuff." For Sam is dead. Rival racketeers "got" him last night. Not in the approved "spot" manner. Sam was garroted. His crumpled body was found behind the wheel of his new blue coupe. A dirty towel, bearing fingerprints, was twisted tightly about his neck. His death marks the second fatality in the Monastero clan in less than a year. Steven Monastero, his brother, was killed last August 6. Steve, however, "went out" in regular fashion, with the roar of sawed off shotguns and the staccato whine of chattering automatics as his requiem. Sam fell heir to Steve's rich bootleg supply business. His death leaves no doubt that he also fell heir to Steve's enemies.

DEATH CERTIFICATE, File No. 24719
Primary Registration District No. 02-03-61 Registered No. 59
Place of death: Ross Twp., Allegheny Co.
Full name: Sam Monastero
Date of death: March 18, 1930
Residence: in Jacks Run, near Bellevue
White, married male, spouse of Francs Duca
Born May 5, 1887 in Italy. Parents names unknown, both born Italy.
Occupation: produce dealer
Cause of death: Strangulation due to having neck tie pulled around neck. Probably murder
39 Perryview Ave., City
Buried in N.S. Catholic Cemetery
Information for death certificate given by Samuel Duca, 29 Perryview Ave., Pgh., Pa.

More About Salvatore "Sam" Monastero:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Notes for Frances Duca:
1930 CENSUS PA Allegheny C Pittsburgh Ward 26 ED 450 Family 30, 39 Perryview Ave
Frances Monestero, 37, m at 15, IT, arr 1910
Josephine, 18; Constance, 17; Providence, sil, 46; Constance Duca, mother, 70, m at 15, IT, arr 1910; Samuel, 34, IT, arr 1910,
barber

Children of Salvatore Monastero and Frances Duca are:
6 i. Josephine3 Monastero, born Abt. 1912; died August 13, 1937 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio.
7 ii. Constance Monastero, born Abt. 1913.


5. Stefano Giuseppe2 Monastero (Pietro1) was born March 05, 1889 in Caccamo, Palermo, Sicily, and died August 06, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married Rosina Casale Abt. 1910, daughter of Carmine Casale and Angeline Albo. She was born October 04, 1893 in Italy, and died August 09, 1948 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..

Notes for Stefano Giuseppe Monastero:
Ship Manifest, SS Cretic, sailing from Napoli 21 Nov. 1905 & arriving in New York Dec. 5, 1905.
List #1, Passenger 11
Stefano Monastero, 17, single, tailor, Southern Italian; last residence Caccamo; destination Allegheny, Pa.; never in US before; going to join brother, Salvatore Monastero, 46 Robson St., Allegheny, Pa. (name on list lined out, may have been denied entry)

Ship Manifest, SS Ultonia, sailing from Palermo, 16 April, 1906, arriving at the port of New York, 2 May, 1906
List #5, Passenger 2
Stefano Monastero, 18, single, proprietor, Southern Italian; last residence, Caccamo; destination, Allegheny, Pa.; never in US before; going to join my brother, Salvatore Monastero, 202 Amelook St., Allegheny, Pa.

1913 Pittsburgh Directory
Monastero Stephen tailor 910 East

By 1910, Monastero was in business at 1278 Ridge Ave., North Side.

Monastero's wife filed for divorce in September 1910.

World War I Draft Registration Card:
Stefano Joe Monastero, 222 Anderson St., North Side, Pittsburgh
Age 28, born March 5, 1889, in Caccamo, Italy
Merchant, at same address. Has wife and 2 children.

1920 CENSUS PA Allegheny C Pittsburgh Ward 19 1604 Dagman Ave ED 620 Family 328
Steven Monastero, 30, SIC SIC SIC, arr ?1902 na, partner in wholesale fruit
Rose, 25, IT IT IT, arr 1904 na; Josephine, 8; Marie, 3

1923, Amerita Club, along with Frank Zappala and James Lovuola.

In 1927, Stefano identified the body of Luigi Lamendola and gave information for his death certificate.

The first known leader of the Pittsburgh Family was Stefano Monastero who was in power during the 1920's with interests in the bootlegging rackets as well as gambling, loansharking and extortion. His younger brother Salvatore "Sam" Monastero served as his underboss. Stefano Monastero had survived several attempts on his life over the years but on August 6, 1929 he was killed as he and his brother, Salvatore, approached the entrance of St. Johns General Hospital to visit a member of their Family. Police charged Monastero's arch enemy, Giuseppe "Joe The Ghost" Pangallo who had also survived several murder attempts including a dynamite explosion that blew him through the roof of his car on Wylie Avenue. After the shotgun slaying of Monastero in August of 1929 Joseph Siragusa became the new Boss of Pittsburgh. Stefano's brother, Sam, was garotted in March, 1930, his body found behind the wheel of his new blue coupe.

On July 9, 1968, records of the Coroner for Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Pa., indicated in Homicide Book Number 7, that on August 6, 1929, Steve Monastero, 41 Perrysville Avenue, Pittsburgh, died as a result of gunshot wounds of the head.[M68]

Monastera came to power with the endorsement of Salvatore Calderone, at the time of his retirement, around 1928.

More About Stefano Giuseppe Monastero:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Notes for Rosina Casale:
1930 CENSUS PA Allegheny C Pittsburgh Ward 26 ED 450 Family 29 41 Perryview Ave
Rose Monastero, 36, m at 16, IT IT IT, arr 1910 (next to sil Frances)
Josephine, 18; Marie, 13; Providence, 9

More About Rosina Casale:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Children of Stefano Monastero and Rosina Casale are:
8 i. Josephine3 Monastero, born November 13, 1911 in Pennsylvania; died September 1986 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.. She married Anthony Costantino; born October 05, 1910 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.; died July 15, 1992 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..
9 ii. Marie Monastero, born Abt. 1917. She married (Husband) Lisiewski.
10 iii. Providence Joan Monastero, born August 12, 1920 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.; died March 30, 1960 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.. She married Robert J. Thompson.

More About Providence Joan Monastero:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Giovanni “John” Cancelliere family history continued…


LEADER OF LABORS UNION, CHAMPION BOXER, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 27, 2010

Joe LaQuatra, a North Side native who became a Golden Gloves champion and who rose to become a powerful labor leader until his 2000 retirement, died Saturday. He was 77 and lived in Shaler.
A thick-set man who once boxed under famed trainer Angelo Dundee in Florida, Mr. LaQuatra had been business manager of Laborers International Local 1058 since 1985. He had also been head of the Laborer's District Council of Western Pennsylvania since 1986.
Born May 9, 1933, he grew up tough and followed his father, a boxer who fought under the name Mike Hogan in the 1920s, into the ring. He won the Pittsburgh Golden Gloves championship in 1953 and fought professionally under the direction of Chris and Angelo Dundee, later Muhammad Ali's trainer, out of their gym in Miami Beach from 1955 to 1961. His amateur record was 42-8, and his professional record was 18-4, said his son Michael LaQuatra, of Shaler. The proudest moment of his boxing career was fighting at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
In the early 1970s, Mr. LaQuatra opened his own gym above a 10th Street cafe on the South Side and later moved it to Carson Street, where he became a fixture for amateur fighters. In 1978 he moved the gym to the Pecora Building, Downtown, where Local 1058 is based, until he shut it down in 1980. A father of four, he said his family and union duties didn't leave him enough time for training boxers. "It was a tough decision" to close, he said at the time. "I put a lot of time into the clug and was close to the kids."
Mr. LaQuatra was admired by many of his young charges and embraced by the Italian community. In 1986, he was inducted into the Pittsburgh Chapter of the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, along with wrestler Bruno Sammartino and Steelers great Franco Harris, among others.
As a union leader, Mr. LaQuatra was devoted to his members, whom he described as his extended family, said Philip Ameris, president and business manager of the Labor's District Council of Western Pennsylvania. He worked under Mr. LaQuatra for about six years. "If God said pick a boss, that's who you would pick," Mr. Ameris said. "He was the best." He was one of the leaders behind the creation of a training center for union members in Saxonburg, an accomplishment he was especially proud of, Michael LaQuatra said. At the center, workers learned safety precautions and job skills.
Throughout his career, he was a hard worker who never forgot where he came from, Mr. Ameris said. "He always fought really hard to protect the jurisdiction of his members, and made sure they had a living wage, and the best health care possible and a good retirement when they retired," Michael LaQuatra said.
But the U.S. Justice Department claimed the Laborers International Union had long been troubled. The Justice Department said the union had been controlled by the Mafia since the 1950s, and a 2000 report claimed Mr. LaQuatra had a 30-year relationship with mobsters. The union and its lawyers said that the accusations were vague and that Local 1058's leaders were being punished for the actions of older relatives. A hearing officer in 2001 found no evidence of financial impropriety or corruption. But he placed the local under supervision because of the organized crime connections.
In addition to his son Michael, Mr. LaQuatra is survived by his wife, Christine; daughters Frances LaQuatra of the North Side and Lori LaQuatra of Miami; son Joseph of Shaler; sisters Rose Marie Lovell of the North Side and Nancy McConnell of Shaler; and four grandchildren.
Visitation will be today and Tuesday from 1 to 8 p.m. at T. B. Devlin Funeral Home, 806 Perry Highway, Ross. A Mass will be celebrarted in St. Sebastian Church, Ross, at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

SHALER ATHLETE CARRIED ENTHUSIASM INTO UNION WORK, by Adam Brandolph, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, December 27, 1910
Joseph Laquatra cared deeply for his family and friends and the thousands of workers he represented. "He was the best of the best," said Philip Ameris, president and business manager of the Laborers' District Council of Western Pennsylvania. "He was great for the union and, as a person, he was just as great. I used to say to everybody that if God told me I could pick a boss, I'd pick him."
Joseph Laquatra of Shaler, former president and business manager of Labors International Union of North America Local 1058 and Laborers District Council of Western Pennsylvania, died Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. He was 77. "He was generous, funny, kind and extremely protective of his family. Not a lot of people possess the kind of toughness that he had," son Michael Laquatra said. Mr. Laquatra became president and business manager of Laborer's Local 1058 in 1962 and took the same position at the Laborers District Council in 1986. He retired in 2000. At the time, the union was the sixth largest in the area, with 4,100 members.
An outstanding athlete, Mr. Laquatra was an all-city fullback at Allegheny High School in the North Side and became a professional boxer, following in his father's footsteps. Under the nickname "Joltin' Joe," Mr. Laquatra trained under famous cornerman Angelo Dundee in Miami and was the sparring partner of world heavyweight boxing champion Ingemar Johansson. Mr. Laquatra won the 1954 light heavyweight championship of the 145th infantry battalion in Camp pOlk, La., and the 1955 Golden Gloves heavyweight championship in Topeka. Over his fighting career, he compiled a 42-8 amateur record and an 18-4 record as a professional before back injuries force him into retirement. He was inducted into the Pittsburgh chapter of the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in 1986.
"What a man, what a man," said Mark Machi, Mr. Laquatra's one-time assistant at the union and owner of Warehouse Gym in Bloomfield. "We trained together, traveled together. He was my frienhd, my mentor. I was with him side-by-side for 20 years." Mr. Laquatra served as chairman of the Laborers Council pension and health care fund and is credited with leading efforts to establish the Western PA Laborers' Education & Training Center in Saxonburg. "One of the things that set him apart from a lot of people is that it didn't matter who you were, he treated everyone well," his son Michael said. "If he met you once, he acted like he knew you his whole life. To try to sum it up, he was simply the best."
In addion to his son, Mr. Laquatra is survived by his wife, Christine; another son, Joseph; daughters Frances and Lori Laquatra; sisters Rose Marie Lovell and Nancy Jean McConnell; and four grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother, Jack, and a sister, Marlene Laquatra.
Friends will be received from to 8 p.m. today and Tuesday in T. B. Devlin Funeral Home, 806 Perry Highway in Ross. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St. Sebastian Church in Ross.

Joe LaQuatra was the President of Local 1058 for 16 years, from 1968 to 1984. Thereafter, he served as Business Manager from 1985 until May 2000 when he retired. See Def. Ex. 6.
Between December 1974 and August 1976, Joe LaQuatra visited LaRocca Sr. at his Car Wash 38 times. During those visits, Joe LaQuatra never purchased gas nor had his car washed. On many occasions, Joe LaQuatra met with LaRocca Sr., John LaRocca Jr. (LaRocca Jr.), Dennis Martire, Teddy Cozza,[14] and Wango Capizzi. See GEB Ex. 108 (Allegheny Car Wash Source/Surveillance Log).[15]
Joe LaQuatra spent two hours at the Car Wash on June 9, 1980, without purchasing gas or having his car washed. See GEB Ex. 47 (Surveillance Log (FBI), Allegheny Car Wash, 6/9/80). On September 12, 1984, Joe LaQuatra met LaRocca Sr. and Bazzano Jr. at the Car Wash; again, Joe LaQuatra did not purchase gas or have his car washed. See GEB Exs. 38M, N, O, and VV.
In 1979, Joe LaQuatra attended the funeral of Louis Ciancutti (brother of Sonny Ciancutti).[16] See GEB Exs. 45A, C.
In 1980, Joe LaQuatra attended the funerals of Kelly Mannarino and Anthony LaRocca (LaRocca Sr.’s brother). See GEB Exs. 33N and O, (FBI Surveillance Log; GEB Ex. 47 (FBI Surveillance Log, Allegheny Car Wash, 6/9/80).
In 1984, Joe LaQuatra attended the funeral of LaRocca Sr. See GEB Ex. 39D (Photographs: John Larocca Funeral, 12/6/84).
Joe LaQuatra attended the funeral of Louis Raucci Jr. (Raucci Jr.) on November 21, 1985. Joe Rosa, Zottola, Genovese, Porter, Joe Scoleri, Michael Rosenfeld and Dennis Martire were also present. See GEB Exs. 40A and B (Photographs: Lou Raucci, Jr. Funeral, 11/21/85); and N (FBI Surveillance Log).
In 1988, FBI surveillance observed Joe LaQuatra attending a meeting held at L.A. Motors in Verona, Pennsylvania with Genovese, Raucci Sr., Porter, Zottola, Bazzano Jr., and Charles Pecora. See GEB Ex. 41A (Videotape: L.A. Motors 12/24/88).
During the 1990s, Joe LaQuatra was observed playing golf at Rose Ridge with Dennis Martire, Wango Capizzi, and Zottola. T. 176-179. The FBI observed Joe LaQuatra and Philip Ameris leaving a restaurant with Sonny Ciancutti in 1997. See GEB Exs. 43A-K (Photographs: Joseph N. Pecora Funeral, 3/7/87); 43L (FBI Surveillance Log). In 1998, the FBI observed Joe LaQuatra and Mark Machi, then an Executive Board member, briefly meeting with Joseph Tobasco (Tobasco) near the Rosa Villa Restaurant.[17] See GEB Ex. 110 (August 1998 FBI Surveillance Log, Rosa Villa); GEB Exs. 111-122 (Photographs: 1998 FBI surveillance photos of individuals standing in front of Rosa Villa Restaurant (Joe Laquatra, Tabasco, Mark Machi, unknown)); Tr. 822-823. The FBI observed Joe LaQuatra meeting with Tobasco briefly near the Rosa Villa restaurant again in 1999.[18] See GEB Ex. 123 (1999 FBI Surveillance Log of Local 1058 Union Hall on 8th Street (Laquatra, Ameris, Machi); Rosa Villa Restaurant (Joe Laquatra, Tabasco)).

Gerald Pecora testified... that he would accompany his father to LaRocca Sr.’s house at Christmas each year. Tr. 1068-1070. Gerald Pecora testified that Joe LaQuatra and Dennis Martire were present on these occasions. Tr. 1072.

Joseph LaQuatra, longtime Pittsburgh Mob associate and powerful labor leader. Mr. LaQuatra had been business manager of Laborers International Local 1058 since 1985. He had also been head of the Laborer's District Council of Western Pennsylvania since 1986. But the U.S. Justice Department claimed the Laborers International Union had long been troubled. The Justice Department said the union had been controlled by the Mafia since the 1950s, and a 2000 report claimed Mr. LaQuatra had a 30-year relationship with mobsters. The union and its lawyers said that the accusations were vague and that Local 1058's leaders were being punished for the actions of older relatives. A hearing officer in 2001 found no evidence of financial impropriety or corruption. But he placed the local under supervision because of the organized crime connections. _jcb



Children of Joseph Laquatra and Christine Kempinski are:
46 i. Frances M.6 Laquatra, born Abt. 1973. She married Michael Hoffman.

Notes for Frances M. Laquatra:
3724 McClure Ave., Brighton Heights.

47 ii. Michael J. Laquatra.
+ 48 iii. Joseph J. Laquatra.
49 iv. Lorie L. Laquatra.


Generation No. 6

48. Joseph J.6 Laquatra (Joseph J.5, Frances C.4 Cancelliere, Giacamo "Jack"3 Cancelliere/Cangelier, Giovanni2 Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier, Giovanni1 Cancelliere) He married Carrie Revay.

Children of Joseph Laquatra and Carrie Revay are:
50 i. Joseph7 Laquatra.
51 ii. Lucca Laquatra.

Giovanni “John” Cancelliere

Descendants of Giovanni Cancelliere


Generation No. 1

1. Giovanni1 Cancelliere He married Maria Campus/Campbell. She was born in Italy.

Children of Giovanni Cancelliere and Maria Campus/Campbell are:
+ 2 i. Charles2 Cancelliere, born February 08, 1858 in Italy; died October 03, 1931 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..
+ 3 ii. Giovanni Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier, born May 08, 1860 in Villa Rosa, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy; died December 18, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..


Generation No. 2

2. Charles2 Cancelliere (Giovanni1) was born February 08, 1858 in Italy, and died October 03, 1931 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married Lena Damico Abt. 1879 in Italy, daughter of Giuseppe Damico and Rosia Fashiano. She was born November 25, 1861 in Italy, and died January 06, 1934 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..

Notes for Charles Cancelliere:
1930 CENSUS PA Allegheny Co. Pittsburgh Ward 21 ED 384 Family 22, 1215 Liverpool St.
Charles Cangelier, 72, m at 26, IT arr 1927
Lena, 68, m at 17, IT arr 1927; John, 27, m at 27, IT arr 1920, fruit store clerk; Angelina, 19 m at 19;
Mario Cavalo, 31, m at 21, IT arr 1920, fruit store clerk
Rae, 29, m at 19, IT arr 1927; Sarah, 9 IT arr 1927; Samuel, 1; Charles, 2/12

More About Charles Cancelliere:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Notes for Lena Damico:
Struck by a car.

More About Lena Damico:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Children of Charles Cancelliere and Lena Damico are:
+ 4 i. John S.3 Cancillieri, born November 03, 1902 in Italy; died June 28, 1968.
5 ii. Giuseppe Cancillieri, born December 23, 1889 in Italy; died June 21, 1964 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..

More About Giuseppe Cancillieri:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.


3. Giovanni2 Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier (Giovanni1 Cancelliere) was born May 08, 1860 in Villa Rosa, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy, and died December 18, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married Frances Laquatra, daughter of Salvatore Laquatra. She was born January 23, 1865 in Villa Rosa, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy, and died October 15, 1946 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..

Notes for Giovanni Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier:
Arrived aboard the Prinzess Irene in 1912, headed for Yatesboro, Cowanshannock Twp., Armstrong Co., Pa.

1920 CENSUS PA Cambria Co. Summerhill Twp. ED 243 Family 248
John Canglier, 60, IT arr 1912
Frances, 54, IT, arr 1913; John, 20, IT arr 1912; Samuel, 13, IT arr 1913; Angelo, 11, IT arr 1913; Lecho, 7, IT arr 1913; Joseph, nephew, 31, IT arr 1910
Giacomo Cancellier, 31, IT arr 1909 nat 1916, coal miner
Mary, 21, IT arr 1913 nat 1916; Frances, 5; Lena, 3; John, 2



More About Giovanni Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier:
Burial: Christ Our Redeemer Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Notes for Frances Laquatra:
MRS. FRANCES CANCELLIERE
Mrs. Frances LaQuatra Cancelliere, widow of John Canclliere, died yesterday in her home, 1129 Ridge Ave., North Side. Mrs. Cancelliere was a native of Italy She is survived by five sons, Jack, John, Samuel, Angelo and Louis Cancelliere, and a brother, Carmello LaQuatra, all of Pittsburgh; 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Friends are being received at the Frank W. Simons Funeral Home, 2025 Perrysville Ave. Solemn requiem high mass will e sung at 10 a.m. Satuurday in the Queen of Heaven Church, Juniata St., North Side. Burial will be in the North Side Catholic Cemetery.

More About Frances Laquatra:
Burial: Christ Our Redeemer Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Children of Giovanni Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier and Frances Laquatra are:
+ 6 i. Giacamo "Jack"3 Cancelliere/Cangelier, born May 08, 1888 in Villarosa, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy; died August 24, 1962 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..
+ 7 ii. John Dinni Cangelier/Cancelliere, born June 12, 1900 in Villa Rosa, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy; died September 1976.
+ 8 iii. Sam Cangelier/Cancelliere, born January 12, 1904 in Italy; died April 30, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..
+ 9 iv. Angelo Cancelliere, born January 11, 1908; died September 05, 1973.
+ 10 v. Lucho (Louis J.) Cancelliere/Cangelier, born February 12, 1912 in Italy; died February 17, 1965 in Scott Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa..
+ 11 vi. Joseph Cancelliere.


Generation No. 3

4. John S.3 Cancillieri (Charles2 Cancelliere, Giovanni1) was born November 03, 1902 in Italy, and died June 28, 1968. He married Angelina Gamelier January 22, 1930 in North Side, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.. She was born October 12, 1910 in Pennsylvania, and died July 03, 2005.

Notes for John S. Cancillieri:
Two men murdered at his weddng reception, January 23, 1930. Residence 1215 Liverpool Street.

A double murder took place at their wedding reception. Four hundred invited guests, including Spallino, crowded the Eagles Hall on West Stockton and Sherman Avenues to celebrate the Jan. 22, 1930, union. As the orchestra played "Home Sweet Home" and attendees danced and collected pieces of wedding cake, one uninvited guest, Leo Baretta, crossed the dance floor and fired five shots from a handgun into the back of Salvatore Cirlingione (also known as Joseph Blair). According to authorities the two men had been partners in a North Side cafe and were linked with local bootleg operations. Seconds later, as Baretta attempted to flee, Spallino emptied his handgun into the assassin's head. Police burst into the hall just as Spallino slipped out of a side exit. Detective Flrenz Brunner apprehended the gangster before he reached his automobile. Baretta and Cirlingione were taken to Allegheny General Hospital where they were pronounced dead. As detectives interviewed the hundreds of wedding attendees, they discovered that none of them say anything helpful. Spallino could not be prosecuted.249

1930 CENSUS PA Allegheny Co. Pittsburgh Ward 21 ED 384 Fami8ly 22, 1215 Liverpool St.
Charles Cangelier, 72, m at 26, IT arr 1927
Lena, 68, m at 17, IT arr 1927; John, 27, m at 27, IT arr 1920, fruit store clerk; Angelina, 19 m at 19;
Mario Cavalo, 31, m at 21, IT arr 1920, fruit store clerk
Rae, 29, m at 19, IT arr 1927; Sarah, 9 IT arr 1927; Samuel, 1; Charles, 2/12

1940 CENSUS PA Allegheny Co. Pittsburgh Ward 21 ED 69-638 Family 212, 1411 Fulton St.
John Cancelliri, 38, IT, vending machines
Angeline, 29; Lena, 9; Charles, 7; Ida, 2/12
John Vinconti, 50, lodger, IT, laborer in steel mill

MOTHER DEAD, SON WINS JAIL PAROLE
The death of his aged mother yesterday swung open the cell doors in the county jail temporarily for John Cancillieri, 31, of 1411 Fulton Street, North Side. The mother, Mrs. Lena Cancillieri, was struck Friday night by an auto at Fulton and Liverpool Streets, while she was on her way to church. She died a few hours later in the Presbyterian Hospital.
The release of the son, sentenced to three months in jail Nov. 20 for having thrice violated the dry law, was petitioned and Federal Judge F. P. Schoonmaker directed that he be freed from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m yesterday and all day Tuesday, the day of the funeral. The Pittsburgh Press, 1/7/34

ASKS "ANOTHER CHANCE" AND IS SHOWN LENIENCY
Pleading for "another chance," John S. Cancillieri of Fulton street won leniency in criminal court yesterday after he had pleaded guilty of an illegal liquor charge. Cancillieri [Cancelliere] was arrested last April by state enforcement agents, who said they found a still, mash and sugar, and one gallon of moonshine. He told Judge W. Heber Dithrich he had decided to take a chance because he was out of work and desperate over Illness of his wife and child. He was fined $100. PG 2/15/39

NEW TRIAL DENIED IN GAMBLING CASE, The Pittsburgh Press, October 4, 1949
Visiting Judge J. Frank Graff today refused to grant a new trial for John S. Cancillieri, on whose farm in Indiana Twp. County detectives seized 170 slot machines last March. A jury found Cancillieri, alias Cangelier, guilty of being a common gambler two months later. In seeking a new trial, Cancillieri claimed that the slot machines were being dismantled and were not to be used for gambling. Since his conviction, Judge Thomas M. Marshall granted a motion of the District Attorney's office to destroy the slots, valued at between $30,000 and $100,000. A date for sentencing Cancillieri will be set shortly.

SLOT MACHINE APPEAL DENIED, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 5, 1949
Visiting Judge J. Frank Graff yesterday rejected the motion for a new trial for John Cancillieri, of 1411 Fulton Street, convicted after 170 slot machines were seized in his barn on Klein road, Indiana township, last March. Cancillieri [Cancelliere] had claimed he had received the machines from the Coin Distributing Company and was going to convert them into "various useful articles." In rejecting the appeal for another trial, Judge Graff ruled "it was a matter for the jury to decide whether these gambling devices were being kept with the purpose of operating them."

JOHN CANCILLIERI
Concelebrated requiem mass for John Cancillieri, 65, will be offered at 10 a.m. today in the Church of the Assumption, Bellevue, with his son, the Rev. Charles Cancillieri, S.M., as principal celebrant. Mr. Cancillieri was pronounced dead on arrival Friday (June 28) at Suburban General Hospital. He lived at 403 Forest Ave., Bellevue, where he operated a grocery store on Freemont Avenue. Earlier, he had owned a grocery store on Island Avenue, the Northside. In addition to Father Cancillieri, who is at Cathedral of Latin High School, Cleveland, Mr. Cancillieri is survived by his wife, Angeline Gamilier Cancillieri, at home, and Mrs. Ida Lepri, of Pittsburgh; and one grandchild. Burial will take place in North Side Catholic Cemetery. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 1, 1968.

More About John S. Cancillieri:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Notes for Angelina Gamelier:
Name: Angeline M. Cancillieri
Last Residence: 15317 Canonsburg, Washington, Pennsylvania
Born: 12 Oct 1910
Died: 3 Jul 2005
State (Year) SSN issued: Pennsylvania (1966)

CANCILLIERI
ANGELINE M.
Formerly of Bellevue, age 94, on Sunday July 3, 2005. Beloved wife of the late John S. Cancillieri; loving mother of Ida (Dominick) Lepri & the late Charles Cancillieri & Lena Cancillieri; mother-in-law of Jeannette Cancillieri; grandmother of John (Sandra) Lepri & the late Dominick Lepri, III; great grandmother of Andrew Lepri; sister of Carmella Bowers, Katherine Murphy, Samuel Gioia & the late Anthony Gamelier, Michael Gamelier, Sarah Gioia, Rose Miller & Lena Smith. Funeral arrangements by BEINHAUERS. Friends welcome at 2828 Washington Road, Peters Township, 724-941-3211, Tuesday 7-9 PM and Wednesday 2-9 PM. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday 11:00 AM at St. Benedict the Abbot Church. (PG 6/6/05)

More About Angelina Gamelier:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Children of John Cancillieri and Angelina Gamelier are:
+ 12 i. Ida4 Cancillieri, born Abt. 1940.
13 ii. Lena M. Cancillieri, born March 18, 1931 in Pennsylvania; died August 14, 2000.

Notes for Lena M. Cancillieri:
Lena M. "Honey" Cancillieri, 69, died Monday, Aug. 14, 2000. She had owned and operated John's Market in Bellevue for several years. Survivors include her mother, Angeline Cancillieri; and a sister, Ida Lepri. She was preceded in death by her father, John Cancillieri; and a brother, Charles Cancillieri. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today and Thursday in Lawrence T. Miller Funeral Home, 460 Lincoln Ave., Bellevue. Christian Funeral Mass will be at noon Friday at the Church of the Assumption, Bellevue. Burial will be in Christ Our Redeemer Cemetery, Ross. (Trib 8/16/2000)

More About Lena M. Cancillieri:
Burial: Chirst Our Redeemer Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

14 iii. Charles Anthony Cancillieri, born August 04, 1932 in Pennsylvania; died November 01, 1997 in Westlake, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. He married Jeannette Soltis Abt. 1972; born June 28, 1934; died September 02, 2009.

Notes for Charles Anthony Cancillieri:
Name: Charles Anthony Cancillieri
Birth Date: 5 Aug 1932
Birth State: Pennsylvania
Gender: Male
Race: White
Hispanic Origin: Not Hispanic (Latino)
Death Date: 1 Nov 1997
Hospital of Death: St John/west Shore Hospital
City of Death: Westlake
County of Death: Cuyahoga
Certificate: 086738
Age at Death: 65
Hospital Status: Hospital/ER-Outpatient
Social Security Number: 198-24-6139
Father's Surname: Cancillieri
Mother's Maiden Name: Gamelier
Marital Status: Married
Armed Forces Indicator: No
Occupation of Decedent: Insurance sales occupations


More About Charles Anthony Cancillieri:
Burial: Holy Trinity Cemetery, Ohio

Notes for Jeannette Soltis:
JEANNETTE M. CANCILLIERI (nee Soltis), passed away September 4, 2009. Beloved wife of the late Charles A. Canciellieri who preceded her in death in 1997 to whom she was married to for 25 years. Sister of Frank R. (Lynn) and Kenneth (Barbara) Soltis and Barbara Vinez. Sister-in-law of Dominick and Ida Lepri. Aunt of six. Born and raised in Parkman Ohio, the daughter of Julia (nee Kral) and Frank Soltis Jr., both deceased. Graduate of Chalker High School in Southington, Ohio. Education included a Master's degree in Management, University of Notre Dame / South Bend; B.S. in Accounting, John Carroll University / Cleveland; CPA and CFP certified. She spent her entire career in financial management both in financial institution business for twenty years, and several non-profit businesses, which included hospital, municipal finance, and Girl Scout Council. Jeannette was also a local instructor for the Becker CPA Review Course. She served on various boards, including her condo association, and the St. John West Shore Hospital Advisory Board. She also served as C.A.R.E. Minister and Eucharistic Minister for St. Bernadette Church as well as a member of the Parish Financial Council. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Saturday, September 5, at 11 a.m. at St. Bernadette Church, 2256 Clague Rd. Westlake. Burial will be private. Friends may call FRIDAY (TODAY) FROM 3-8 P.M. at CRACIUN BERRY FUNERAL HOME, 23040 CENTER RIDGE RD., WESTLAKE. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions be made to St. Bernadette Church Endowment Fund.




6. Giacamo "Jack"3 Cancelliere/Cangelier (Giovanni2 Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier, Giovanni1 Cancelliere) was born May 08, 1888 in Villarosa, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy, and died August 24, 1962 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married Maria Palilla Abt. 1913, daughter of Angelo Palilla and Lena Macalusa. She was born Abt. 1899 in Villarosa, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy, and died November 14, 1927 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..

Notes for Giacamo "Jack" Cancelliere/Cangelier:
Manifest, SS Italia, sailed from Palermo, arrived in NYC October 8, 1909.
#24, Giacomo Cancelliere, laborer, last residence, Villarosa, Sicily, father Giovanni in Villarosa. Destination, Yatesboro, Pa. Traveling to join his uncle, Santo LaQuatra, Yatesboro, Pa. Born in Villarosa.

1910 CENSUS PA Armstrong Co. Cowanshannock Twp. ED 11 Family 322 (Santo Laguardia family)
Calogero Cancelliere, boarder,17, IT IT IT, arr 1909, coal miner
Giacomo Cancelliere, boarder, 22, IT IT IT, arr 1909, coal miner

WWI Draft Registration Card
Giacomo Concillieri, Yatesboro, Pa.
Age 29, born May 8 1888 in Villarosa, Italy
Miner for C C & C Co., Yatesboro, Pa.
Wife and children

1920 CENSUS PA Cambria Co. Summerhill Twp. ED 243 Family 248
John Canglier, 60, IT arr 1912
Frances, 54, IT, arr 1913; John, 20, IT arr 1912; Samuel, 13, IT arr 1913; Angelo, 11, IT arr 1913; Lecho, 7, IT arr 1913; Joseph,
nephew, 31, IT arr 1910
Giacomo Cancellier, 31, IT arr 1909 nat 1916, coal miner
Mary, 21, IT arr 1913 nat 1916; Frances, 5; Lena, 3; John, 2

1930 CENSUS PA Allegheny Co. Pittsburgh Ward 21 ED 390 Family 86 & 87, 1129 Ridge Ave.
Jack Cangelier, 41, widower, m at 25, IT arr 1909, no occupation
Frances C., 15; Lena, 13; John, 12; Angelo, 9; Rose, 6, Frances Laquatra, mil, 66, widow, m at 16, IT arr 1913.
John Cangelier, 30, m at 26, IT arr 1903, barber
Louise, 20, m at 16; John, 1/12; Sam, bro, 26, IT arr 1913, barber; Charles, 21, IT arr 1913, ?helper; Luigi, bro, 18, arr 1913,
barber

Opened Rosa Villa in 1932, 106 Robinson St., North Side.

In 1940, may have operated a grocery at 1909 Beaver Ave., North Side.

WWII Draft Registration 1942
Jack Cancilliere, 1129 Ridge Ave., North Side, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.
Age 53, born May 7, 1888 in Villa Rosa, Italy
Mr. Eshball, 1131 Ridge Ave, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Employed at 106 E. Robinson St., Pittsburgh Allegheny Co., Pa.

The Pennsylvania State Police furnished the Pittsburgh FBI Office a copy of a report dated October 14, 1942, which was written by Detective John Chrin, Pennsylvania State Police (PSP), entitled "Mafia Society's Activities in Labor," in which Detective Chrin referred to several prominent Western Pennsylvania racketeers as members of the Black Hand or of the Mafia. No evidence is contained in Chrin's report to the effect that these racketeers are actually Mafia members, but merely refers to them as such. Chrin, in his report, also mentioned the society known as the Villa Rosa, beneficial association organized by Jack Cancelliere, a North Side, Pittsburgh, racketeer, and composed of a group of fellow Sicilians, as an organization of Pennsylvania Handers. Unverified allegations have come to the attention of this office from other sources to the effect that the Villa Rosa Society might be a Black Hand group.

'HOPELESS DEADLOCK' GETS JURY DISMISSED
The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa.
December 21, 1944

A "hopelessly deadlocked" Federal jury was dismissed today after 19 ½ hours of deliberation failed to produce a verdict in the case of Giacomo Cancelliere, who was charged with conspiracy to assist in concealing assets of a bankrupt estate. Cancelliere, 56, of 1129 Ridge Ave., and eight others were indicted on a charge of alleging they conspired to conceal assets of $26,000 from the estate of Vincent Parisi. The other indictments were dropped by court order on technical grounds. The jury in the Cancelliere case began its discussion at 2:45 p.m. yesterday, and at 10:15 a.m. today the foreman told Federal Judge F. P. Schoonmaker that there was no possibility of agreement. Government officials were unable to indicate whether a new trial will be sought.


FBI 8/17/67 Subject File: LCN
PG T-4 advised that in the late 1920's and early 1930's, the two top groups in the Mafia in the Pittsburgh area were headed by John Cancellieri (deceased) of the North Side, and the Volpe brothers of Wilmerding, Pittsburgh, Pa., headed by Johnny Volpe (deceased), also known as "Prince Johnny." He stated that Johnny Volpe was shot down in July, 1932, on Wylie Avenue, Pittsburgh, with his brothers, Jimmy and Arthur. Louis Volpe and Joe Volpe are the younger surviving brothers. John Cancellieri died about 1965, and left his Rosa Villa Restaurant at Sandusky and East General Robinson Streets to his grandsons, John and Sam. The father of these two boys, Sam, died in 1947, and was an active Mafia man. The informant was not certain of the sons' affiliation with La Cosa Nostra but knows that meetings are held at the Rosa Villa Restaurant between LaRocca, the Mannarinos, and Tony Ripepi periodically.

Teletype 7-25-61
To: Director, FBI
From: SAC, Pittsburgh
Sebastian John LaRocca

Rebutel to New York, July 7 last.

John Cancilliere, who is in seventies and has known LaRocca from birth, interviewed at Pittsburgh residence, 3611 Shadeland Ave. He admitted he stayed at 5616 Arthur St., Hollywood, Fla., from January, last to end of April last, but denied that LaRocca utilized his home as a headquarters or visited him with any frequency. He states LaRocca did visit him on at least one occasion that he can recall and that the visit was only a social one during which time no telephone calls were made. He stated he flew to Fla. via jet plane and was accompanied by Charles Fashion, a crippled individual, age 73, from Johnstown, Pa., who is a retired beer salesman. He stated he had no other visitors except LaRocca and was placed in Hollywood, Fla., hospital when he became seriously ? by son, Johnny, age 43, and manager of Rosa Villa Restaurant in PG which was hangout of LaRocca, flew to Fla.. with uncle, Angelo Cancelliere, and drove father's car back to Pg. Because of advanced age and fact that Cancelliere could not talk English, no further info relating to social relationship with LaRocca sought.

CANCELLIERE, on Aug. 24, 1962, Giacomo (Jack), beloved father of John and Angelo Cancelliere, Mrs. Frances Laquatra, Mrs. Lena Restivo, Mrs. Rose Tominello; brother of John, Angelo and Lucho Cancelliere; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Friends received at P. A. Bianco Funeral Home, 719 Brighton Rd. near Ridge Ave., N.S. Requiem mass at Regina Coeli Church on Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. (The Pittsburgh Press, August 25, 1962)

GIACOMO CANCELLIERE
A requiem mass for Giacomo (Jack) Cancelliere, owner of the Rosa Villa Restaurant, Northside, will be sung tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Regina Coeli Church, 1434 Juniata St., Northside. Mrs. Cancelliere, 74, died Saturday (Aug. 25)[sic] in St. John's Hospital. He lived at 3611 Shadeland Ave., Northside. Surviving are two sons, John J. and Angelo J.; three daughters, Mrs. Frances Laquatra, Mrs. Lena Restivo and Mrs. Rose Tominello; three brothers, Angelo, John and Lucho; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Friends are being received at the P. A. Bianco Funeral Home, 719 Brighton Road, Northside. Burial will be in Northside Catholic Cemetery. (Post-Gazette, Aug. 26, 1962)


More About Giacamo "Jack" Cancelliere/Cangelier:
Burial: Christ Our Redeemer Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Notes for Maria Palilla:
Maria died November 14, 1927, when an Equitable Gas containment tank exploded on the North Side. She was hit by a shard of glass from a nearby window at her home at 1129 Ridge Ave., which severed an artery in her hip or her carotid artery. The "Congoliers" had moved into the house during the 1920s. A photo of her motherless children appeared in The Press on November 16, 1927.

THE DIGS, Nov. 14, 2012, by Steve Mellon
Nov. 17, 1927: Behind this picture lies a tragic story. How that story ends is a mystery, one you may be able to help solve. These five children, dressed in their Sunday clothes, are siblings. Can you see a certain sadness in the eyes? A sense of shock? The picture was published in the Pittsburgh Press under the headline, “Blast leaves five tots motherless.”
Mary Cangelier was washing her family’s laundry when one of the world’s largest gas storage tanks exploded just a few blocks away, on Reedsdale Street on the city’s North Side. Nearby buildings collapsed into heaps of debris; pieces of the steel tank rained down on the city’s streets. The blast shattered thousands of windows, including those in the Cangelier home; one jagged piece of glass cut into Mary’s leg with such force that it severed an artery. The 28-year-old mother bled to death.
The explosion killed 28 people. Most were workers on or near the gas tank and were either blown to pieces or were crushed by falling debris. A few days after the explosion, a Press photographer was summoned to take a picture of Mary’s five children. They are, from left, Lena, 11; John, 9; Angelo, 7; Rose, 4; and Frances, 13.
And what happened to the Cangelier children? We’d like to know. If you have any information about the explosion or the family, please contact us and we’ll share it on the Digs.

*A year ago we posted a photograph of five children left motherless after a deadly explosion on the North Sice in 1927. We knew very little about the children and wondered, "What happened to them?" We asked for your help.
Well, we have learned a few things, from information provided by some of our readers and from our own newspaper files. What emerges is a complex story of a Pittsburgh family that spans more than eight decades.
The picture appeared in the Pittsburgh Press a few days after the explosion of a gas storage tank on Reedsdale Street. The blast killed 28 people, including a young mother, Mary Cancelliere (the name sometimes appears as Congelier, Cangalier of Cangellire). Her children are, from left, Lena, 11; John, 9; Angelo, 7; Rose, 4; and Frances, 1.
Frances "loved people and loved food," wrote the PG's Linda Wilson Fuoco in Frances' obituary in February 2007. Frances married Michael Laquatra and worked nearly her entire adult life at the Rosa Villa restaurant, which her father Giacamo established in 1932. You may remember the Rosa Villa - it was located on General Robinson Boulevard and Sandusky Street on the North Side.
Regular customers were Steelers owner Art Rooney and "Mean" Joe Green. Michael Keaton and Dennis Hopper stopped there when they were in town. The Rosa Villa closed in 2004.
Frances died at age 92 and was survived by a son, two daughters, 11 grandchildren and 88 great-grandchildren.
Lena married Joseph Restivo and was listed along with her brother John as co-owner of the Rosa Villa. She died at age 70 in 1990 and was survived by three daughters, a son and 12 grandchildren.
John died in 1987. He was 69. His obituary listed no children.
Angelo graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1943 and served two terms as president of the North Side Lions Club. He died at age 71 in 1992. We discovered little about Rose other than the month and year of her death, January 1981.
In the PG files, we found an envelope of newspaper storeis with headlines like "Numbers Suspect Held for Court" and Tax Liens slapped on Cangeliers." Some members of the Cancelliere family, the stories tell us, were arrested in the late 1940s and charged with operating lotteries. John Cancelliere, uncle of the children, was named in a few of those stories.
For years the Cancellieres remained in the house where Mary died. A number of extended family members joined them there. In fact, one new story about the Cancellieres' tax problems attempted to sort out who was who in the three story brick home at 1129 Ridge Ave.
The writer figures out the first two family members named in a suit, but "the third Cangalier is named only as John, which the Bureau of Internal Revenue may find confusing," the article complains. "There are at least three Johns and the whole family uses the same address..."
Census records from 1930 show that the Cancelliere children lived at that address with their father and uncles John, Sam and Luigi, all barbers, and Charles, a carpenter.
We realize this is but a partial history of a family rocked by one of the city's great tragedies. So much remains untold. We thank the readers who helped us peel a bit of the mystery from a poignant picture buried deep in our files.

More About Maria Palilla:
Burial: Christ Our Redeemer Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Children of Giacamo Cancelliere/Cangelier and Maria Palilla are:
+ 15 i. Frances C.4 Cancelliere, born December 11, 1914 in Pennsylvania; died February 18, 2007 in Of Brighton Heights.
+ 16 ii. Lena M. Cancelliere, born April 23, 1916 in Yatesboro, CowanshannockTwp., Armstrong Co., Pa.; died April 09, 1990 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..
17 iii. John J. Cancelliere, born August 28, 1917 in Pennsylvania; died January 22, 1987.

Notes for John J. Cancelliere:
CLUB BUYER'S SON PAUPER, HE SAYS
The Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa.
October 2, 1948

John C. Cancelliere, 31, North Side police character, is not so loaded with greenbacks as his papa, Angelo, a prospective buyer of the Club Society. In fact, John says he's a pauper. He was released from jail yesterday for a hearing Thursday on his refusal to pay $5500 in a damage suit against him. John told Judge Henry X. O'Brien that he was "insolvent" and his stay in the lockup was a "hardship" against himself and family. When not in jail, he runs the Belgrade Bar and Grill at 106 E. General Robinson St., North Side.
Back in 1946, one of his patrons, Denzill Hall, fell down the steps in the saloon and broke his back. He sued for $15,000, claiming the stairway to the men's room was "worn, rotted and rusted and had no lights." The jury awarded him $5500. John refused to pay. So yesterday he was jailed by deputy sheriffs. But he was out on a habeas corpus writ before his cell seat got warm.
It was just one of many brushes with the law for the stocky member of the Cancellieres. There was a killing in the Robinson St. Bistro in 1933 but John, arrested then, was released after an investigation by Detective Dennis Timpona. Timpona was adjudged "unfit" by the recent Grand Jury investigating rackets in Pittsburgh. In 1942, and on frequent other occasions, John was picked up as a numbers racketeer.


JOHN CANCELLIERE
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pa., January 24, 1987
John Cancelliere, 69, owner of the Rosa Villa Café on the North Side, died Thursday of a stroke in Allegheny General Hospital. He lived on Shadeland Avenue in Brighton Heights. A member of the North Side Rotary Club, Mr. Cancelliere operated the café, which was begun by his father in the 1930s. Arrangements are being handled by the Thomas P. Kunsak Funeral Home, 3352 California, Ave., Brighton Heights.

JOHN J. CANELLIERE
Pittsburgh Press, January 24, 1987
John J. Cancelliere, 69, owner of Rosa Villa Cafe on the North Side, died of a stroke Thursday at Allegheny General Hospital. He was a Brighton Heights resident and a member of the North Side Rotary. His late father, Giacomo, founded the cafe in 1932. Survivors include two sisters, Frances Laquatra and Lena Restivo, both of Pittsburgh, and a brother, Angelo, also of Pittsburgh; and an aunt, Louise Cancelliere. Friends may call until 9 tonight and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. tomorrow at Thomas P. Kunsak Funeral Home, 3552 California Ave. at Davis Avenue, Brighton Heights. Mass of Christian burial will be offered at Regina Coeli Catholic Church, 1434 Juniata St., North Side at 10 a.m. Monday. Burial will be in North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross.

18 iv. Angelo J. Cancelliere, born September 30, 1920 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.; died January 22, 1992 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..

Notes for Angelo J. Cancelliere:
Angelo J. Cancelliere , 71, owner of Rosa-Villa Cafe at Sandusky and East General Robinson Streets, North Side, died of a heart attack Wednesday at Mercy Hospital. He had inherited the business from his late father, Giacomo Cancelliere , who founded the establishment in 1932. Mr. Cancelliere, who lived in Brighton Heights, was a 1943 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and was a two-term past president of the North Side Lions Club. He is survived by a sister, Frances LaQuatra of Brighton Heights. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today in the Thomas P. Kunsak Funeral Home, California and Davis avenues, Brighton Heights. A funeral mass will be offered at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in Regina Coeli Roman Catholic Church, Juniata Street, North Side. Burial will be in North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross. (PG 1/24/92)

CANCELLIERE, on Wed., January 22, 1992, Angelo J., beloved brother of Frances Laquatra, the late Lena Restivo, Rose Tominello and the late John J. Cancelliere; nephew of Louise Cancelliere' uincle of Joseph LaQuatra; also survived by nieces and nephews. Friends received 204 and 7609 Thurs. and Fri. at the Thomas P. Kunsak Funeral Home, 3552 California Ave. at Davis Ave. Funeral Mass at Regina Coeli Church Sat. at 9:30 a.m.



More About Angelo J. Cancelliere:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

19 v. Rose Cancelliere, born October 28, 1923 in Pennsylvania; died January 1981. She married (Husband) Tominello 1947.


7. John Dinni3 Cangelier/Cancelliere (Giovanni2 Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier, Giovanni1 Cancelliere) was born June 12, 1900 in Villa Rosa, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy, and died September 1976. He married Louise (Cangelier) Abt. 1926. She was born June 30, 1910 in Dunloe, Pennsylvania, and died August 20, 1999.

Notes for John Dinni Cangelier/Cancelliere:
Arrived in US Sep. 6, 1912 aboard the Prinzess Irene. Naturalized 1928.

1930 CENSUS PA Allegheny Co. Pittsburgh Ward 21 ED 390 Family 86 & 87, 1129 Ridge Ave.
Jack Cangelier, 41, widower, m at 25, IT arr 1909, no occupation
Frances C., 15; Lena, 13; John, 12; Angelo, 9; Rose, 6, Frances Laquatra, mil, 66, widow, m at 16, IT arr 1913.
John Cangelier, 30, m at 26, IT arr 1903, barber
Louise, 20, m at 16; John, 1/12; Sam, bro, 26, IT arr 1913, barber; Charles, 21, IT arr 1913, ?helper; Luigi, bro, 18, arr 1913,
barber

1935, at 1209 Beaver Ave., Northside.



Notes for Louise (Cangelier):
CANGELIER (CHANCELLIERE), Louise, on Friday, August 20, 1999; widow of John; adored mother of John P. Cangelier; ;grandmother of John and Louis Cangelier; great-grandmother of Christina, Lauren and Alivia; survived also by many devoted nieces,nephews and friends. Friends may call Sunday 12-9 pm at O'Brien's, 3724 California at Cooper Aves., N.S. Funeral Mass in St. Cyril of Alexandria Church on Monday at 10 am.

Child of John Cangelier/Cancelliere and Louise (Cangelier) is:
+ 20 i. John P.4 Cangelier, born 1930 in Pennsylvania; died November 24, 2020.


8. Sam3 Cangelier/Cancelliere (Giovanni2 Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier, Giovanni1 Cancelliere) was born January 12, 1904 in Italy, and died April 30, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married Eleanor Gilardi. She died in Alahambra, Los Angeles Co., California.

Notes for Sam Cangelier/Cancelliere:
BREWERY AT BRACKENRIDGE SCENE OF RAID, Simpson's Leader-Times, Kittanning, Pa., January 25, 1929
Pittsburgh Jan. 24 (UP) - Federal prohibition agents seized the Labor Products and ice Company brewery at Brackenridge early today and confiscated thousands of gallons of "high powered" beer, John D. Pennington, prohibition administrator for the Pittsburgh district announced. Pennington said the action of the dry agents in seizing the brewery was the result of an investigation which revealed that beer of high alcoholic content was being shipped from the plant. Officers of the brewery are Salvatore Cancelliere, president; F. C. Walter, vice president, and Alfred Chalfant, secretary-treasurer, Pennington said.

1935, at 1129 Ridge Ave., Northside

Arrested at a numbers headquarters in 1942, along with his brother, Luccho. May have died in 1947.

'NUMBERS FAMILY' SETTLES TAX CLAIMS
The Pittsburgh Press
February 4, 1954

Three members of the Cangelier [Cancelliere] numbers family have been freed of income tax liens by the U.S. Treasury Dept. The department yesterday instructed the office of Prothonotary David B. Roberts to life liens against the three amounting to $83,267.70, indicating the Government's tax claims have been settled.
The liens, filed April 2, 1952, amounted to $25,977.29 for Samuel Cangelier, $23,583.41 for Helen Cangelier and $33,709.15 for Angelo Cangelier. The amounts represented taxes which the Government figured the three owed on their profits from slot machine and numbers operations.
The settlement with the three Cangeliers was reached by the appellate division of the Treasury Department but the amount was not revealed. A spokesman for the division said any information on the settlement would have to be released by A. J. Dudley, director of the Pittsburgh Office of the Internal Revenue Dept.
However, Mr. Dudley's office, while admitting that a settlement had been reached, declared the amount of the settlement was not available. A spokesman for the department said that where "arbitrary" assessments are made, such as those against the Cangeliers, they are purposely made ceiling high to protect the Government's Interest. "Then they are adjusted or abated on the basis of records and books which are produced," the spokesman added.
The Cangeliers, who have records of numbers and lottery arrests dating back into the 1930s, won the reputation for "charmed lives" in their dealings with the law. After being sentenced to eight months in prison in 1942, Sam was paroled after serving only two months of his term. His brother, Lucho, who drew a six-month sentence, also went free despite the strong opposition of the District Attorney's office.

RIF#: 124-10219-10220 (11/14/62) FBI#: 92-2914-281
On September 18, 1962, PG T-45 advised that there were 236 automobiles at the recent funeral of Sam Cancelliere, who was well known on the North Side of Pittsburgh as a racketeer. The funeral was held from Blanca's [Bianco's] Funeral Home on Brighton Road, Pittsburgh, and among the mourners was Kelly Mannarino and some of his friends from New Kensington. Every known Pittsburgh area racketeer of major or minor status appeared at the wake or funeral at one time or another.

At time of death, a truck driver for the Sun-Telegraph.

EX-RACKET FIGURE DIES, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 1, 1958
Samuel Cancelliere, member of a Northside family that once ruled the Northside numbers racket, died suddenly yesterday. At one time the Cancelliere family, who also spelled their names Cangelier, ran a numbers business with an estimated $30,000 daily take. Samuel, of 1425 Orchlee Street, appeared before the racket-investigating grand jury in 1948. In 1954 he and several other members of the family settled $106,853 in income tax liens for $22,823.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Elanor G. Canclliere; two children, Frances and John Cancelliere; and four brothers, Jack, John, Angelo and Luco Cancelliere. Friends are being received at the Bianco Funeral Home, 719 Brighton Road, Northside. Requiem mass will be celebrated at Regina Coeli Church at 10:45 a.m. Saturday.

More About Sam Cangelier/Cancelliere:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Children of Sam Cangelier/Cancelliere and Eleanor Gilardi are:
21 i. Frances4 Cangelier/Cancelliere.
22 ii. John Cangelier/Cancelliere.


9. Angelo3 Cancelliere (Giovanni2 Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier, Giovanni1 Cancelliere) was born January 11, 1908, and died September 05, 1973. He married Marie Drogan.

Notes for Angelo Cancelliere:
Numbers raid February 1940.

'NUMBERS FAMILY' SETTLES TAX CLAIMS
The Pittsburgh Press
February 4, 1954

Three members of the Cangelier [Cancelliere] numbers family have been freed of income tax liens by the U.S. Treasury Dept. The department yesterday instructed the office of Prothonotary David B. Roberts to life liens against the three amounting to $83,267.70, indicating the Government's tax claims have been settled.
The liens, filed April 2, 1952, amounted to $25,977.29 for Samuel Cangelier, $23,583.41 for Helen Cangelier and $33,709.15 for Angelo Cangelier. The amounts represented taxes which the Government figured the three owed on their profits from slot machine and numbers operations.
The settlement with the three Cangeliers was reached by the appellate division of the Treasury Department but the amount was not revealed. A spokesman for the division said any information on the settlement would have to be released by A. J. Dudley, director of the Pittsburgh Office of the Internal Revenue Dept.
However, Mr. Dudley's office, while admitting that a settlement had been reached, declared the amount of the settlement was not available. A spokesman for the department said that where "arbitrary" assessments are made, such as those against the Cangeliers, they are purposely made ceiling high to protect the Government's Interest. "Then they are adjusted or abated on the basis of records and books which are produced," the spokesman added.
The Cangeliers, who have records of numbers and lottery arrests dating back into the 1930s, won the reputation for "charmed lives" in their dealings with the law. After being sentenced to eight months in prison in 1942, Sam was paroled after serving only two months of his term. His brother, Lucho, who drew a six-month sentence, also went free despite the strong opposition of the District Attorney's office.

ANGELO CANCELLIERE
Angelo Cancelliere, 65, a truck driver for the Post-Gazette, died yesterday (Sept. 5) in Mercy Hospital. Mr. Cancelliere, of 1314 Orchlee St., NOrthside, had worked 10 years for the Post-Gazette. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Marie Drogan Cancelliere; a daughter, Mrs. Frances Fnas, and a brother, John. Friends will be recieved fro 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. today and tomorrow in the PHilip A. Bianco Funeral HOme, 719 Brighton Road, Northside. A mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Peter's Church, Northside. Burial will be in Nortside Catholic Cemetery.


More About Angelo Cancelliere:
Burial: Christ Our Redeemer (North Side) Catholic Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Child of Angelo Cancelliere and Marie Drogan is:
+ 23 i. Frances4 Cancelliere.


10. Lucho (Louis J.)3 Cancelliere/Cangelier (Giovanni2 Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier, Giovanni1 Cancelliere) was born February 12, 1912 in Italy, and died February 17, 1965 in Scott Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married Mary Palilla. She was born July 13, 1920, and died March 04, 2003.

Notes for Lucho (Louis J.) Cancelliere/Cangelier:
Arrested in a numbers headquarters in 1942, along with his brother, Sam. Arrested again in 1944, along with niece Lena and others. The 1944 arrest was his fifth.

More About Lucho (Louis J.) Cancelliere/Cangelier:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Notes for Mary Palilla:
CANCELLIERE
MARY A.
Formerly of Scott Twp. on Tues. March 4, 2003; wife of the late Lucho; beloved mother of John, James, Louis Jr., Frances and Joann; sister of John Palilla and the late Angelo, Charles, Joseph, Lucho Palilla, Lena Platania and Rose Ingros; also survived by ten grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren. Mary will be deeply missed by her entire family. Friends received Thurs. & Fri. BRUSCO-NAPIER FUNERAL HOME, LTD. Broadway & Shiras Aves. Beechview 2-4 & 7-9. Mass in St. Catherine of Siena Church Sat. 9:30 am. Interment in North Side Catholic Cemetery. (PG 3/7/03)

More About Mary Palilla:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Children of Lucho Cancelliere/Cangelier and Mary Palilla are:
24 i. John L. "Vinny"4 Cancelliere, born Abt. 1941; died August 11, 2009. He married Lydia (Brophy).

Notes for John L. "Vinny" Cancelliere:
John L. "Vinny" Cancelliere, age 68, of Baldwin, on August 11, 2009. Beloved son of the late Luccio and Mary Cancelliere; beloved husband of Lydia Cancelliere; loving father of Louis (Angie) Cancelliere, Benjamin Cancelliere, Mary Ann (Gino) Summaria, Rose Marie Krzyzanowski and and father-in-law of Melissa Cancelliere; step-father of Kristy Reed, Fr. Adam Brophy and Thomas Brophy; brother of Jack (Lisa) Cancelliere, Lou (Donna) Cancelliere, Fran Cancelliere and Joanne Bendik; loving grandfather of Luccio, Alicia, Joey, Tyler, Carlo, Ciarra, Nico, Santina and Tallia. Also survived by many loving nieces and newphews. Vinny was a driver for the Post-Gazette for 40 years and became a good friend to all who knew him. Friends will be received at the Savolis-Wasik-Glenn Funeral Home, Inc., 3501 Main Street, Munhall on Thurs. & Fri., 2-4 & 6-9 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial Sat. at 10 a.m. at the Temple of the Cricified One, Homestead.

25 ii. James Cancelliere, died April 1958.
26 iii. Louis Cancelliere. He married Donna (Cancelliere).
27 iv. Frances Cancelliere, born May 1947; died November 13, 2021.

Notes for Frances Cancelliere:
Frances Joann Cancelliere, age 74, of Scott Township, passed away surrounded by her loving family on November 13, 2021. Frances is survived by her siblings, Jack (Lisa) Cancelliere, Louis (Donna) Cancelliere and Joann (Michael) Brownlee; sister-in-law, Loretta Jackson; nieces and nephews, Louie (Jen) Cancelliere, Maryann (Geno) Summaria, Benny (Jessica) Cancelliere, Rose (Joe) Krzyzanowski, Jim (Tatiana) Cancelliere, Matthew Cancelliere, Deanna (Jason) Amenta, Steven (Susie) Cancelliere, Chase Bendick and Michael Bartek; as well as many great and great-great nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Lucho and Mary Cancelliere; and her brother, John Cancelliere. Fran committed her life to taking care of the one's she loved. Gathering with family and friends was always a priority for Fran, she even stayed in touch with some of her friends from Bishop Canevin High School. Fran never missed a sporting event or function to support her family. Fran retired from Kane Hospital Scott Township after 38 years. In her spare time, she enjoyed watching the birds, coloring books and crossword puzzles. Fran will be missed dearly by all she knew for her great sense of humor and her caring heart. Friends will be received on Monday, November 22nd from 2-4 & 6-8 P.M. at the Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home, Inc., 301 Curry Hollow Rd., Pleasant Hills, 15236. A Memorial Service will be held on Tuesday, November 23rd at 2 P.M. at the Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home Chapel.


28 v. Joann Cancelliere, born January 1962. She married (1) (Husband) Bendik. She married (2) Michael Brownlee.
29 vi. Jack Cancelliere. He married Lisa (Cancelliere).


11. Joseph3 Cancelliere (Giovanni2 Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier, Giovanni1 Cancelliere) He married Felice Cannizzaro. She was born April 16, 1903, and died March 04, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..

More About Felice Cannizzaro:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Children of Joseph Cancelliere and Felice Cannizzaro are:
30 i. Salvatore4 Cancelliere, born May 13, 1923 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.; died September 21, 1924 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..

More About Salvatore Cancelliere:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

31 ii. Lena Cancelliere, born March 21, 1922 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.; died January 26, 1926 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..

More About Lena Cancelliere:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.


Generation No. 4

12. Ida4 Cancillieri (John S.3, Charles2 Cancelliere, Giovanni1) was born Abt. 1940. She married Dominick Lepri.

Children of Ida Cancillieri and Dominick Lepri are:
32 i. John C.5 Lepri.
33 ii. Dominick Lepri, born Abt. 1966; died May 1991 in Princeton, West Virginia.

Notes for Dominick Lepri:
DOMINICK LEPRI, The Pittsburgh Press, May 28, 1991
Dominick Lepri III, an accountant, died of injuries received in an auto accident Sunday in Princeton, W.Va. Mr. Lepri, 25, of Peters, Washington County, was an accountant for the firm of Edwards Leap and Sauer of Pittsburgh. According to police, Mr. Lepri was alone in his car when it crashed. No one else was injured. He was pronounced deat at Priinceton Hospital. Mr. Leepri was a 1988 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. He is survived by his parent, Dominick and Ida Cancillieri Lepri, and a brother, John C. Lepri, all of Peters, and his maternal grandmother, Angeline Cancillieri of Bellevue. Friends will be received from 2 to 9 p.m. tomorrow and Thursday at Beinhauer's, 2828 Washington Road, Peters. A funeral mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Friday in St. Benedict the Abbot Catholic Church, 120 Abington Drive, Peters. Burial will be in Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Peters.

More About Dominick Lepri:
Burial: Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Peters Twp., Washington Co., Pa.


15. Frances C.4 Cancelliere (Giacamo "Jack"3 Cancelliere/Cangelier, Giovanni2 Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier, Giovanni1 Cancelliere) was born December 11, 1914 in Pennsylvania, and died February 18, 2007 in Of Brighton Heights. She married Michael "Hogan" LaQuatra, son of Joseph LaQuatra and Michela Sadio. He was born January 09, 1903 in Villarosa, Caltanesetta, Sicily, and died July 13, 1976 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..

Notes for Frances C. Cancelliere:
LAQUATRA
FRANCES C. (CANCELLIERE)
Age 92, of Brighton Heights, on Sunday, February 18, 2007; beloved wife of the late Michael "Hogan" Laquatra; adored mother of Joseph Laquatra (Chris), Rose Marie Lovell (Fred), Nancy Jean McConnell (David), and the late Jack and Marlene Laquatra; dear mother-in-law of Shirley Maiolo; also survived by 11 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Frances was preceded in death by two brothers, John and Angelo Cancelliere and two sisters, Lena Restivo and Rose Tominello. Visitation Tuesday & Wednesday, 2-4 & 7-9pm at T.B. DEVLIN FUNERAL HOME, 806 Perry Hwy., North Hills. Mass of Chrisitian Burial in St. Cyril of Alexandria Church, Thursday, 9:30am. Contributions may be made to St. Jude Children's Hospital, Make-A-Wish or Vincentian-Regency Nursing Home. (PG 2/20/07)

FRANCES CANCELLIERE LAQUATRA - DEC. 11, 1914 - FEB. 18, 2007 CO-FOUNDER OF ROSA VILLA EATERY
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) - February 22, 2007
Author: LINDA WILSON FUOCO, PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE

Frances Cancelliere Laquatra loved people and loved food. She combined those interests by working for virtually all of her adult life at the Rosa Villa restaurant and bar on the North Shore, which her family owned and operated from 1932 to 2004. Mrs. Laquatra, of Brighton Heights, died of natural causes Sunday at Vincentian-Regency Nursing Home in McCandless. She was 92. Mrs. Laquatra started the restaurant with her brothers, the late John and Angelo Cancelliere .
"They had Italian food and just about everything else, too," said her granddaughter, Fran Laquatra of Brighton Heights. "She made soup at her house and took it to the restaurant," which was located at the corner of General Robinson and Sandusky streets. She was still taking soup to the restaurant well into her late 80s." Mrs. Laquatra always enjoyed chatting with customers who still saw her, shortly before the restaurant closed in 2004, chopping vegetables and slicing lunch meat, Ms. Laquatra said.
Rosa Villa had many "regular" customers, including Steelers owner Art Rooney and "Mean" Joe Greene, when he played for the Steelers. Actors Michael Keaton and Dennis Hopper stopped in when they were in town. Mrs. Laquatra grew up in Manchester and she and her late husband, Michael, raised their children there. She later moved to the North Hills and then to Brighton Heights.
She didn't stop cooking when she was off-duty from the family restaurant. "We always had big Sunday dinners at her house," her granddaughter said. "There would be soup and spaghetti and meatballs and everything else in between."
Survivors include a son, Joseph, of Shaler; two daughters, Rose Marie Lovell of Brighton Heights and Nancy Jean McConnell of Shaler; 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated today at 9:30 a.m. at St. Cyril of Alexandria Church. The family suggests memorial contributions to St. Jude Children's Hospital, Make-A-Wish or Vincentian-Regency Nursing Home.

Notes for Michael "Hogan" LaQuatra:
Petition for Citizenship, United States of America No. 90417
District Court of the United States at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Michael Laquatra, 1118 W. North Ave., N.S., Pittsburgh, Pa. Boxer
Born January 9, 1903 at Caltanisetta, Italy
Declared intent to become a citizen January 25, 1927 at District Court of the United States at Pittsburgh, Pa.
Last foreign residene was Caltanisetta, Italy.
Immigrated to the US from Palermo Italy and entered the US under the name of Michele Pratellino, April 21, 1911 on the Re d'Italia
Resided in the US since April 21, 1911 and Allegheny County from October, 1921.
Witnesses: James Rooney, student, 29 Robinson St., N.S., and Ernest Whitworth, policeman, 806 Beltzhoover Avenue, both of Pittsburgh.

1940 CENSUS PA Allegheny Co. Pittsburgh Ward 21 ED 69-636 Family 191, 1116 West North Avenue (next to Peter Capizzi)
Michael LaQuortra, 36, IT, bartender at restaurant
Frances, 25; Joseph, 7; Jack, 5; Michaela, mother, 78, IT

Mass Today For Ex-Boxer "Mike Hogan"
Michael LaQuatra, who boxed in the 1920s under the ring name of Mike Hogan, died in Divine Providence Hospital Tuesday, July 13, 1976. Mr. LaQuatra, 71, of 1220 Davis Ave., 27th Ward, also refereed boxing and wrestling for 25 years. He was a retired truck driver for the county. Surviving are his widow, Frances Canceilliere LaQuatra, three children, Rose Marie Lucas, Nancy Jean Clark and Joseph LaQuatra, one sister, Nancy Capizzi, and seven grandchildre. Mass of christian Burial will be sung at 9:30 a.m. today, Saturday, in Regina Coeli Roman Catholic Church, North Side. Burial will be in North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross.

Michael LaQuatra, who boxed in the 1920s under the ring name Mike Hogan and refereed boxing and wrestling for 25 years, died yesterday (July 13) in Divine providence Hospital. Mr. LaQuatra, 71, of 1220 Davis Ave., Northside, was a retired truck driver for Allegheny County. He is survived by his wife. Mrs. Frances Cancelliere LaQuatra; a son, Joseph; two daughters, Mrs. Rose Marie Lucas and Mrs. Nancy Jean Clark; and a sister, Mrs. Nancy Capizzi; and seven grandchildren. Friends will be received today, tomorrow and Friday at the Philip A. Bianco Funeral Home, 719 Brighton Road, Northside. A mass will be offered at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Regina Coeli Catholic Church, Juanita Street, Northside. Burial will be in Northside Catholic Cemetery. [PG July 15, 1976]

More About Michael "Hogan" LaQuatra:
Burial: Christ Our Redeemer Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Children of Frances Cancelliere and Michael LaQuatra are:
34 i. Rose Marie5 LaQuatra. She married (1) Fred Lovell. She married (2) (Husband) Lucas.
35 ii. Nancy Jean LaQuatra. She married (1) (Husband) Clark. She married (2) David McConnell.
+ 36 iii. Joseph J. Laquatra, born Abt. 1933; died December 25, 2010.
37 iv. Jack LaQuatra, born Abt. 1935.
38 v. Marleen LaQuatra, born 1941.


16. Lena M.4 Cancelliere (Giacamo "Jack"3 Cancelliere/Cangelier, Giovanni2 Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier, Giovanni1 Cancelliere) was born April 23, 1916 in Yatesboro, CowanshannockTwp., Armstrong Co., Pa., and died April 09, 1990 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.. She married Joseph C. Restivo, son of Santo Restivo and Annetta Profeta. He was born October 10, 1909 in Yatesboro, CowanshannockTwp., Armstrong Co., Pa., and died November 23, 1974.

Notes for Lena M. Cancelliere:
Lena M. Restivo, 70, died Monday, April 9, 1990, of a heart attack at her home on the North Side. Mrs. Restivo co-owned the Rosa Villa Restaurant on the North Side with her late brother John J. Cancelliere. She was a member of Regina Coeli Roman Catholic Church in Manchester. She is survived by three daughters, Frances Shrager of Murrysville, Antoinette Rennebeck of the North Side, and Mary DeMarco of Fayette city; a son, John Cancelliere of Shaler; a sister, Frances Laquatra of the North Side; a brother Angelo Cancelliere of the North Side; and 12 grandchildren. A Mass of Christian Burial was held April 11 at Regina Coeli Church. Burial was at the North Side Catholic Cemetery in Ross.

More About Lena M. Cancelliere:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Notes for Joseph C. Restivo:
Operated a Northside dry cleaning business. In 1952, operated the cleaning and pressing concession at the Army base at the airport. In 1952, withdrew a bid for the valet concession at Greater Pittsburgh Airport after it was revealed that he had been arrested five times since 1929, the most recent being a lottery charge in 1947.

More About Joseph C. Restivo:
Burial: North Side Catholic Cemetery, Ross Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.

Children of Lena Cancelliere and Joseph Restivo are:
39 i. Frances5 Restivo.
40 ii. Antoinette Restivo. She married (Husband) Rennebeck.
41 iii. Mary Restivo.
42 iv. John Restivo.


20. John P.4 Cangelier (John Dinni3 Cangelier/Cancelliere, Giovanni2 Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier, Giovanni1 Cancelliere) was born 1930 in Pennsylvania, and died November 24, 2020. He married Margaret Makatura. for Margaret Makatura:
MARGARET M. "PEG" CANGELIER, Age 74, peacefully, on Thursday, January 19, 2023. Beloved wife for 46 years of the late John P. Cangelier; devoted daughter of late Clarence and Genevieve Makatura; stepmother of John, Jr. and Lou (Colleen) Cangelier; sister of the late Genevieve and Charles Baer, Dorothy (the late Walt) Jaworski and Sandy (Lou) Favario; aunt of Michael (Sandy) Baer and the late Michelle (survived by Bob) LaCivita. She will be greatly missed by her granddaughters, nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. Peg worked at the Allegheny County Courthouse for 48 years and before that, was a Stewardess for TWA. She enjoyed traveling, shopping online, and challenging herself with trivia games. Most of all, she enjoyed being with family, especially during the holidays. The Service and Entombment in Christ Our Redeemer Cemetery Mausoleum will be Private.

Children of John Cangelier and Margaret Makatura are:
43 i. John5 Cangelier.
44 ii. Louis Cangelier.


23. Frances4 Cancelliere (Angelo3, Giovanni2 Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier, Giovanni1 Cancelliere) She married (Husband) Fonas.

Child of Frances Cancelliere and (Husband) Fonas is:
45 i. Michael Angelo5 Fonas.


Generation No. 5

36. Joseph J.5 Laquatra (Frances C.4 Cancelliere, Giacamo "Jack"3 Cancelliere/Cangelier, Giovanni2 Cancelliere/Cangelliere/Congolier, Giovanni1 Cancelliere) was born Abt. 1933, and died December 25, 2010. He married Christine L. Kempinski Abt. 1969. She was born Abt. 1947.

Notes for Joseph J. Laquatra:
Godson of Nancy Rotondo.

In 1994, owner of Rosa Villa Restaurant, North Side.

LAQUATRA JOSEPH
Age 77, of Shaler Twp., on Saturday December 25, 2010. Loved husband of 41 years to Christine (Kempinski) Laquatra; father of Frances M. Laquatra (Michael Hoffman), Michael J. Laquatra, Joseph J. Laquatra (Carrie) and Lori L. Laquatra; brother of Rose Marie Lovell (Fred), Nancy Jean McConnell (David) and the late Jack and Marlene Laquatra; brother-in-law of Shirley Maiolo; grandfather of Joseph and Lucca Laquatra and Devin and Olivia Hoffman. Friends received Monday and Tuesday 1-8 p.m. at T.B. DEVLIN FUNERAL HOME 806 Perry Hwy., North Hills. Mass of Christian Burial in St. Sebastian Church Wednesday 10:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions to St. Jude's Children Hospital Make-A-Wish Foundation or Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Dominick Anzalone- Transferred to San Jose


Descendants of Domenico Anzalone


Generation No. 1

1. Domenico1 Anzalone was born February 11, 1903 in Ventimiglia, Palermo, Sicily, and died November 14, 1983 in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., California. He married (1) Francesca Capisi 1922 in Sicily. He married (2) Antoinette "Anna" Panarella 1929 in Cumberland, Maryland, daughter of Spirione Panarella and Vitina Criscione. She was born March 12, 1910 in Johnstown, Cambria Co., Pa., and died January 02, 1999 in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., California.

Notes for Domenico Anzalone:
Capodecina

Feather says Anzalone arrived in the US in 1928. The 1930 census indicates 1922.

Sometime between 1922 and 1929 Anzalone was employed at Bethlehem Steel in Johnstown.

Anzalone, 51, admitted he was in Italy as a boy, stating his first recollection of that country was when he was a five-year-old youngster "chasing a jackass from one side of the road to the other." He said he moved to Belle Vernon in 1929 after working in a steel mill in Johnstown. Before that, he said, he had worked as a bricklayer in New York after coming to the United States in 1922 aboard a coal ship, shoveling coal in the engine room. (1954 deportation hearing)

This looks like Anzalone:
1930 CENSUS PA Westmoreland Co. North Belle Vernon ED 123 Family 602
Dominic Anglo, 28,m at 27, IT arr 1922, laborer at glass plant
Anna, 20, m at 19

In 1934, supposedly charged with blackmail in Uniontown.

In 1946, advertised bowling alleys in Monessen for sale.

The informant pointed out that Anzalone originally came to the United States on a specific assignment ordered by the Mafia in Sicily. He was to kill John Bondi, who had fled from Sicily to Pittsburgh, Pa., after killing three members of the Mafia in Sicily. Bondi, who is now deceased, was a cousin of Tony Lima. Because Anzalone was a close friend of the father of Tony Lima, Lima stepped in to act as peacemaker, and Bondi and Anzalone became friends. Anzalone later became a member of the Steve Monastero Family in Pittsburgh.
While living in Pittsburgh, prior to the takeover by John LaRocca, Anzalone learned through the grapevine that his wife, a resident of Sicily, was having a love affair. It was mandatory at that time that a La Cosa Nostra member avenge this disgrace and Anzalone returned to Sicily to kill both his wife and her lover. Instead of doing this, he forgave his wife, separated from her, and returned to Pittsburgh. He had dishonored himself and was dropped from the Monastero Family. He was reinstated by Pepoino Siracusa following the death of Monastero and he again became active in La Cosa Nostra activities.
(FBI records)

Anzalone was convicted of falsely claiming US citizenship in 1951. Subsequently, an attempt was made to deport him, hearing in 1954.

Anzalone's motel near Brownsville was listed for tax sale on July 26, 1954.

Anzalone was ordered deported in 1966, but won his appeal in 1967.

California Death Index, 1940-1997: Domenic Anzalone, SSN: 168305349
Birth Date: 11 Feb 1903; Birthplace: Other Country; Death Date: 14 Nov 1983;Death Place: Santa Cruz
Mother's Maiden Name: Urso



More About Domenico Anzalone:
Burial: Holy Cross Mausoleum, Santa Cruz, California

Notes for Francesca Capisi:
On March 15, Anzalone's former wife, Francesca, of Palermo, Sicily, attempted through the Italian consul in Pittsburgh to halt her husband's divorce proceedings against her.. The divorce, however, has been granted by Westmoreland county Judge Edward G. Bauer on July 27, 1950. The original suit was filed in May 1950 and court records show that Mrs. Anzalone accepted the divorce papers which had been sent her by registered mail. The charges made in the divorce proceedings were not made public since the papers were impounded by the court.

Notes for Antoinette "Anna" Panarella:
Anna and Domenico were married initally in 1929, in Cumberland, Maryland. At the time, he was also married to Francesca, who remained in Sicily. He divorced Francesca in 1950, and remarried Anna in Pittsburgh in 1952.

ANA ANZALONE, Santa Cruz Sentinel, 1/9/99
Private services were held for Ana Anzalone, who died Sunday in Santa Cruz. She was 88. Mrs. Anzalone was born in Pennsylvania and had lived in the Santa Cruz area since 1972. She is survived by son Joseph Anzalone of Santa Cruz; brother James Panarella of Pennsylvania; two grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren. Her husband of 68 years, Dominic Anzalone, died in 1983. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Wednesday at Holy Cross Mission Chapel. Burial followed at Holy Cross Mausoleum where she was laid next to her husband. Arrangements were handled by Norman's Family Chapel, 3620 Soquel Drive, Soquel. Remembrances are preferred to Dominican Hospital Foundation, 1555 Soquel Drive, Santa Cruz; or Holy Cross Church, 126 High St., Santa Cruz.

More About Antoinette "Anna" Panarella:
Burial: Holy Cross Mausoleum, Santa Cruz, California

Child of Domenico Anzalone and Antoinette Panarella is:
+ 2 i. Joseph Thomas2 Anzalone, born September 1931.


Generation No. 2

2. Joseph Thomas2 Anzalone (Domenico1) was born September 1931. He married Lavonne Ruth Feightner September 1955. She was born Abt. 1933.

Notes for Joseph Thomas Anzalone:
Graduated from Vernon High School in 1949, and the Univiersity of Pitttsburgh in 1953.

Children of Joseph Anzalone and Lavonne Feightner are:
3 i. Mark3 Anzalone.
4 ii. Hallie Anzalone. She married Daniel Carl.

George Adragna

Descendants of Giuseppe Adragna


Generation No. 1

1. Giuseppe1 Adragna was born January 01, 1866 in Alcamo, Trapani Prov., Sicily, and died February 11, 1931 in Kings Co., New York. He married Giuseppina Filippi, daughter of Vincente Filippi and Liboria Camarta. She was born November 11, 1882 in Alcamo, Trapani Prov., Sicily, and died May 1973 in ?California.

Notes for Giuseppe Adragna:
Arrived in NYC 14 August 1901 aboard the Sicilia. At time of naturalization in 1907, residing 195 Johnson Ave., Brooklyn, a saloon keeper.

There was a Giuseppe Adragna who was convicted of extortion in New York in April 1909 and sentenced to 4 yrs 6 mo. with 5 years maximum in Sing Sing Prison. His sentence was commuted on July 2, 1918, to 1 year 23 months in Sing Sing, with a 5 year maximum, from June 22, 1917.

In 1924, Giuseppe, wife and children arrived in NYC. Giuseppe was naturalized, in 1907

In 1925, in Brooklyn.

1930 CENSUS NY Kings Co Brooklyn ED 149 Family 48, 223 Johnson Ave.
Giuseppe Adragna, 55, m at 30, IT arr 1896, Na, retailer grocery owner
Giuseppina, 48, m at 22, IT arr 1906; Lavonia, 21, NY; George, 20, at sea; Rose, 16, IT arr 1924; Vito, 12, IT arr 1924; Joseph, 5, NY

This may be "Joe l'Alcamese" mentioned by Gentile in his autobiography.



Notes for Giuseppina Filippi:
In 1940 listed in census as a widow, residing at Johnson Ave. in Brooklyn.

In 1950, residing in Brooklyn.

Children of Giuseppe Adragna and Giuseppina Filippi are:
+ 2 i. Frank Joseph2 Adragna, born October 21, 1891 in Alcamo, Trapani, Sicily; died December 25, 1962 in Sewickley, Allegheny Co., Pa..
3 ii. Vincenzo Adragna, born March 23, 1901.
4 iii. Francesca Adragna, born December 10, 1903 in Brooklyn, New York. She married (Husband) Adamo.
5 iv. Antonio Adragna, born May 17, 1906 in Brooklyn, New York.
6 v. Liboria (Bertha) Adragna, born June 04, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York; died February 17, 2000. She married Lorenzo Locascio April 25, 1937 in Kings Co., New York.
+ 7 vi. George Adragna, born November 27, 1909 in Alcamo, Trapani Prov., Sicily; died June 01, 1986 in San Jose, Santa Clara Co., California.
8 vii. Rose Adragna, born February 16, 1914 in Sicily; died May 19, 1999 in ?California. She married Peter Bova; born March 19, 1917.
+ 9 viii. Vito Frank Adragna, born May 02, 1917 in Alcamo, Trapani Prov., Sicily; died April 07, 2008 in San Jose, Santa Clara Co., California.
10 ix. Joseph Vito Adragna, born Abt. 1925 in New York; died Abt. 2010.

Notes for Joseph Vito Adragna:
Member of LCN in New York City. According to Anzalone, Joseph was "sharper" than his brother, George.


Generation No. 2

2. Frank Joseph2 Adragna (Giuseppe1) was born October 21, 1891 in Alcamo, Trapani, Sicily, and died December 25, 1962 in Sewickley, Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married Mallie Dellavecchia Bet. 1930 - 1939, daughter of Antonio Dellavecchia and Rosella Cannella. She was born August 18, 1903 in Pennsylvania, and died January 27, 1996.

Notes for Frank Joseph Adragna:
May have been a bartender in Brooklyn in 1917.

1940 CENSUS PA Allegheny Co. Pittsburgh Ward 2 ED 69-20 Family 35, 64 Washington Place
Frank Adragna, 46, IT, retail grocery proprietor
Mollie, 36; Raymond Daniels, 20; Rose Daniels, 19; Gloria Daniels, 13; Francis Adragna, 3/12

64 Washington Place was the address of Mallie in the 1930 census, with her first husband, Eugene Daniels.

WWII Draft Registration 1942
Frank Adragna, 64 Washington St., Allegheny Co., Pa.
Age 51, born Oct. 21, 1891 at Alcamo, Italy
Self-employed at Harmony, Butler Co., Pa.
Contact - Joseph Spagnolo, Ambridge, Pa.

At time of death, residing at 462 Merchant St., Ambridge, Beaver Co., Pa., a cafe and restaurant owner.

ADRAGNA, suddenly on Christmas, Dec. 25, 1962, Frank Joseph, of 460 Merchant St., Ambridge, Pa. (formerly of Pgh), beloved husband of Mallie Della Vecchia; father of Frances Gianmaria, Raymond Daniels, Rose Picucco and Gloria Berardelli; six grandchildren; son of Josephine Adragna; brother of George, Vito and Joseph Adragna, Frances Adamo, Pauline LoCascio and Rosa Bova. Friends received at the Raymond S. Phillips Funeral Home, 1923 Broadway Ave., Beechview. Funeral Saturday. Requiem high mass in the Church of the Epiphany at 10 a.m.In 1917, an employee of the Erie RR, living in a railroad car at Sharon, Mercer Co., Pa.

In 1942, residing at 64 Washington St., Pittsburgh. Self-employed at Harmony, Butler Co., Pa.

At time of death, resident of 462 Marchant St., Ambridge, Pa., a cafe & restaurant owner. Information given by Gloria Berardelli, 1549 Methyl St., Pittsburgh 16, Pa.

Feather lists him as a soldier, born Monte San Giuliano, Trapani, Sicily, arriving in US in 1910. Active 1930s-1960s.

More About Frank Joseph Adragna:
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Notes for Mallie Dellavecchia:
MALLIE DANIELS ADRAGNA, on Sat., Jan. 27, 1996; wife of the late Frank; mother of Raymond Daniels, Rose Piciucco, Gloria Berardelli and Frances Giammaria; also survived by eight grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Friends received at the Brusco-Napier Funeral Home, Ltd., Boradway at Shiras Ave., Beechview, 2-4 & 7-9 Mon. and Tues. Notice of Funeral Mass later. Interment in Calvary Cemetery. Member of the ISDA Verity Lodge.

More About Mallie Dellavecchia:
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Child of Frank Adragna and Mallie Dellavecchia is:
11 i. Francis3 Adragna, born Abt. 1939; Stepchild. She married (Husband) Giamaria.


7. George2 Adragna (Giuseppe1) was born November 27, 1909 in Alcamo, Trapani Prov., Sicily, and died June 01, 1986 in San Jose, Santa Clara Co., California. He married Rosalia LoCicero Abt. 1947 in New York City, New York. She was born April 20, 1918, and died December 21, 2005 in San Jose, Santa Clara Co., California.

Notes for George Adragna:
FBI File #92-4347, Pgh File #92-398

May have been involved in a counterfeit money case in 1929, under name George Drana.

In 1930 still in Brooklyn with parents.

Appears to have been arrested in October, 1936, in connection witness intimidation in the murder trial of Patsy Dinello, accused of slaying Nick Villella.

In 1939 residing McDonald St., Pittsburgh.

In 1942 was residing in Allegheny County.

In 1950, residing at Fisher Heights, Monongahela, Washington Co., Pa.

Anzalone claimed at his 1954 deportation hearing that his friend, George Adragna, mailed his alien registration card for him in 1953.

Involved with Anzalone and Frank Plisko in the 1950s in a scrap metal business.

1963, Orbit Billiards, 467 Donner Avenue, Monessen, August Bucci and George Adragna, partners. [The Valley Independent, April 2, 1962]

George Adragna, 76, former owner of the Brownsville Motel and the Brownsville Steakhouse, currently Morrison's Restaurant, and his wife Rose, 66, both of San Jose, California, have been indicted on charges of conspiracy to smuggle and distribute heroin. Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration arrested the Adragnas along with eleven other alleged heroin smugglers, most of them from Marsielles, France and Palermo, Italy. They are believed to be responsible for a significant portion of the U. S. heroin market. [Brownsville Times, February, 1986]

George Adragna (70's-1984) Soldier in the Pittsburgh Crime Family and brother of San Jose mobster Vito Adragna. Was based in the San Jose area in the 70's and early 80's. __gangsterbb.net

More About George Adragna:
Burial: Mon Valley Memorial Park, Donora, Washington Co., Pa.

Notes for Rosalia LoCicero:
ADRAGNAS CELEBRATE 25 YEARS, The Valley Independent, January 25, 1972
Mr. and Mrs. George Adragna of San Jose, Calif., celebrated their silver wedding anniversary at a dinner party in Zorba's Restaurant, San Jose. There were 50 guests in attendance. Host and hostess for the occasion were the couple's son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Adragna. They also have a daughter, Olivia, a high school senior, and there are two grandchildren in the family. The Adragnas were former residents of Wickerham Drive, Monongahela, before moving to San Jose. They were married in New York City. Special guests at the anniversary party were the couple's honor attendants at their wedding, Mr. and Mrs. Domenick Anzalone, formerly of Belle Vernon, now of Santa Cruz.

More About Rosalia LoCicero:
Burial: Mon Valley Memorial Park, Donora, Washington Co., Pa.

Children of George Adragna and Rosalia LoCicero are:
12 i. Joseph3 Adragna, born Abt. 1947.
13 ii. Olivia Adragna, born Abt. 1954.


9. Vito Frank2 Adragna (Giuseppe1) was born May 02, 1917 in Alcamo, Trapani Prov., Sicily, and died April 07, 2008 in San Jose, Santa Clara Co., California. He married Lena Antonia Spagnolo September 04, 1936. She was born November 25, 1919 in Ambridge, Beaver Co., Pa., and died December 02, 2002 in Los Gatos, Santa Clara Co., California.

Notes for Vito Frank Adragna:

1940 CENSUS PA Allegheny Co. Leet Twp. Fair Oaks, ED 2-259Family 252, 417 Ambridge St.
Vito Adragna, 22, IT naturalized, NY in 1935, electrician, electrical contractor
Lena, 20, Ambridge, Beaver Co. in 1935.

In 1957, a professional bondsman, residing at Allison Heights, Luzerne Twp., Fayette County.
In 1958, owner of A & A Coin Machine Co., Brownsville, Fayette County.
In 1960, arrested at his home charged with being the head of a numbers ring.
Newspaper articles of the time reported his residence as Alicia Heights, Brownsville.
1962, some stories relating to his son Joseph.
1963, two raids on his property, netting numerous coin-operated machines, by the State Police.
1963, V A Coin Machine Co.
By September 1964, Vito had relocated to California, and his vacant house was destroyed by fire.
In 1965 three properties owned by Vito and Lena Adragna in Luzerne Twp. were on a delinquent tax list, and by 1971 30 acres owned by Adragna in Menallen Twp. were up for sheriff's sale.

Brownsville numbers writer. Relocated to San Jose, California in the early 1960s, as did Dominic Anzalone.

Owner, Acme Vending Co. and A & A Coin Machine Co.

FBI files, juke box operator in Pittsburgh (?Mon Valley or Brownsville). Associate of Anzalone. In 1963, started AAA Coinamatic Company in San Jose, California, out of his son Joseph's residence. He formerly operated Brownsville Coin Machine Company out of his residence in Brownsville RD1.

124-10277-10297 (12/13/63) FBI#: 92-6054-556 (LCN)
Vito Adragna
On May 23, 1963, SF T1 advised Dominick Anzalone, while at the Peter Piper Motors, San Jose, California, on May 23, 1963, introduced Vito Adragna as "a friend of ours". Anzalone indicated that Adragna was the father of Joe Adragna who had recently moved from Pennsylvania to San Jose. Vito Adragna reported that he had flown into San Jose from Pittsburgh where he handled a juke box business and that he had come to San Jose to visit with his son. Information was subsequently received indicating Vito Adragna had purchased a residence in San Jose and intended to move from Brownsville, Pennsylvania, to San Jose.
On November 18, 1963 SF T3 advised Vito Adragna had been intoduced to him as a friend of Dominick Anzalone who had moved from Pennsylvania to San Jose. Adragna advised SF T3 that he was now in business in San Jose under the AAA Coinamatic Company, listing his business and residence address as 1585 Alisal, San Jose. It is noted this address is the same as the residence of Joseph and Josephine Adragna, a son and daughter-in-law of Vito.
The Pittsburgh office advised on September 6, 1963, that Vito Adragna operated the Brownsville Coin Machine Company out of his residence which was RD Number 1, Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Adragna was reported to be a close associate of Dominick Anzalone, the alleged former leader of gambling activities in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Vito Adragna (1917-2008) wikia.com
Vito Adragna was born in New York City to a Sicilian family. They relocated to Pittsburgh, PA, when he was ten years old. In the 1940s Adragna started working as a mob associate under Pittsburgh Family capo, Antonio Repipi. Adragna was involved in bookmaking, illegal gambling and illegal coin machine operations. In 1962 Adragna moved to San Jose and became a member of the San Jose Family. Him and three others were arrested in April 1977 after a year-long investigation by the organized crime unit of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Department. The probe involved attemps to "fix" a horse race in March 1977 at Golden Gate Fields in Albany. Adragna was charged with maintaining a place for bookmaking, attempted administration of a drug to a race horse and two counts of conspiracy. Adragna pleaded no contest to a charge of conspiring to engage in bookmaking, and the other charges were dismissed. He was fined $400 and placed on one year's summary (court) probation. He was the owner of the ACME Vending Co. from 1967 until his death in 2008.

Adragna, Vito
* soldier of San Jose Mafia Family
* formerly associated with Pittsburgh Mafia Family
* brother of George Adragna, member of Pittsburgh Mafia Family
* owner of the ACME Vending Company
* born on May 1, 1917 in New York City
* passed away on April 7, 2008 in San Jose __gangsterbb.net

Something leads me to believe that San Jose was originally under the Pittsburgh family until the late 50s. The reason I think this is because of the fact that most of the original members were from Pittsburgh, PA. Angelo Marino's father Salvatore and Vito Adragna's brother George were both members of the Pittsburgh family. Dominick Anzalone also lived in Pittsburgh before moving to San Jose. [http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php] The Zoccolis were originally from western Pennsylvania as well.

More About Vito Frank Adragna:
Burial: Santa Clara Mission Cemetery, Santa Clara Co., California

Notes for Lena Antonia Spagnolo:
ADRAGNA, Lena-- in Los Gatos, CA December 2, 2002. Beloved wife of Vito F. Adragna for 66 years as of September 4, 2002. Loving mother of Josephine Clark and husband Bud, Joseph Adragna and wife Marie, Marie Bailey and husband Mike, Antoinette Surma and husband Don and Vito Adragna, Jr., and wife Lucy. Dear sister of 2 sisters. Adoring grandmother of Charles, David, Noelle, Vito, Christopher, Vito III, Carlos, Megan and Michelle and 5 great-grandchildren. A native of Ambridge, PA. Age 83 years. Funeral Mass on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at St. Christopher's Church. Entombment at Santa Clara Mission Cemetery. Arrangements by CHAPEL OF FLOWERS. Published in San Jose Mercury News on December 4, 2002

More About Lena Antonia Spagnolo:
Burial: Santa Clara Mission Cemetery, Santa Clara Co., California

Children of Vito Adragna and Lena Spagnolo are:
14 i. Josephine3 Adragna, born Abt. 1943. She married Charles Wayne "Bud" Clark June 14, 1964 in St. Christopher Church, San Jose, California.
15 ii. Joseph Adragna, born Abt. 1943. He married Marie (Adragna).

Notes for Joseph Adragna:
Attended Penn Commercial College, Washington, Pa., in 1962. In early 1963, it was announced he was resuming his studies. In February, 1963, Josephine Adragna resigned her duties as a bank bookkeeper to relocate to San Jose, California. And by March, an article in the papers indicated that Joseph had also relocated to California.

16 iii. Marie Adragna, born Abt. 1952. She married Michael Bailey.
17 iv. Antoinette Adragna. She married Donald Surma.
18 v. Vito Adragna, born April 14, 1955. He married Lucy (Adragna).
19 vi. Joseph Adragna, born October 28, 1938; died January 11, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York.

More About Joseph Adragna:
Burial: St. John's Cemetery

coldshoulder wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 1:40 pm Holy shit, JCB, that's some super impressive and exhaustingly extensive research work. Do you have any idea of how many hours (or days, weeks, months, years...) all that you posted here today took you?

Much respect and appreciation.

Approaching 30 years...keep in mind when I started all this research in 1995, I had to go to library to comb through micro-fish. Plus, no ancestry documents were available then. The internet helped speed things up...along with Family search, ancestry, the Reggio Calabria archives and other archives in Italy. Thank you. Hope you enjoy the info.

B. wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 12:57 pm Great stuff, my friend.

With Murgie's father and brothers being involved in the life early on and his first cousin being Chicago member Joe "Bulger" Imburgia, I suspect they come from an older mafia clan.

Pittsburgh is one of the most interesting Families in terms of genealogy and you've helped shed a lot of light.

Thanks B. Feel free to correct any info you may come across that contradicts any of this.

Henry "Zebo" Zottola

Descendants of Henry (Enrico) Zottola


Generation No. 1

1. Henry (Enrico)2 Zottola (Vincenzo1) was born December 23, 1895 in Spigno-Saturnia, Latina, Lazio, Italy, and died November 25, 1968. He married Frances Rotundo, daughter of Cosmo Piccoli and Angela Ragazzini. She was born 1901, and died 1967.

Notes for Henry (Enrico) Zottola:
Arrived in Philadelphia aboard the Taormina July 3, 1913.

Naturalized after having served in the Army during WWI.

In 1942, a self-employed trucker living at 353 Omega St.

ZOTTOLA, on Monday, Nov. 25, 1968, Henry Sr., beloved husband of the late Frances Rotondo; father of Tressa Sirocco, Jean D'Achille, Henry Jr., and V. Joseph; also six grandchildren. Friends will be received at the Michael F. DeRosa Mortuary, Paulson Ave. (at Winslow St.) until Friday at 9 a.m. Solemn requiem high mass in Our Lady Help o Christin's Church at 9:30 a.m. Visitaions 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.

More About Henry (Enrico) Zottola:
Burial: Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Penn Hills, Allegheny Co., Pa.

More About Frances Rotundo:
Burial: Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Penn Hills, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Children of Henry Zottola and Frances Rotundo are:
+ 2 i. Henry Albert "Zebo"3 Zottola, born July 19, 1936 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.; died August 20, 1998 in Allegheny Co., Pa..
3 ii. Vincent Joseph Zottola. He married Dolly Dlutowski.


Generation No. 2

2. Henry Albert "Zebo"3 Zottola (Henry (Enrico)2, Vincenzo1) was born July 19, 1936 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa., and died August 20, 1998 in Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married (1) Rosalie Marie Calcagno May 27, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa., daughter of Frank Calcagno and Esther DelCampo. She was born September 15, 1939. He married (2) Sheila Naomi Cataldo Aft. 1961, daughter of Chester Cataldo and Emma Dougan. She was born March 15, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa., and died December 06, 1996 in Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina. He married (3) Jeanne M. Martorella January 22, 1980 in Clark Co., Nevada. She was born May 02, 1953.

Notes for Henry Albert "Zebo" Zottola:
Sept. 13, 1957, arrested as a numbers "pick-up man", in Lincoln/Lemington.

1971, arrested for stolen postage stamps, with Albert Vensel.

In early 1970s, residing in New Cumberland, West Virginia, with wife Sheila.

Around 1977, name assocated with Las Vegas junkets.

Henry A. "Zebo" Zottola (Zottola) was closely associated with "Jo-Jo" Pecora and involved in loan-sharking, gambling, and financing narcotics transactions. See GEB Exs. 92 (Excerpts from: Organized Crime in Pennsylvania: A Decade of Change”, 1990 Report (Pennsylvania Crime Commission), 105 (PA Crime Commission March 1989 Pittsburgh LCN Family Chart); Tr. 53. After Jo-Jo Pecora’s death, Zotolla associated with Porter. See GEB Ex. 92 (1990 PA Crime Report).

One-time president of Rocca italian Foods, which operated in a warehouse owned by Angelo Medure.

LaRocca Jr. is the son of Pittsburgh LCN boss, LaRocca Sr. Neither the FBI nor the PA Crime Commission have ever listed LaRocca Jr. as having any role in the Pittsburgh LCN. While serving as a Local 1058 business agent, LaRocca Jr. was involved in a video arcade business with Raucci Jr. and Zottola. Tr. 710, 1346-1350. LaRocca Jr. began the business at his father’s behest, which closed within eight months of opening. Tr. 1346-1350.

In 1982, registered business, Universal Arcade, Universal Shopping Center, Universal Rd.

In 1984 bought two properties in Oakmont, 327 Allegheny Ave. and 318 Washington Ave.

According to JCB, was "made" by Genovese in 1989, the last to be "made" in Pittsburgh.

In 1997, co-owner of S&S Carpet Service Inc. of Turtle Creek with Jeffrey Scampone.

HENRY A. ZOTTOLA LOCAL ORGANIZED CRIME FIGURE RECENTLY SENTENCED, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA), August 22, 1998, by Bill Heltzel
Henry A. ``Zebo'' Zottola, 63, a reputed organized crime figure from Plum, died Thursday. In May, Mr. Zottola was sentenced in federal court to one year of home detention and two years of probation for his role in laundering money in the Rincon Indian's River Oaks Casino near San Diego. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to obstruct the National Indian Gaming Commission and to bribing a tribe official for a casino management contract.
The cause and place of death was not disclosed. However, before he was sentenced three months ago, a physician testified that Mr. Zottola had cancer and needed a bone marrow transplant. ``I'm sorry he passed away but I'm glad he was not in prison,'' said Assistant U.S. Attorney Bruce J. Teitelbaum. ``No one wanted the guy to suffer and die in prison.''
It was the Pennsylvania Crime Commission that connected Mr. Zottola to the organized crime family headed by Sebastian John LaRocca, who died in 1984, and by Michael Genovese since then. In 1989, the crime commission, which has since been disbanded, described Mr. Zottola as a major mob income-producer. Its 1990 report said he was involved in loan sharking, illegal numbers, sports betting and financing of narcotics transactions. His territory was eastern Allegheny County and he was believed to be a conduit of illegal gambling profits from associates in Youngstown, Ohio.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was involved with the late mob underboss, Joseph Pecora, in J&Z Vending of Chester, W. Va. and protected Pecora's territory while Pecora was imprisoned in 1979, the crime commission reported. In the 1980s, he was employed by Rocca's Italian Foods Inc. of New Castle, and Z&F Development Co. of North Huntingdon. In the early 1990s he was part-owner of S&S Carpet Service Inc. of Turtle Creek. In 1993, the U.S. Attorney's Office scrutinized S&S's contract for installing carpet and tile at Pittsburgh International Airport. No charges were ever filed.
When a reporter questioned him about the S&S contract and about allegations of organized crime activity, Mr. Zottola called the crime commission ``a joke.'' He said he hadn't written numbers since he was 16 years old and he denied the commission's claims. ``It just seems like some people aren't allowed to make a legitimate living,'' he said. ``They just try to ruin anything you do.''
Mr. Zottola is survived by his wife, Jeannie; two daughters, Tia Knauss and Danielle Zottola; a brother, Joseph; and a granddaughter.
Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. today and tomorrow at William F. Gross Funeral Home, 11735 Frankstown Road, Penn Hills. The funeral will begin at 9:45 a.m. Monday at Our Lady of Joy Church, 2000 O'Block Road, Plum.

Henry "Zebo" Zottola: Age: Died in 1998 at age 62. Background: A member of the LaRocca/Genovese crime family who collected money from loan sharks, bookies and drug dealers. He served as the liaison between Pittsburgh and Youngstown, Ohio, mobsters. He was convicted with Conley in the Indian casino scheme. (GOING FOR BROKE, Tribune-Review, by Jason Cato, May 14, 2006)

Henry "Zebo" Zottola, the most active Pittsburgh mob member by 1990 and liason between the Pittsburgh and Youngstown factions. Zebo oversaw all Youngstown operations and reported directly to Mike Genovese. He was major income producer and was part of the group in the attempted bribery and and takeover of the Ricon Indian Casino in San Diego, CA. Henry died of Cancer in 1998. _jcb

More About Henry Albert "Zebo" Zottola:
Burial: Plum Creek Cemetery, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Notes for Rosalie Marie Calcagno:
MARRIAGE TOLD
A reception at the Bachelors Club followed the marriage of Rosalie Calcagno, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Calcagno of Carver St., to Henry Albert Zottole, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Zottole of Stanton Ave. The ceremony took place on May 26 in Our Lady Help of Christians Church. Mr. and Mrs. Calcagno left later for a wedding trip to Miami, Fla.

Children of Henry Zottola and Sheila Cataldo are:
4 i. Tia M.4 Zottola, born January 21, 1968. She married (Husband) Knauss.
5 ii. Danielle Zottola, born Abt. 1977. She married Matt Walton.

John "Jack" Verilla

Descendants of Lucia Izzo


Generation No. 1

1. Lucia2 Izzo (Francesco1) was born December 1866 in Italy, and died September 04, 1930 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.. She married Giovanni Verilla/Verilla/Verullo Abt. 1889. He was born Abt. 1863 in Italy, and died 1919 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa..

More About Lucia Izzo:
Burial: St. John's Cemetery, Altoona, Blair Co., pa.

Notes for Giovanni Verilla/Verilla/Verullo:
Arrived in US around 1888.

In 1900, at 1021 Ninth Ave., Altoona, laborer for railroad.
In 1910, at 813 Fifth Ave., Altoona, a baker.

Children of Lucia Izzo and Giovanni Verilla/Verilla/Verullo are:
+ 2 i. Patsy3 Verillo, born October 12, 1891 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.; died November 20, 1941 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa..
3 ii. Rocco Verillo, born January 08, 1894 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.; died November 07, 1932 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.. He married Bess (Verillo).

More About Rocco Verillo:
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.

+ 4 iii. Josephine Verilla, born October 06, 1895 in Pennsylvania; died October 03, 1945 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa..
+ 5 iv. Anthony J. Verilla, born June 12, 1897 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.; died 1947.
6 v. Minnie Verilla, born October 1899.
7 vi. Francis Samuel Verillo, born April 12, 1904 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.; died September 23, 1965 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.. He married Patricia M. Benedict.

More About Francis Samuel Verillo:
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.


Generation No. 2

2. Patsy3 Verillo (Lucia2 Izzo, Francesco1) was born October 12, 1891 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa., and died November 20, 1941 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.. He married Minnie (Verillo). She was born Abt. 1900 in Pennsylvania, and died Aft. 1930.

More About Patsy Verillo:
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.

Children of Patsy Verillo and Minnie (Verillo) are:
8 i. Lucy4 Verillo, born Abt. 1917.
9 ii. John Verillo, born Abt. 1919.


4. Josephine3 Verilla (Lucia2 Izzo, Francesco1) was born October 06, 1895 in Pennsylvania, and died October 03, 1945 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.. She married Anthony Joseph Faretti. He was born Abt. 1893 in Italy.

Children of Josephine Verilla and Anthony Faretti are:
10 i. Henry4 Faretty, born March 12, 1917; died June 16, 1985 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa..
11 ii. Julia Faretty, born May 13, 1925 in Pennsylvania; died December 1995 in Johnstown, Cambria Co., Pa.. She married Francis Romani; died 1992.
12 iii. Ralph Faretty, born Abt. 1918.


5. Anthony J.3 Verilla (Lucia2 Izzo, Francesco1) was born June 12, 1897 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa., and died 1947. He married Aurelia M. Corso. She was born 1903, and died 1977.

Notes for Anthony J. Verilla:
In 1917, at 822 8th Ave., Altoona, working for the Penna Railroad Co.

LOCAL LIQUOR RING LEADER CAUGHT, Altoona Tribune, December 31, 1937
Almost two years of searching by city and federal authorities was climaxed last night with the arrest of Anthony Verilla, 40, of 209 Seventh Avenue. Verilla, the alleged head of a liquor ring which was broken up with the arrest of four men and a woman during July 1936, was sought on a federal warrant charging violations of the internal revenue laws.
Taken into custody at 9:40 o'clock at his home by Sergeant L. W. Haberstroh, Officers Gorsuch and Rice and Constable Clair Young. Verilla sought to elude his captors by hiding in a cubby hole on the third floor of his residence after his attempt to escape through a window had been thwarted.
The confiscation almost two years ago of 95 gallons of alcohol which was being transferred from a disabled automobile on an East Side street to another machine brought the extensive operations of the ring to light. Liquor enforcement officers and two constables raided the Kettle Road hideout of the gang the day after the alcohol had been confiscated and arrested the four men and the woman. Indicted for violating the internal revenue law, the five were arraigned in the federal court, Pittsburgh, found guilty and sentenced. Verilla, however, managed to evade capture.
Since his escape, Verilla, according to his statements, has been roaming at large over the country, returning to thi city on one or two occasions. His arrest last night was the result of consistent checking by authorities on his infrequent movements here.
The huge still operated in Sinking Valley, according to police, was the best equipped ever found in this vicinity. No curtailment in the operations was permitted, the still being worked on a 24-hour basis, it was learned.

DISTILLER FINED, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 27, 1938
Anthony Verilla, a fugitive from alcohol tax agents for about 18 months, yesterday was fined $600 and jailed for six months by Judge Nelson McVicar in United States district court following a plea of guilty to operating an illegal distillery andalso transporting 95 gallons of alcohol on which the tax had not been paid.



More About Anthony J. Verilla:
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.

Children of Anthony Verilla and Aurelia Corso are:
+ 13 i. John Michael "Jack"4 Verilla, born March 17, 1925; died September 10, 1988 in SCI Huntingdon.
+ 14 ii. Anthony Joseph Verilla, born October 09, 1931 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.; died April 12, 1985 in Clearwater, Florida.


Generation No. 3

13. John Michael "Jack"4 Verilla (Anthony J.3, Lucia2 Izzo, Francesco1) was born March 17, 1925, and died September 10, 1988 in SCI Huntingdon. He married Angeline C. Pellegrino December 21, 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland, daughter of Francesco Pellegrino and Elisabetto Parzanese. She was born September 02, 1930 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa., and died November 12, 2006 in Blair Co., Pa..

Notes for John Michael "Jack" Verilla:
By 1957, Jack Verilla and John Caramadre were partners in the operation of the Sixth Avnue Grille, 602 21st St., Altoona.

RIF#: 124-10287-10396 (08/31/67) FBI#: 92-6054-2091
John Louis Caramadre remains active in the Altoona, Pa., area. The only legitimate business that can be located for him is a partnership with Jack Verilla in the Wind Lingerie Shop at Tyrone, Pa.

RIF#: 124-10297-10123 (08/21/68) FBI#: 92-6054-2389, pg. 16

124-10222-10196, 3/15/72:
On October 16 1972, PG T-2 advised: A few years ago, Sonny Verilla, Altoona, Pa., and Fred Corbo, Altoona gambler, had a fist fight. Subsequently, a meeting was held at the colony Steak House, Altoona, with Paul Hankish, Pete Wolfberg, Dave Williams, Fred Corbo and Sonny Verilla present. It was pointed out that prior to the fight, Verilla had been warned by Kelly Mannarino of New Kensington, not to interfere with Corbo's gambling operations. Verilla was instructed once again to stop such interference, and it was implied that Verilla had been fingering Corbo's operations for police raids.

Conviction of John Verilla, John Caramadre and Vincent Caracciolo (1984), PCC 90
Verilla, Caramadre, and Caracciolo were convicted in the mid 1980s of homicide-related charges. Since 1976, these individuals constituted an organization in the Altoona area identified as "The Family" with Verilla the boss, Caramadre the counselor, and Caracciolo the enforcer. Nine other men were associated with "The Family" including a doctor. The group was involved in extortion, narcotics trafficking, illegal gambling, arson, fencing and loansharking.
The trial and subsequent informant testimony from members of the Verilla organization provide some of the earliest insider information on the Family's workings. Verilla and associates were illegally obtaining drugs from Dr. John Maras by use of bogus prescriptions and by a staged robbery of Maras' office. One associate, John Henry Clark, had a falling out with Verilla and intended to inform the police of the activities. Verilla and Caramadre ordered Caracciolo to kill Clark; and on January 23, 1979, Caracciolo and four others murdered Clark with an axe. Verilla, Caramadre, and Caracciolo were sentenced to life in prison for the homicide. Verilla died in prison in September 1988.
Verilla reported to the New Kensington faction of the Family which was headed by Gabriel Mannarino and later by Thomas Ciancutti.

· John "Jack" Verilla. Verilla, a Pittsburgh LCN member, and associates John Caramadre and Vincent Caracciolo, all of Altoona, were convicted in the mid-1980s of homicide-related charges. Verilla operated an illegal syndicate under Gabriel Mannarino. Mannarino received ten percent of the proceeds until his death, at which time the tribute was paid to Thomas Ciancutti.
Verilla's group conducted illegal lotteries at 12 locations in Blair County. When Joseph McDermott of Pittsburgh attempted to establish a competing operation, Caracciolo and three associates kidnapped McDermott and amputated his fingers as a warning not to put them into the Family's business.
During the late 1970s, the Verilla organization attempted to take over a large-scale football parlay operation in Altoona controlled by Paul Folcarelli, also known as Paul Farrell. Folcarelli appealed this to Mannarino, who allowed Folcarelli's operation to continue. Verilla, Caramadre, and Caracciolo were sentenced to life in prison in 1984. Verilla died in prison in 1988. (PCC 90)

John Verilla, made member of the LaRocca Family and oversaw all illegal gambling in the Altoona/Johnstown, PA area after Joe Regino retired to Florida in the late 1970's-early 1980's. Verilla had his own crew and they wreaked havoc in Altoona to put it mildly. Verilla was convicted for the murder of a drug dealer and died in prison. _jcb


More About John Michael "Jack" Verilla:
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.

Notes for Angeline C. Pellegrino:
Angeline C. Verilla
Sept. 2, 1930 - Nov. 12, 2006

Angeline C. Verilla, 76, 2701 Fairway Drive, Apt. 1A, Altoona, died Sunday at Altoona Regional Health System, Bon Secours Hospital Campus. She was born in Altoona, daughter of the late Francesco and Elisabetto (Parzanese) Pellegrino. She married John M. Verilla Sr. Dec. 21, 1952, in Baltimore. He died in September 1988. Mrs. Verilla was a member of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church.
Surviving are a son, John M. Jr. of Altoona; a daughter, Dolletta M. Bason of Altoona; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two brothers: Frank of Altoona and John of Worthington, Minn.; and a sister, Lena Pellegrino of Altoona. She was preceded in death by a sister, Ann Belin; and brother, Anthony. Private family visitation was held at The Stevens Mortuary Inc., 1421 Eighth Ave., Altoona (www.stevensmortuary.com). Funeral services were held at Stevens Memorial Chapel by Father James Crookston. Committal was at Calvary Cemetery. The family requests contributions be made to the family at 2701 Fairway Drive, Apt. 1A, Altoona, PA 16602.



More About Angeline C. Pellegrino:
Burial: Calvary Cemetery, Altoona, Blair Co., Pa.

Children of John Verilla and Angeline Pellegrino are:
15 i. Dolletta M.5 Verilla, born May 15, 1954. She married (Husband) Basom June 12, 1982 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa..
+ 16 ii. John M. Verilla, born April 09, 1957.


14. Anthony Joseph4 Verilla (Anthony J.3, Lucia2 Izzo, Francesco1) was born October 09, 1931 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa., and died April 12, 1985 in Clearwater, Florida. He married Rosemary Casey May 09, 1964, daughter of William Casey and Frances (Casey). She was born September 23, 1941 in Albion, Pa., and died February 05, 2014.

Notes for Anthony Joseph Verilla:
In the 1960s opened a brothel in Altoona, according to the testimony of a prostitute who helped him.

In 1971, arrested for armed robbery.

Owned a pizza shop in the 1960s.

Moved to Pinellas Co., Florida in 1970.

Started New Enterprise Concrete and Excavating.

Children of Anthony Verilla and Rosemary Casey are:
17 i. Joseph William5 Verilla. He married (1) Judy Melissa Zipin May 28, 1988 in Florida. He married (2) Susan Elisabeth Runge 1994 in Pinellas Park, Florida.
18 ii. Rene Verilla. She married Ravee Patel.
19 iii. Dana Verilla. She married Dino Hatem.


Generation No. 4

16. John M.5 Verilla (John Michael "Jack"4, Anthony J.3, Lucia2 Izzo, Francesco1) was born April 09, 1957. He married Paula Edmiston.

Notes for John M. Verilla:
Kelly Mannarino may have been his godfather.

Child of John Verilla and Paula Edmiston is:
20 i. John M.6 Verilla, born March 18, 1975.

Louis Raucci

Descendants of Louis Raucci


Generation No. 1

1. Louis2 Raucci (John1) was born Abt. 1871 in Italy, and died August 01, 1935 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married Angelina Garfaro. She was born September 10, 1876 in Italy, and died March 25, 1955 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..

Notes for Louis Raucci:
PORCH SLAYER AGAIN ARRESTED, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 31, 1935
Lupero Valotta, 63, of 608 Omega street, freed by a coroner's jury on August 14 in the fatal shooting two weeks earlier of Louis Raucci, 64, of 9 Orphan street, was arrested again yesterday on a murder charge made against him by Raucci's son, John Raucci. Valotta and Raucci quarreled on August 1 over a chair both wanted to occupy on a porch at the Orphan street address, where both lived. Raucci is said to have drawn a knife and Valotta a gun. Raucci was fatally shot. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide in self defense, but Raucci's family was not satisfied, so yesterday John Raucci made informations before Alderman Andrew Maloney charging Valotta with murder, pointing firearms and carrying concealed weapons. No date was set for a hearing.


More About Louis Raucci:
Burial: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Penn Hills, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Notes for Angelina Garfaro:
Arrived in US July 2, 1914, aboard the SS Verona.

More About Angelina Garfaro:
Burial: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Penn Hills, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Children of Louis Raucci and Angelina Garfaro are:
+ 2 i. John3 Raucci, born July 27, 1903 in Italy; died January 1973.
+ 3 ii. Frank J. Raucci, born March 23, 1916 in Pennsylvania; died November 09, 2003.
+ 4 iii. Jennie Raucci, born July 05, 1896 in Italy; died March 30, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..


Generation No. 2

2. John3 Raucci (Louis2, John1) was born July 27, 1903 in Italy, and died January 1973. He married (1) Antonietta Balena. She was born January 08, 1917 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa., and died Abt. 1998 in ?Penn Hills, Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married (2) Rose Brandi Abt. 1928. She was born Abt. 1913 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa., and died Aft. 1948.

Notes for John Raucci:
1930 CENSUS PA Allegheny Co. Pittsburgh Ward 12 ED 189 Family 78, 629 Lenora St.
John Raucci, 26, m at 24, IT arr 1916, baker at bakery
Rose M., 17, m at 15

1940 CENSUS PA Allegheny Co. Pittsburgh Ward 12 ED 69-305 Family 174, 208 Omega St.
John Raucci, 36, IT, relief baker
Annette, 23; Angelina, 5; Frederick, 2; Angelina, mother, 63, IT; Frank, brother, 24; Tony Vento, 53, lodger

Children of John Raucci and Antonietta Balena are:
+ 5 i. Angeline4 Raucci, born Abt. 1935; died July 04, 2013.
6 ii. Frederick Raucci, born Abt. 1938.
7 iii. John Raucci.
8 iv. Palma Raucci, born January 25, 1940. She married (Husband) Ferguson.
9 v. Jean Raucci. She married (Husband) Bowser.


Child of John Raucci and Rose Brandi is:
+ 10 i. Louis Frank4 Raucci, born June 23, 1930 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.; died April 01, 1995 in Bradford Regional Medical Center, McKean Co., Pa..


3. Frank J.3 Raucci (Louis2, John1) was born March 23, 1916 in Pennsylvania, and died November 09, 2003. He married Lucy Fabbozzi.

Notes for Frank J. Raucci:
RAUCCI
FRANK J. SR.
On Sunday, November 9, 2003, beloved husband of Lucy Fabbozzi Raucci; father of Frank G. Raucci, Jr., Rita Granata (Don) and Donna Lunn; brother of the late John Raucci and Genevieve Russo; grandfather of Todd and Geoffrey Lunn and Daryen Granata; great-grandfather of Caroline Granata. Friends will be received at JOHN A. FREYVOGEL SONS, INC. 4900 Centre Ave. At Devonshire Street, Tuesday 7-9 p.m. and Wednesday 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. Funeral Thursday, Mass of Christian Burial Sacred Heart Church 10:30 a.m.


Children of Frank Raucci and Lucy Fabbozzi are:
11 i. Frank G.4 Raucci.
12 ii. Rita Raucci.
13 iii. Donna Raucci.


4. Jennie3 Raucci (Louis2, John1) was born July 05, 1896 in Italy, and died March 30, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.. She married (1) Alfred Russo. He died Aft. 1930. She married (2) Dominic Didiano, son of Giuseppe Didiano. He was born May 08, 1885 in Italy, and died February 22, 1947 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa..

More About Jennie Raucci:
Burial: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Penn Hills, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Notes for Dominic Didiano:
402 Larimer Ave.

More About Dominic Didiano:
Burial: Mount Carmel Cemetery, Penn Hills, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Child of Jennie Raucci and Alfred Russo is:
14 i. Carmen4 Russo.


Generation No. 3

5. Angeline4 Raucci (John3, Louis2, John1) was born Abt. 1935, and died July 04, 2013. She married Joseph C. Thompson. He died Bef. July 2013.

Notes for Angeline Raucci:
THOMPSON
ANGELINE P. (RAUCCI) "ANGIE"
Age 77, of Sharpsburg, on Thursday, July 4, 2013. Preceded in death by parents, John and Antoinette (Balino) Russo-Raucci; husband, Joseph C. Thompson; survived by daughters, Ruth Ann Monroe and Joanna Thompson; siblings, Fred, John Raucci, Palma Ferguson, and Jeanne Bowser; grandmother of Paul Hudyma, Joe Hudyma, Crystal Monroe, and Steven Jarzynka; also survived by nine great-grandchildren; fiance of Guy DiMaggio. Visitation Monday and Tuesday 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the FINDLAY C. WYLIE FUNERAL HOME, INC., 11311 Frankstown Rd., Penn Hills. Funeral Mass Wednesday 10 a.m., St. Susanna Church, Penn Hills.


Child of Angeline Raucci and Joseph Thompson is:
15 i. Ruth Ann5 Thompson. She married (Husband) Monroe.


10. Louis Frank4 Raucci (John3, Louis2, John1) was born June 23, 1930 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa., and died April 01, 1995 in Bradford Regional Medical Center, McKean Co., Pa.. He married (1) Jean A. Conner. She was born August 31, 1953. He married (2) Katherine Rose Persichetti August 06, 1949 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa., daughter of Nazareth Persichetti and Theresa Ruscella. She was born September 08, 1930. He married (3) Elaine Glick Bef. 1973, daughter of Charles Glick and Augusta (Glick). She was born Abt. 1938.

Notes for Louis Frank Raucci:
In 1940, at 613 Larimer Ave., step-son of James Maggio. Same house as Dominick Costa, tailor.

BULLETS AND TEAR GAS DRIVE THUGS OUT OF CLUB, The Pittsburgh Press, December 30, 1952
Greensburg, Pa., Dec. 30 - A movie-style battle, complete with gunfire, tear gas and floodlights, ended yesterday with the arrest of two Pittsburgh men on safecracking charges. They were identified as Danny Orfitelli, of Swissvale, and Louis Raucci, of East Liberty.
They recently were released from the Western Penitentiary where they were serving terms for burglary and holdup. While in prison, Orfitelli had accused Frederick Burdell, then a North Braddock constable, of taking bribes for police protection. Burdell was cleared of this charge when Orfitelli retracted his statement. The former North Braddock police officer was convicted last week, however, of taking part in the $105,000 robbery of Butler mine operator Craig Saul last March 15. Orfitelli and Raucci will be questioned to determine if they were involved in the Butler robbery. In addition to Burdell, five other men, still unidentified, took part in the theft.

Involved with Sam Tedesco as owners of a store that was bombed in 1958.
Arrested October, 1961, in connection with the $40,000 holdup of a bank messenger July 16, 1919, at Niles, Ohio, north of Youngstown.

Successor of Joseph Sica. Operated in Penn Hills suburbs.

Indicted in 1973 on baby-selling charged with Elaine Chesterpal Raucci and Frank Joseph Rosa.

Raucci Sr. is said to sit on the left side of Genovese. See GEB Ex. 92 (1990 PA Crime Report at 118). Raucci Sr. frequently worked in concert with Porter furthering the affairs of the Pittsburgh LCN. See id. In 1990, Raucci Sr. was convicted with Porter on racketeering, narcotics, and tax violations. See GEB Ex. 93 (1991 PA Crime Report). Raucci was sentenced to 27 years incarceration.

LOUIS F. RAUCCI SR., ONCE CALLED FIGURE IN ORGANIZED CRIME, by Mike Bucsko, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA), April 4, 1995
Louis Frank Raucci Sr., once described by federal prosecutors as an underboss of the Western Pennsylvania La Cosa Nostra, died Saturday at Bradford Regional Medical Center after he was found unconscious in his cell at the federal prison in McKean County. He was 64. The cause of Mr. Raucci's death has not been determined, pending results of toxicology tests taken during an autopsy performed by the Erie County coroner's office, McKean County Coroner Francis Cahill said.
Mr. Raucci, formerly of Verona, was serving a 27-year sentence when he died. U.S. District Judge Donald E. Ziegler, now chief judge, imposed the sentence on Mr. Raucci in January 1991, about three months after he was convicted of racketeering, distribution of cocaine and money laundering charges. Prosecutors claimed Mr. Raucci hid his income from illegal activities by accepting paychecks as a ghost employee of Daily Juice Co. in Verona. Mr. Raucci also was an investor and employee of Rocca's Italian Foods in New Castle, according to the Pennsylvania Crime Commission.
Members of Mr. Raucci's family declined comment on his death when reached yesterday at the Penn Hills funeral home where services are being conducted.
Prosecutors and FBI agents who pursued Mr. Raucci in a decade-long investigation that culiminated in his successful prosecution also declined to comment. Mr. Raucci and Charles J. Porter Sr., 60, formerly of Wilkins, were among nine men convicted in October 1990 in the largest of a series of prosecutions of mob operatives and associates that began in the early 1980s. Prosecutors characterized Mr. Raucci and Porter as the "right and left hands" of reputed La Cosa Nostra boss Michael Genovese, 75, of West Deer. Porter is serving a 28-year term at the federal prison in McKean County.
Mr. Raucci is survived by his wife, Jean; a son, Rocky; and a daughter, LuAnn. A blessing service is scheduled today at 10:15 a.m. today at William F. Gross Funeral Home, 11735 Frankstown Road, Penn Hills.

Trib, April 3, 1995
Louis F. Raucci Sr., 64, of Penn Hills, died Saturday, April 1, 1995. He is survived by his wife, Jean (Conner) Raucci; and two children. Friends will be received Monday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the William F. Gross Funeral Home Ltd., 11735 Frankstown Road, Penn Hills, where a blessing service will be held Tuesday at 10:15 a.m. Interment in Allegheny Cemetery.

LOUIS RAUCCI, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, April 6, 1995
Louis Raucci, 64, a convicted racketeer and, according to prosecutors, a top organized-crime leader in Pennsylvania, died Saturday in Bradford, Pa. while serving a 27-year prison sentence. Raucci was found unconscious in his cell at the Federal Correctional Institution at McKean and died at a local hospital. A ruling on the cause of death was pending. Raucci was convicted in 1990 of federal racketeering, cocaine distribution and money laundering charges. During his trial, prosecutors said he and Charles Porter were the "right and left hands" of reputed mob boss Michael Genovese. Porter is serving a 28-year sentence. Prosecutors said Raucci hid illegal income by accepting paychecks as a ghost employee of Daily Juice Co. in Verona, Pa. The Pennsylvania Crime Commission said he was an investor and employee at Rocca's Italian Foods in New Castle, Pa.



More About Louis Frank Raucci:
Burial: Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Notes for Elaine Glick:
Involved in a baby-selling scheme around 1973, along with Frank Rosa and Louis Raucci. Resided at 5138 Rosecrest Place.

Children of Louis Raucci and Katherine Persichetti are:
+ 16 i. Lorraine5 Raucci, born August 28, 1950.
17 ii. Louis F. "Rocky" Raucci, born May 14, 1954; died November 17, 1985 in Pine Twp., Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married Sondra S. Heldman March 29, 1975 in Westmoreland Co., Pa..

Notes for Louis F. "Rocky" Raucci:
LaRocca Jr. is the son of Pittsburgh LCN boss, LaRocca Sr. Neither the FBI nor the PA Crime Commission have ever listed LaRocca Jr. as having any role in the Pittsburgh LCN. While serving as a Local 1058 business agent, LaRocca Jr. was involved in a video arcade business with Raucci Jr. and Zottola. Tr. 710, 1346-1350. LaRocca Jr. began the business at his father’s behest, which closed within eight months of opening. Tr. 1346-1350.

PINE WOMAN CHARGED IN SHOOTING DEATH, News Record, North Hills, Pa., November 19, 1985 (Tuesday)
Pine - Louis F. Raucci, 31, of 316 Logan Road, was shot and killed at his Pine home Sunday afternoon. His live-in girlfriend, Dawn R. Pratillo, 20, has been charged with criminal homicide. A .38 caliber revolver was recovered at the site. Tri-Area police said the shooting occurred at 2:45 p.m. "One shot was fired," said Chief Richard Baer. He was taken to Allegheny General Hospital by Life Flight where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Allegheny County police and Tri-Area police are investigating. Pratillo will have a hearing at the coroner's office Tuesday, Nov. 26, at 10 a.m.

At the time of his death, Raucci was under investigation by Allegheny County police for alleged cocaine sales.

RAUCCI, on Sunday, November 17, 1985, Louis F. Jr., beloved son of Katherine Cerniglia and Louis F. Raucci Sr.; brother of Lorraine Amendola, grandson of Nazareth and Theresa Persichetti. Friends received at the William F. Gross Funeral Home, 11735 Frankstown Rd. (at Rodi Rd.), Penn Hills. Funeral Thursday at 9:15 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial St. Raphael Church, Morningside at 10 a.m. Visitation 2-4 & 7-9.

More About Louis F. "Rocky" Raucci:
Burial: Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa.


Child of Louis Raucci and Elaine Glick is:
18 i. LuAnn5 Raucci, born October 01, 1975. She married (Husband) O'Connor.


Generation No. 4

16. Lorraine5 Raucci (Louis Frank4, John3, Louis2, John1) was born August 28, 1950. She married Anthony J. Amendola, son of Nicholas Amendola and Helen D'Aquila. He was born November 15, 1949.

Children of Lorraine Raucci and Anthony Amendola are:
19 i. Louis Anthony6 Amendola, born Abt. 1988.

Notes for Louis Anthony Amendola:
'PENN HILLS FAMILY' MEMBERS SENTENED
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, by Bobby Kerlik
January 4, 2012

Three Penn Hills men pleaded guilty Tuesday to a string of burglaries in which police said they tried to mimic organized crime and called themselves the "Penn Hills Family." Louis Amendola, 24, Philip Vecchio, 22, and Shane Kesneck, 23, pleaded guilty to planning and participating in the burglaries and were sentenced as part of a plea deal, prosecutors said. Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Jill E. Rangos sentenced Amendola and Vecchio each to 16 to 42 months in prison followed by 10 years probation. Kesneck was sentenced to 13 to 26 months in prison followed by 10 years probation. Rangos ordered all three to pay restitution.
Vecchio's attorney, Phil DiLicente, said prosecutors withdrew robbery and some theft charges. Attorneys for the other two men could not be reached for comment. "My client stated that he just wanted to pay his debt to society," DiLucente said. "He was looking at 26 misdemeanor and felony charges, so he was pleased with the outcome."
State police said the men were part of a criminal organization - patterned after the Italian Mafia - that carried out burglaries and other crimes in Pittsburgh and its eastern suburbs between June 3, 2008 and February 22, 2009. Amendola served as the organization's "self-appointed boss," and often called the group "La Cosa Nostra," or "Our Thing" - the name used to refer to the traditional Italian Mafia, police said.
Rangos previously threw out a corrupt organizations charge against the three and DiLucente downplayed the Mafia comparison. "These were just a couple of young men who pled guilty to certain acts," DiLucente said.
Three other men still have pending cases involving the group.

Louis Amendola was related to Raucci, now though, he served 2months in jail before turning several fellow drug dealers into the police through his lawyer, in return he got to go to "boot camp" and now lives in a halfway house in Braddock. [posted 1/11/13, gangsterbb.net]

20 ii. Anthony J. Amendola.
21 iii. Nicole Amendola. She married (Husband) Rubbe.

Giuseppe Rosa- Father of Frank Rosa & grandfather of Joey Rosa (Frank Rosa married Joe Sica's daughter and had Joey)

Descendants of Antonio Sica


Generation No. 1

1. Antonio1 Sica

Child of Antonio Sica is:
+ 2 i. Luigi2 Sica, born May 30, 1882 in Castiligione, Salerno, Campania, Italy; died February 06, 1941 in Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., Pa..


Generation No. 2

2. Luigi2 Sica (Antonio1) was born May 30, 1882 in Castiligione, Salerno, Campania, Italy, and died February 06, 1941 in Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., Pa.. He married (1) Maria Christina Cerro, daughter of Pasquale Cerro and Concetta (Cerro). She was born November 10, 1884 in Castiligione, Salerno, Campania, Italy, and died January 23, 1913 in Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., Pa.. He married (2) Gussie (Sica). She was born Abt. 1890, and died Aft. 1940. He married (3) Marie Vincenza Rose January 05, 1918 in Westmoreland Co., Pa.. She died Bet. 1918 - 1921. He married (4) Carolina DiGirolamo April 07, 1921 in Westmoreland Co., Pa., daughter of Lorenzo DiGirolamo and Mary Iacovetti. She was born July 04, 1876 in Italy, and died April 01, 1926 in Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., Pa..

Notes for Luigi Sica:
On one wife's death certificate, name is Sager. On another, it is Sagi.

WWI Draft Registration Card
Louis Sica, 129 North 3rd St., Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., Pa.
Age 36, born May 30, 1882 in Italy
Chipper for Elliott Company, North 4th St., Jeannette, Pa.
Mrs. Marie Rose Sica, same address

1930 CENSUS PA Westmoreland Co. Jeannette Ward 5 ED 69 Family 675, 706 Division St.
Luigi Sica, 48, widower, IT arr 1906, olive oil merchant
Benedetta, 23, IT arr 1907; Angelo, 20, IT

In 1929, all the children of Florino Scalzitti, most by guardian, and Luigi Sica sold property in Latrobe to West Penn Rys Co.

More About Luigi Sica:
Burial: Sacred Heart Cemetery, Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., Pa.

More About Maria Christina Cerro:
Burial: Sacret Heart Cemetery, Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., Pa.

Notes for Carolina DiGirolamo:
1920 CENSUS PA Westmoreland Co. S. Huntingdon Twp. Yukon ED 214 Family 240
Carolina Scalzitti, 29, widow, IT IT IT, arr 1900 nat 1916, coal mining
Nicholas, 19; David, 17; Noble G., 15; Dandy, 12; ?Weedy, 9; Lawrence, 7; Alford, 6; Edward, 5; Arthur, 2; ?Alonaro, 1; Armando,
bil, 24, IT IT IT, arr 1913, coal miner



More About Carolina DiGirolamo:
Burial: Immaculate Conception Cemetery, Irwin, Westmoreland Co., Pa.

Children of Luigi Sica and Maria Cerro are:
+ 3 i. Benedetta "Betty"3 Sica, born August 11, 1906 in Castiligione, Salerno, Italy; died June 08, 2005 in Westmoreland Manor, Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., Pa..
+ 4 ii. Joseph Sica, born May 10, 1908 in Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., Pa.; died July 20, 1991 in ?Penn Hills, Allegheny Co., Pa..
+ 5 iii. Angelo Sica, born November 14, 1909 in Italy; died March 1978 in ?McKeesport, Allegheny Co., Pa..


Generation No. 3

3. Benedetta "Betty"3 Sica (Luigi2, Antonio1) was born August 11, 1906 in Castiligione, Salerno, Italy, and died June 08, 2005 in Westmoreland Manor, Greensburg, Westmoreland Co., Pa.. She married Thomas E. DeCaro September 14, 1938 in Westmoreland Co., Pa.. He was born 1909, and died 1970.

Notes for Benedetta "Betty" Sica:
Benedetta "Betty" DeCaro, 98, of Jeannette, died Wednesday, June 8, 2005, in Westmoreland Manor, Greensburg. She was born Aug. 11, 1906, in Castiligione Salerno, Italy, the daughter of the late Luigi and Christina Cerri Sica. Betty was a member of Ascension Church, Jeannette, and its Rosary Altar Society, the Amore E. Speranza #57 and the Assumption Society. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Thomas DeCaro, in 1970; and two brothers, Joseph and Angelo Sica. She is survived by two sons, Michael "Tom" DeCaro and wife, Rosemary, and Joseph DeCaro and wife, Barbara, all of Jeannette; five grandchildren, Michael DeCaro and wife, Gina, Denise Bonafati and husband, Tony, Tom DeCaro, Joseph DeCaro and wife, Erin, and Stephanie Devitt and husband, Richard; six great-grandchildren; a special sister-in-law, Esterina Sica; her favorite niece, Josephine Rosa; a sister-in-law, Elvira DeCaro; and numerous nieces and nephews. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the JOHN V. GRAZIANO FUNERAL HOME INC., 228 N. Second St., Jeannette. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Ascension Church with Father John M. Foriska as celebrant. Interment will follow in the Youngwood Cemetery, Youngwood Borough. The Ascension Rosary Altar Society, the Amore E. Speranza #57 and the Assumption Society combined will pray the rosary at 3:30 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.


More About Benedetta "Betty" Sica:
Burial: Youngwood Cemetery, Youngwood, Westmoreland Co., Pa.

More About Thomas E. DeCaro:
Burial: Youngwood Cemetery, Youngwood, Westmoreland Co., Pa.

Children of Benedetta Sica and Thomas DeCaro are:
6 i. Michael "Tom"4 DeCaro.
7 ii. Joseph DeCaro.


4. Joseph3 Sica (Luigi2, Antonio1) was born May 10, 1908 in Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., Pa., and died July 20, 1991 in ?Penn Hills, Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married Esterina I. Cerrati, daughter of Raffaele Cerrati and Maria Picillo. She was born September 17, 1914 in Providence, Rhode Island, and died October 02, 2006 in Murrysville, Westmoreland Co., Pa..

Notes for Joseph Sica:
A Giuseppe Sica, age 17, traveled to Italy in 1925, returning June 30 from the port of Naples. He was born in Jeannette, Pa., where he made his home with his father, Luigi.

Both Joseph and his wife and sister-in-law were in the wedding party of Amelia Masi and Andrew Fandozzi.

1938, numbers bust in Oakland.

In 1940, living in North Versailles on Lincoln Highway with his in-laws. Both he and his father-in-law were salesmen for a retail grocery.

Joseph Sica operated in the Penn Hills suburbs. He was succeeded by Louis Raucci, Sr.

1956, Valley Beer Distributors. Good friend of John Bertera of the Holiday House.

1956, "Josephine Sica, daughter of Wilmerding's Joseph Sica, head of the Valley Beer Distributors and active in show business circles, will be showered tomorrow evening in Taylor's Restaurant, East McKeesport. Miss Sica will soon becme the bride of East Liberty's Joe Rosa Jr."

1960, "The Rainbow Garden family - the Joseph Sicas, the Joseph Volpes, and the Louis Volpes - will host the weekly Family Night at the Variety Club on Friday."

Sica was a business partner of Louis and Joseph Volpe in several vending firms. (JFK FBI)

Joseph Sica (Sica) was convicted of violation of the Hobbs Act in 1975. Sica, with a few exceptions, has been inactive in the Pittsburgh LCN since the mid-1980s. See GEB Ex. 92 (1990 PA Crime Report). Sica had been involved in gambling activities. GEB Ex. 93 (1991 PA Crime Report). Sica is the father-in-law of deceased LCN capo, Frank Rosa. See GEB Ex. 92 (1990 PA Crime Report). Sica died in 1991. See GEB Ex. 93 (1991 PA Crime Report).

Joseph "Joe" Sica, longtime Capo in the LaRocca Crime Family. First cousin to Alphonse D'Arco of the Lucchese Family and father in law to Frank Rosa, another Capo in the family who died of cancer in 1982. He was also the grandfather of Joey Rosa, infamous rat who testified against Porter, Raucci & Chiarelli in the 1990 racketeering trial in Pittsburgh. He ran gambling, prostitution and loansharking. _jcb

JOSEPH SICA
Joseph Sica, a onetime top member of the local LaRocca/Genovese crime family, is dead. Sica, 83, died Saturday [ July 20, 1991], but the Jennifer S. Jordan Funeral Home in White Oak, which is handling funeral arrangements, said Sica's family declined to give the cause of death or say where Sica died. Sica, who lived in Penn Hills, served as "consigliere," or counselor, for La Cosa Nostra, according to the Pennsylvania Crime Commission. He reportedly had been inactive in crime family activities for the past decade. In 1975, he and his son-in-law, the late Frank J. Rosa, were convicted in U.S. District Court of trying to extort $10,000 from a landscape contractor in connection with a Monroeville park-improvement project. Also convicted was Vincent F. Mannella, a consulting engineer and Democratic Party fund-raiser.
Sica served 11 months of a five-year prison term after exhausting his appeals in 1978. In 1969, he was acquitted of conspiring to obtain a loan through the Teamsters Pension Fund through kickbacks. Also acquitted were Rosa and the late John Sebastian LaRocca, the reputed Mafia chief until his death in 1984. Sica was the grandfather of convicted cocaine trafficker Joseph Rosa III, whose cooperation with federal authorities led to the indictment and racketeering convictions last fall of nine La Cosa Nostra members and associates. According to the funeral home, Sica is survived by his wife, Esterina Cerrati Sica; a daughter, Josephine Rosa; a sister, Betty DeCaro; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

JOSEPH SICA, DISTRICT LEADER OF CRIME FAMILY, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 23, 1991
Joseph Sica, a longtime leader in the LaRocca/Genovese crime family who the Pennsylvania Crime Commission said controlled mob activities in the Wilmerding and Turtle Creek areas, died Saturday. Mr. Sica, 83, of Penn Hills, was identified in the 1980 Crime Commission report as the consigliere, or legal counsel, for the LaRocca/Genovese family. At his family's request, the cause of death was not released.
In 1975, Mr. Sica was convicted of extortion along with his son-in-law, Frank J. Rosa and Vincent F. Manella, a prominent municipal engineer. Mr. Sica served 11 months of a five-year sentence in 1978. These convictions were the first ever secured here against high-ranking members of the LaRocca family, which controlled most organized crime activities in Western Pennsylvania, according to the Crime Commission report.
Mr. Sica and Rosa were prosecuted along with crime family boss John S. LaRocca in 1970 for conspiracy connected with kickbacks on a mortgage loan from a Teamsters union pension fund. Mr. Sica and LaRocca were acquitted by the jury and Rosa won a directed verdict of acquittal. [Herbert Itkin was an undercover agent for the FBI in this matter.]
Mr. Sica had been inactive in mob activities throughout the 1980s, according to the Crime Commission report, except for his attendance at a meeting in late September 1985 between members of the Bruno/Scarfo and LaRocca families at the former Marriott Hotel in Monroeville.
Mr. Sica, along with other mob figures, was linked in 1974 with Samuel M. Begler, Gov. Milton Shapp's patronage chief, as shareholders in the Underhill Motel in Irwin. Begler denied knowledge of Mr. Sica's involvement.
Mr. Sica was involved in a number of businesses in East Pittsburgh, Wilmerding, and Turtle Creek, including the Valley Beer Distributing Co., the Versailles Amusement Corp. which operated the former Rainbow Gardens Amusement Park in McKeesport, the Tri-Boro Vending Machine Co., Turtle Creek Valley Distributors and the J&L Cigarette Service.
Pittsburgh criminal lawyer John L. Doherty, who represented LaRocca, described Mr. Sica as "a good family man. Whatever else you might want to say, his family came first," Doherty said.
Mr. Sica was the grandfather of convicted drug dealer Joseph Rosa, who cooperated with federal authorities in the racketeering trial of Charles J. Porter, underboss of the LaRocca/Genovese family, and eight other defendants last fall. Rosa was released, relocated and given a new identity under the federal witness protection program.
Mr. Sica is survived by his wife, Esterina Cerrati Sica; a daughter, Josephine Rosa, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and a sister, Betty DeCaro. Arrangements are by Jennifer S. Jordan Funeral Home Inc., 1638 Lincoln Way, White Oak.


Notes for Esterina I. Cerrati:
Esterina Sica, 92, of Murrysville, died Monday, Oct. 2, 2006, in her home. She was born Sept. 17, 1914, in Providence, R.I., a daughter of the late Ralph and Josephine Picillo Cerrati. Esterina was a member of Mother of Sorrows Church, Murrysville. In addition to her parents, Esterina was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Sica. She is survived by her daughter, Josephine Rosa, of Murrysville, with whom she resided; her grandchildren, Esterina DiFrank and husband, Gary, Joseph Rosa, and Genevieve Weber; four great-grandchildren, Amber, Jason, Anthony and Mylinda; a sister, Maria Botti, of North Versailles; and numerous nieces and nephews. Friends and family will be received from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the JOHN M. DOBRINICK FUNERAL HOME INC., 602 Seventh St. (Route 130), Trafford, 412-372-3111. Parting prayers will be at 9:15 a.m. Thursday in the funeral home, followed by a funeral Mass to be celebrated at 10 a.m. in Mother of Sorrows Church, Murrysville. Entombment will follow in New St. Joseph Mausoleum, North Versailles. (Tribune-Review)


More About Esterina I. Cerrati:
Burial: St. Joseph Mausoleum, North Versailles, Allegheny Co., Pa.

Child of Joseph Sica and Esterina Cerrati is:
+ 8 i. Josephine4 Sica, born March 29, 1936.


5. Angelo3 Sica (Luigi2, Antonio1) was born November 14, 1909 in Italy, and died March 1978 in ?McKeesport, Allegheny Co., Pa.. He married Alba F. Carlonie July 16, 1932 in Westmoreland Co., Pa., daughter of Giuseppe Carle and Maria Cinaglia. She was born September 21, 1913 in Jeannette, Westmoreland Co., Pa., and died April 25, 1994 in McKeesport, Allegheny Co., Pa..

Notes for Alba F. Carlonie:
Alba F. Sica, 80, of South Versailles Township, died Monday, April 25, 1994, in McKeesport Hospital. She was born Sept. 21, 1913, in Jeannette, a daughter of the late Guiseppe and Maria Cinaglia Carle. She was a member of St. Patrick Parish, Amore E. Speranza No. 57 and Maria Santissima Dell'Assunta Society. She was the wife of the late Angelo Sica. Survivors include her daughter, M. Christina Johnson, with whom she resided; two sisters, Lillian Pliatino and Helen Sticca, both of Jeannette; four grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Friends will be received Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the JENNIFER S. JORDAN FUNERAL HOME INC., 1638 Lincoln Way, White Oak. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated Thursday at 10 a.m. in St. Denis Worship Site. Interment in Sacred Heart Cemetery, Jeannette.



Child of Angelo Sica and Alba Carlonie is:
9 i. M. Christina4 Sica.


Generation No. 4

8. Josephine4 Sica (Joseph3, Luigi2, Antonio1) was born March 29, 1936. She married Frank Joseph Rosa September 17, 1956 in St. Robert Bellarmine Church, son of Giuseppe Rosa and Genevieve Gessner. He was born February 21, 1930 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Pa., and died January 28, 1982.

Notes for Josephine Sica:
SICA-ROSA, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 2, 1956
A reception in the Holiday House followed the marriage of Josephine Sica and Frank J. Rosa on September 17 in St. Robert Bellarmine Church. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sica of East McKeesport, and her husband is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rosa of East Liberty.
Mrs. Anita Petrocelli was matron of honor. Bridesmaid were Lorraine Harrison, Lucille LaGorga, Beverly Harold, Catherine Presti, Doreen Trenga and junior bridesmaid was Gloria Ann Volpe. Frank Amato was the best man, and Daniel Ambrose, James Petrocelli, Peter Higgens, Arthur Volpe, and William Gail were ushers. Junior usher was Thomas DeCaro.



Notes for Frank Joseph Rosa:


In 1964, partner with Felix Genovese and John Fontana in the Bargain House, 1304 East Carson St., South Side.

In 1975, may appears to have been a partner in Tony & Jr's Auto Sales, 1821 Lincoln Highway, Route 30, North Versailles, Pa. Co-owners were listed as Frank J. Rosa, 1152 Jefferson Heights Road, Pittsburgh, Pa., and Anthony Persichetti, 22 Glenbrook Drive, Pittsburgh, Pa. (brother-in-law of Louis Raucci).

Various records indicate that Frank Joseph Rosa was born February 21, 1939, in Pittsburgh, Pa.; is a white male, residing at 339 Sunset Drive, Wilkins Township, Allegheny Co., Pa.; and is employed as a bail bondsman by Carolina Casualty Company, Bakewell Building, Pittsburgh. He has no arrest record. Sources have advised that Frank Joseph Rosa, more commonly known as "Little Joe" Rosa or Joe Rosa, Jr., is the son of Guiseppe Rosa, also known as Joseph Rosa. [JFK65]

Frank Rosa was a former capo in the Family and was convicted of extortion in 1975. He was never jailed because of his poor health. His principal activities were prostitution and illegal numbers. His "territory" was inherited by Frank D. Amato, Jr.

ROSA, FRANK JOSEPH, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 1982, beloved husband of Josephine Sica, father of Esterina DiFrank, Joseph Frank Rosa and Genevieve Weber; brother of Elizabeth Cacese, Marcella Smith and Eileen Bacco; grandfather of Amber Marie DiFrank. Friends may call at Morasco-Knee-Soxman, Ltd., 9406 Frankstown Rd., Penn Hills. Mass of Christian Burial in St. John Fisher Catholic Church, Saturday, 12 noon.

Children of Josephine Sica and Frank Rosa are:
+ 10 i. Joseph Frank "Joey"5 Rosa, born Abt. 1959 in Of Penn Hills.
+ 11 ii. Esterina "Rina" Rosa, born July 02, 1957.
12 iii. Genevieve Rosa. She married (Husband) Weber.


Generation No. 5

10. Joseph Frank "Joey"5 Rosa (Josephine4 Sica, Joseph3, Luigi2, Antonio1) was born Abt. 1959 in Of Penn Hills.

Notes for Joseph Frank "Joey" Rosa:
Joseph F. Rosa, 31, of Jefferson Heights Road, Penn Hills, is a burly weightlifter who spent his entire life around La Cosa Nostra -- his late father, Frank, and his grandfather, Joseph Sica, both have been identified as members of the mob.
While his Penn Hills classmates studied algebra and prepared for their college boards, Joseph Rosa prepared himself for his family's business. For Rosa, the family business was La Cosa Nostra, the enterprise for which his father and grandfather worked.
Rosa described how he began his criminal career by selling marijuana while in high school. From drug dealing, Rosa graduated to staging robberies of drug dealers. He said he robbed his supplier of 40 pounds of marijuana by getting two friends to pose as police and stage a phony drug bust. He put lights and a siren in his car and obtained the police credentials of a friend's father, he said. When his friends pulled up with the lights flashing, his supplier fled, leaving Rosa and his cohorts the marijuana, which was eventually sold for $20,000.
Also in high school, Rosa said, he began gambling, betting thousands of dollars on sporting events with bookies. One of the bookies refused to pay him $5,000 he had won, so, when he and a friend lost $28,000 on a football game with the same bookie, Rosa said he refused to pay. Shortly afterward, Rosa's grandfather, Joseph Sica, told him that Kelly Mannarino wanted to see him at Mannarino's candy store -- Catoris Candy Co. in New Kensington. He said Sica took him and his friend to the meeting. "Mr. Mannarino, he grabbed me and sat me down. I was real scared ... He said we were little punks and all the money was going to him anyway ... He said we had no business betting," Rosa said. Then, after about an hour of yelling at the two young gamblers, Rosa said, Mannarino told them, "'If you ever need anything, come and see me,' and he gave me two tickets to a Steeler game." "Did you ever gamble after that incident?" Teitelbaum said. "No, I didn't," Rosa replied. By the time he graduated in 1978, he was an experienced dealer and rip-off artist.
Rosa said was introduced to La Cosa Nostra when he watched associates of the elder Rosa deliver envelopes with large sums of cash to his home. He said he often observed his father and Raucci counting money. Saying his father never held a legitimate job, Rosa said his father told him about the family business. "He told me that he was into gambling, Shylocking (loan sharking), prostitution, bookmaking," the younger Rosa said. Sica, now 83, was in the same line of work, Rosa said, describing visits to his grandfather's McKeesport vending business, where he often saw stacks of money. Rosa said his father told him that he and his grandfather were members of a criminal organization. "He said it was the family. It was an organized thing ... known as the Mafia and everybody had different territories ... That's how they made their living," Rosa said, explaining his father's territory was Penn Hills and Monroeville, and Sica had McKeesport, East McKeesport and Irwin.
In the 1970s, he said, he accompanied his father and grandfather when they made trips to LaRocca's headquarters at the Allegheny Car Wash on the North Side. Through his family, he said, he also met Genovese, Thomas "Sonny" Ciancutti and Louis Volpe, all of whom have been identified as Mafia members by the Crime Commission. Genovese, 70, lives in West Deer, and Ciancutti, 62, lives in Arnold, Westmoreland County. Volpe died in 1987. Rosa said his father explained to him that he needed to show a legitimate source of income on his federal tax returns, so Meyer Sigal, former owner of Daily Juice Co., arranged for him and Raucci to have phony jobs at the company. Rosa testified he was often sent on errands to pick up and deliver their checks.
Shortly before his father died, Rosa said, his father gave him a black book containing names of people who owed him money. The young man was instructed to get help from Raucci if he had trouble collecting, he said, adding he gave the book to Raucci and never saw it again.
He held several legitimate jobs, first working in construction and then, with $50,000 from his father, opening a jewelry store in the Clark Building, Downtown. Though the business was profitable, he grew tired of it as he became involved in cocaine trafficking. So he staged a burglary to liquidate the inventory.
Rosa's acceptance into the mob family came after he staged a burglary at his own jewelry store -- JR Jewelers, which was located in the Clark Building, Downtown. He said several months after the burglary, Porter approached him about selling the jewels to a Florida man. So Rosa, Porter and Joseph Bertone, a McKeesport restaurant owner who disappeared in 1985, went to Florida to negotiate the sale.
Although the jewelry was worth several hundred thousand dollars, Porter told Rosa the contact was only willing to pay $60,000, Rosa said. At first, Rosa balked, believing he was being cheated. Rosa said Bertone urged him to accept the deal, saying it was a "good way for me to get in good with these guys." He said he was referring to mob members like Genovese, who thought he was a reckless kid. In early 1985, after collecting about $20,000 for his jewelry and letting Porter have the rest, Rosa said he was summoned to a meeting with Genovese. "You just listen to us and do what we tell you. You're with us now," Rosa said Genovese told him.
Joseph Rosa described an organized crime family without honor: Its members double-crossed each other, and new leaders took the family into the drug business against the wishes of elder members. Rosa said Sica, Gabriel "Kelly" Mannarino and John LaRocca disapproved of drug trafficking as a way to generate profits for the mob. So he was forced to lie to his grandfather, Joseph Sica, about his involvement in the drug business. Once the old leaders passed on, many of the new leaders were involved in the drug business.
During the same period, Rosa said, he met Bertone and began buying and selling large quantities of cocaine. He said both Raucci and Porter were involved, helping him set up deals with a Cuban national living in Miami, Ramon Sosa, 35, a defendant in this case. Over Easter weekend in 1985, Rosa said, he, Bertone, Porter and Chiarelli went to Florida to buy large quantities of cocaine. But when the supplier didn't deliver the drug as quickly as they were expecting it, Chiarelli left the group because he "wanted to go home for Easter dinner with his family," Rosa said. Chiarelli returned to Florida the Monday after Easter to help them complete the deal, Rosa said. Rosa said Porter collected a share of the profits from that deal and later had to intervene when Sosa claimed he was cheated of $6,000. Chiarelli and Bertone accused each other of pocketing that money, Rosa said, explaining that Porter intervened to settle the dispute. For every kilogram of cocaine sold, Porter collected $2,000, Rosa also testified.
In June 1985, when he and Bertone were preparing to travel to Florida to pick up more cocaine. Bertone, a McKeesport restaurant owner, disappeared in June 1985 and is believed to have been killed in retaliation for a drug rip-off. His car was recovered in Harmar about 10 days after his disappearance.
Rosa said Porter was angry when he learned Rosa had cheated Sosa out of $250,000 in another cocaine deal. Rosa said Raucci took him to Porter's house for a meeting and that Porter ''was furious. He said, "You ripped that Cuban off. That's our source, our connection.' " When Porter demanded the entire $250,000, Rosa said he persuaded him to accept half because the rest of the money had been spent on expenses generated by the rip-off. After paying Porter the $125,000, Rosa said Chiarelli told him the money was divided four ways among Chiarelli, Porter, Raucci and Genovese. In other testimony, Rosa said he began buying cocaine from another defendant, Irwin Levie, 53, of Hallandale, Fla., after the Sosa rip-off. He also testified that he was involved in some drug deals with Michael Rosenfeld, 31, of Saltsburg Road, Penn Hills, who also is on trial.
Rosa's fall came in 1988, when he was arrested on charges of running a large-scale cocaine-trafficking enterprise. Facing life in prison without parole, he decided to cooperate with the government. In exchange for his guilty plea and cooperation, he got 10 years without parole and was placed in the federal Witness Protection Program.
Rosa became the government's star witness in the trial [Sept 1990] of Porter, 56, of Old William Penn Highway and Raucci, 60, of Hulton Road, both Penn Hills, and their seven codefendants, including Chiarelli, 47, of Spruce Street, Cheswick.

(From an article in the PG 5/29/96
For 10 years, Penn Hills native Joseph Rosa has been playing the witness protection game: Break the law, get caught, become a protected witness by testifying against others, get released, break the law, and so on. Over and over Rosa has worked the system, parlaying more than 50 years in jail for fraud and drug crimes into freedom. All told, he has done just three years in jail. Even Rosa admits he has abused the program. But he says the broken promises of witness protection actually help make crime a habit.

Children of Joseph Frank "Joey" Rosa are:
13 i. Jason6 Rosa/DiFrank, born Abt. 1984.
14 ii. Anthony Rosa/Weber, born Abt. 1984.


11. Esterina "Rina"5 Rosa (Josephine4 Sica, Joseph3, Luigi2, Antonio1) was born July 02, 1957. She married Gary DiFrank. He was born January 19, 1958.

Child of Esterina Rosa and Gary DiFrank is:
15 i. Amber Marie6 DiFrank. She married (Husband) Yon.