In Memoriam: Brother Anthony Ragucci, CFA
Published Saturday, May 10, 2008
Brother Anthony passed away last April 29, 2008 at the Alexian Village of Tennessee Health Care Center in Signal Mountain, TN. He was 93. He was raised in Morristown, NJ., Brother Anthony served in the US Army during World War II and later worked for a company that built refineries and chemical plants in various parts of the world, including India, Puerto Rico and United States. He came to the Alexian Brothers as a 43-year-old postulant in 1967 after an Alexian Brothers advertisement in a Catholic Magazine caught his eye. He entered the Novitiate in March 1958 and professed his first vows in March 1960. He celebrated his 50th Jubilee as an Alexian Brother about 6 weeks before his death. He was the oldest Alexian Brother in the Immaculate Conception Province.
During his career as an Alexian Brother, Brother Tony served in leadership in Chicago, San Jose, Calif., Milwaukee and Signal Mountain, where he lived for the last several years. "As an Alexian Brother, he was extremely generous and very dedicated and he carried that to other people outside the Alexian Brothers Community," says Brother John Howard, CFA, Director of Signal Mountain, TN. "He touched a lot of people wherever he went." Fourteen years after Brother Anthony wrapped up a pair of assignments that stretched across parts of three decades in San Jose, the emergency room staff at the former Alexian Brothers Hospital still "reveres him as a wonderful friend because of his personality and his his great interest in them. He was just one of those people -you were important to him and he let you know that."
Funeral Services were held on May 3rd in the San Augustine Chapel at Alexian Brothers in Tennessee. Brother Anthony later was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Sergeant, United States Army, Combat Support Wing, WWII, September 15, 1942-November 21, 1945
EAME and ATO Medals for service at home and in Central Europe, Good Conduct Medal recipient.
In Memoriam: Brother Anthony Ragucci, CFA
Published Saturday, May 10, 2008
Brother Anthony passed away last April 29, 2008 at the Alexian Village of Tennessee Health Care Center in Signal Mountain, TN. He was 93. He was raised in Morristown, NJ., Brother Anthony served in the US Army during World War II and later worked for a company that built refineries and chemical plants in various parts of the world, including India, Puerto Rico and United States. He came to the Alexian Brothers as a 43-year-old postulant in 1967 after an Alexian Brothers advertisement in a Catholic Magazine caught his eye. He entered the Novitiate in March 1958 and professed his first vows in March 1960. He celebrated his 50th Jubilee as an Alexian Brother about 6 weeks before his death. He was the oldest Alexian Brother in the Immaculate Conception Province.
During his career as an Alexian Brother, Brother Tony served in leadership in Chicago, San Jose, Calif., Milwaukee and Signal Mountain, where he lived for the last several years. "As an Alexian Brother, he was extremely generous and very dedicated and he carried that to other people outside the Alexian Brothers Community," says Brother John Howard, CFA, Director of Signal Mountain, TN. "He touched a lot of people wherever he went." Fourteen years after Brother Anthony wrapped up a pair of assignments that stretched across parts of three decades in San Jose, the emergency room staff at the former Alexian Brothers Hospital still "reveres him as a wonderful friend because of his personality and his his great interest in them. He was just one of those people -you were important to him and he let you know that."
Funeral Services were held on May 3rd in the San Augustine Chapel at Alexian Brothers in Tennessee. Brother Anthony later was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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Sergeant, United States Army, Combat Support Wing, WWII, September 15, 1942-November 21, 1945
EAME and ATO Medals for service at home and in Central Europe, Good Conduct Medal recipient.
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