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Romeo Anthony Gianelly
Romeo Anthony Gianelly,
88, died Sunday April 27,
2003 at the Life Care Center of Stoneham. Romeo
was born in Naples, Italy and came to the United States at the age of three when
his family settled in the West End of Boston where he was educated. When he
completed school he became an amateur boxer and started driving cab in the
Boston area. He then obtained his own cab medallion and drove cab independently
in the Boston area for many year until his retirement in 1980. He also worked as
a mutual clerk at Suffolk Downs Race Track
in East Boston. He was a communicant of St. Joseph's
Parish in Malden and he loved to travel with his wife since his
retirement. He was a resident of the West End of Boston until moving to Malden
in 1953 where he has resided for the past fifty years.
He is survived by his wife Carmela (Gianino) Gianelly his
son, Richard Gianelly his daughter, Judith Connelly his sisters, Elizabeth Milas
and Florence Stack, his three grandchildren and his five great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his father Ralph Gianelly, and
his mother Lena.
Visitation will be held at Weir MacCuish Golden Rule
Funeral Home, 144 Salem St., Malden
on Tuesday from 4-7 PM.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at
9 A.M. in St. Joseph's
Church, 770 Salem St., Malden. The
Rev. Richard T. Bakker of St. Joseph's will be celebrant.
Burial will be in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett.
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