Staten Island Advance
Staten Island, New York
Monday, August 1, 2005
DECIO GIOVANNIELLO
Retired gardener also owned laundry service
Longtime Staten Islander Decio (Dee) Giovanniello, 88, of Oakwood, a World War II veteran and the retired head gardener for three of the Island's parks, died Saturday at Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, after a five-year battle with cancer.
Born in Altovilla Irpina, a town near Naples, Italy, Mr. Giovanniello came to America at age 5, and grew up in Concord. He moved to Tompkinsville in 1942, then to New Brighton in 1951, before settling in Oakwood in 1969.
He attended Curtis High School and played on the school's soccer team.
Mr. Giovanniello served in the Army from 1941 to 1945, driving a tank for Battalion 775. He was stationed in Papua New Guinea for eight months under General Douglas MacArthur, and was part of the invasion of Luzon, the Philippines. Mr. Giovanniello attained the rank of sergeant.
From 1951 to 1982, he owned and operated American Laundry Services in Stapleton.
He returned to work after his retirement, as a gardener at Great Kills Park, Miller Field and Fort Wadsworth for the National Parks Service. He worked at the parks from 1985 to 2001, spending the last four of five years there as the parks' head seasonal gardener.
In 1994, Mr. Giovanniello made headlines when he turned a massive tire that washed up onto a field at Great Kills Park into a flower garden.
He was a member of the Richmond County Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Dalessio Post, American Legion, the Sunshine Golf Club of Silver Lake, and the former Eagles Club in Stapleton.
Mr. Giovanniello enjoyed gardening, golf and bowling, and loved teasing and joking with friends and family.
Mr. Giovanniello attended St. Charles R.C. Church, Oakwood.
The funeral will be Wednesday from the Richmond Funeral Home, Grant City, with a mass at 9:15 a.m. in St. Charles Church. Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
Staten Island, New York
Monday, August 1, 2005
DECIO GIOVANNIELLO
Retired gardener also owned laundry service
Longtime Staten Islander Decio (Dee) Giovanniello, 88, of Oakwood, a World War II veteran and the retired head gardener for three of the Island's parks, died Saturday at Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, after a five-year battle with cancer.
Born in Altovilla Irpina, a town near Naples, Italy, Mr. Giovanniello came to America at age 5, and grew up in Concord. He moved to Tompkinsville in 1942, then to New Brighton in 1951, before settling in Oakwood in 1969.
He attended Curtis High School and played on the school's soccer team.
Mr. Giovanniello served in the Army from 1941 to 1945, driving a tank for Battalion 775. He was stationed in Papua New Guinea for eight months under General Douglas MacArthur, and was part of the invasion of Luzon, the Philippines. Mr. Giovanniello attained the rank of sergeant.
From 1951 to 1982, he owned and operated American Laundry Services in Stapleton.
He returned to work after his retirement, as a gardener at Great Kills Park, Miller Field and Fort Wadsworth for the National Parks Service. He worked at the parks from 1985 to 2001, spending the last four of five years there as the parks' head seasonal gardener.
In 1994, Mr. Giovanniello made headlines when he turned a massive tire that washed up onto a field at Great Kills Park into a flower garden.
He was a member of the Richmond County Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Dalessio Post, American Legion, the Sunshine Golf Club of Silver Lake, and the former Eagles Club in Stapleton.
Mr. Giovanniello enjoyed gardening, golf and bowling, and loved teasing and joking with friends and family.
Mr. Giovanniello attended St. Charles R.C. Church, Oakwood.
The funeral will be Wednesday from the Richmond Funeral Home, Grant City, with a mass at 9:15 a.m. in St. Charles Church. Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
Staten Island Advance
Staten Island, New York
Monday, August 1, 2005
DECIO GIOVANNIELLO
Retired gardener also owned laundry service
Longtime Staten Islander Decio (Dee) Giovanniello, 88, of Oakwood, a World War II veteran and the retired head gardener for three of the Island's parks, died Saturday at Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, after a five-year battle with cancer.
Born in Altovilla Irpina, a town near Naples, Italy, Mr. Giovanniello came to America at age 5, and grew up in Concord. He moved to Tompkinsville in 1942, then to New Brighton in 1951, before settling in Oakwood in 1969.
He attended Curtis High School and played on the school's soccer team.
Mr. Giovanniello served in the Army from 1941 to 1945, driving a tank for Battalion 775. He was stationed in Papua New Guinea for eight months under General Douglas MacArthur, and was part of the invasion of Luzon, the Philippines. Mr. Giovanniello attained the rank of sergeant.
From 1951 to 1982, he owned and operated American Laundry Services in Stapleton.
He returned to work after his retirement, as a gardener at Great Kills Park, Miller Field and Fort Wadsworth for the National Parks Service. He worked at the parks from 1985 to 2001, spending the last four of five years there as the parks' head seasonal gardener.
In 1994, Mr. Giovanniello made headlines when he turned a massive tire that washed up onto a field at Great Kills Park into a flower garden.
He was a member of the Richmond County Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Dalessio Post, American Legion, the Sunshine Golf Club of Silver Lake, and the former Eagles Club in Stapleton.
Mr. Giovanniello enjoyed gardening, golf and bowling, and loved teasing and joking with friends and family.
Mr. Giovanniello attended St. Charles R.C. Church, Oakwood.
The funeral will be Wednesday from the Richmond Funeral Home, Grant City, with a mass at 9:15 a.m. in St. Charles Church. Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
Staten Island, New York
Monday, August 1, 2005
DECIO GIOVANNIELLO
Retired gardener also owned laundry service
Longtime Staten Islander Decio (Dee) Giovanniello, 88, of Oakwood, a World War II veteran and the retired head gardener for three of the Island's parks, died Saturday at Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, after a five-year battle with cancer.
Born in Altovilla Irpina, a town near Naples, Italy, Mr. Giovanniello came to America at age 5, and grew up in Concord. He moved to Tompkinsville in 1942, then to New Brighton in 1951, before settling in Oakwood in 1969.
He attended Curtis High School and played on the school's soccer team.
Mr. Giovanniello served in the Army from 1941 to 1945, driving a tank for Battalion 775. He was stationed in Papua New Guinea for eight months under General Douglas MacArthur, and was part of the invasion of Luzon, the Philippines. Mr. Giovanniello attained the rank of sergeant.
From 1951 to 1982, he owned and operated American Laundry Services in Stapleton.
He returned to work after his retirement, as a gardener at Great Kills Park, Miller Field and Fort Wadsworth for the National Parks Service. He worked at the parks from 1985 to 2001, spending the last four of five years there as the parks' head seasonal gardener.
In 1994, Mr. Giovanniello made headlines when he turned a massive tire that washed up onto a field at Great Kills Park into a flower garden.
He was a member of the Richmond County Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Dalessio Post, American Legion, the Sunshine Golf Club of Silver Lake, and the former Eagles Club in Stapleton.
Mr. Giovanniello enjoyed gardening, golf and bowling, and loved teasing and joking with friends and family.
Mr. Giovanniello attended St. Charles R.C. Church, Oakwood.
The funeral will be Wednesday from the Richmond Funeral Home, Grant City, with a mass at 9:15 a.m. in St. Charles Church. Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
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