Joey, as we called him, was the ninth child born to his parents and the second of three sons. He was very active as a young adult and would get into trouble often. He joined the Navy on January 31, 1944, about a month shy of 18 years old. He departed San Francisco on November 28, 1945 rated a PhM3/c. on the USS Enright bound for Manila in the Philippines. On March 9, 1946 he reported to the USS PGM16. On May 28, 1946 his rating was PhM2/c and he was transferred to R/S Navy 3002 FFT to separation center at Lido Beach for discharge.
After the war he married and took advantage of his veteran's benefits, purchasing a home in West Hempstead, NY, living next door to his older brother. During this time the three brothers created Combine Cutting Corporation, a die cutting business in Greenpoint, NY. He enjoyed going to horse races with his older brother. He had two children, but the marriage ended in divorce. The business dissolved and the brothers went their own ways.
He remarried in 1962 and had a son and lived first in Brooklyn, then in Queens. His health started failing in 1990 when after a second heart attack it was discovered that he was in the earliest, treatable stages of leukemia. This placed him in an unenviable Catch-22. His heart was too weak to treat the leukemia, but they couldn't do the bypass surgery his heart needed because of how the leukemia was affecting his white blood cells. As a result he grew weaker and weaker until he died in April of 1991 from the toll taken by the combination of illnesses.
Military Information: PHM2, US NAVY
After the war he married and took advantage of his veteran's benefits, purchasing a home in West Hempstead, NY, living next door to his older brother. During this time the three brothers created Combine Cutting Corporation, a die cutting business in Greenpoint, NY. He enjoyed going to horse races with his older brother. He had two children, but the marriage ended in divorce. The business dissolved and the brothers went their own ways.
He remarried in 1962 and had a son and lived first in Brooklyn, then in Queens. His health started failing in 1990 when after a second heart attack it was discovered that he was in the earliest, treatable stages of leukemia. This placed him in an unenviable Catch-22. His heart was too weak to treat the leukemia, but they couldn't do the bypass surgery his heart needed because of how the leukemia was affecting his white blood cells. As a result he grew weaker and weaker until he died in April of 1991 from the toll taken by the combination of illnesses.
Military Information: PHM2, US NAVY
Joey, as we called him, was the ninth child born to his parents and the second of three sons. He was very active as a young adult and would get into trouble often. He joined the Navy on January 31, 1944, about a month shy of 18 years old. He departed San Francisco on November 28, 1945 rated a PhM3/c. on the USS Enright bound for Manila in the Philippines. On March 9, 1946 he reported to the USS PGM16. On May 28, 1946 his rating was PhM2/c and he was transferred to R/S Navy 3002 FFT to separation center at Lido Beach for discharge.
After the war he married and took advantage of his veteran's benefits, purchasing a home in West Hempstead, NY, living next door to his older brother. During this time the three brothers created Combine Cutting Corporation, a die cutting business in Greenpoint, NY. He enjoyed going to horse races with his older brother. He had two children, but the marriage ended in divorce. The business dissolved and the brothers went their own ways.
He remarried in 1962 and had a son and lived first in Brooklyn, then in Queens. His health started failing in 1990 when after a second heart attack it was discovered that he was in the earliest, treatable stages of leukemia. This placed him in an unenviable Catch-22. His heart was too weak to treat the leukemia, but they couldn't do the bypass surgery his heart needed because of how the leukemia was affecting his white blood cells. As a result he grew weaker and weaker until he died in April of 1991 from the toll taken by the combination of illnesses.
Military Information: PHM2, US NAVY
After the war he married and took advantage of his veteran's benefits, purchasing a home in West Hempstead, NY, living next door to his older brother. During this time the three brothers created Combine Cutting Corporation, a die cutting business in Greenpoint, NY. He enjoyed going to horse races with his older brother. He had two children, but the marriage ended in divorce. The business dissolved and the brothers went their own ways.
He remarried in 1962 and had a son and lived first in Brooklyn, then in Queens. His health started failing in 1990 when after a second heart attack it was discovered that he was in the earliest, treatable stages of leukemia. This placed him in an unenviable Catch-22. His heart was too weak to treat the leukemia, but they couldn't do the bypass surgery his heart needed because of how the leukemia was affecting his white blood cells. As a result he grew weaker and weaker until he died in April of 1991 from the toll taken by the combination of illnesses.
Military Information: PHM2, US NAVY
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