Angelo was the son of Leonardo and Rose LoBue Mangiaracina.
My father, Angelo C. Mangiaracina died peacefully at home on December 27, 2021. Had he lived another six weeks he would have celebrated his ninety ninth birthday.
Like many of his generation, he volunteered for the US Armed Forces very soon after Pearl Harbor and was inducted into the Army Air Force in early 1942. For most of his thirty eight months of service he was stationed in various parts of the Pacific theater of war.
He married our mother, Catherine Filippelli in January, 1946, just three weeks post discharge.
He told me that although jobs were plentiful for recently discharged veterans, he chose self employment. He and his brother-in-law, Bruno Filippelli rapidly learned the trades of printing and book binding, purchased a bankrupt business of the same type in Brooklyn and reopened soon thereafter. Hard work, patience and determination sustained them until retirement in 1985.
By that time, my sister Karen and I were well established in our chosen professions. Our parents doted on us and our spouses. They even lived to see three great grandchildren.
Our father exemplified a life well lived. Honestly, kindness and most importantly gratitude were, for him, simply habits of daily living.
Thomas Mangiaracina, MD
My father, Angelo C. Mangiaracina died peacefully at home on December 27, 2021. Had he lived another six weeks he would have celebrated his ninety ninth birthday.
Like many of his generation, he volunteered for the US Armed Forces very soon after Pearl Harbor and was inducted into the Army Air Force in early 1942. For most of his thirty eight months of service he was stationed in various parts of the Pacific theater of war.
He married our mother, Catherine Filippelli in January, 1946, just three weeks post discharge.
He told me that although jobs were plentiful for recently discharged veterans, he chose self employment. He and his brother-in-law, Bruno Filippelli rapidly learned the trades of printing and book binding, purchased a bankrupt business of the same type in Brooklyn and reopened soon thereafter. Hard work, patience and determination sustained them until retirement in 1985.
By that time, my sister Karen and I were well established in our chosen professions. Our parents doted on us and our spouses. They even lived to see three great grandchildren.
Our father exemplified a life well lived. Honestly, kindness and most importantly gratitude were, for him, simply habits of daily living.
Thomas Mangiaracina, MD
Angelo was the son of Leonardo and Rose LoBue Mangiaracina.
My father, Angelo C. Mangiaracina died peacefully at home on December 27, 2021. Had he lived another six weeks he would have celebrated his ninety ninth birthday.
Like many of his generation, he volunteered for the US Armed Forces very soon after Pearl Harbor and was inducted into the Army Air Force in early 1942. For most of his thirty eight months of service he was stationed in various parts of the Pacific theater of war.
He married our mother, Catherine Filippelli in January, 1946, just three weeks post discharge.
He told me that although jobs were plentiful for recently discharged veterans, he chose self employment. He and his brother-in-law, Bruno Filippelli rapidly learned the trades of printing and book binding, purchased a bankrupt business of the same type in Brooklyn and reopened soon thereafter. Hard work, patience and determination sustained them until retirement in 1985.
By that time, my sister Karen and I were well established in our chosen professions. Our parents doted on us and our spouses. They even lived to see three great grandchildren.
Our father exemplified a life well lived. Honestly, kindness and most importantly gratitude were, for him, simply habits of daily living.
Thomas Mangiaracina, MD
My father, Angelo C. Mangiaracina died peacefully at home on December 27, 2021. Had he lived another six weeks he would have celebrated his ninety ninth birthday.
Like many of his generation, he volunteered for the US Armed Forces very soon after Pearl Harbor and was inducted into the Army Air Force in early 1942. For most of his thirty eight months of service he was stationed in various parts of the Pacific theater of war.
He married our mother, Catherine Filippelli in January, 1946, just three weeks post discharge.
He told me that although jobs were plentiful for recently discharged veterans, he chose self employment. He and his brother-in-law, Bruno Filippelli rapidly learned the trades of printing and book binding, purchased a bankrupt business of the same type in Brooklyn and reopened soon thereafter. Hard work, patience and determination sustained them until retirement in 1985.
By that time, my sister Karen and I were well established in our chosen professions. Our parents doted on us and our spouses. They even lived to see three great grandchildren.
Our father exemplified a life well lived. Honestly, kindness and most importantly gratitude were, for him, simply habits of daily living.
Thomas Mangiaracina, MD
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