Attilio Harold Cenedella died Sunday, July 18, 2010.
He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1921, Hal moved with his family in 1931 to Northern California. He attended Berkeley High School and graduated from the University of California, War Class 1943-46.
He joined the United States Navy in 1942, and served in the Pacific during World War II on the USS Vestal until 1946. After the war he attended Hastings College of Law, University of California in San Francisco.
Among his many occupations, were delivering newspapers in Berkeley while in high school, pumping gas, selling Edy's Ice Cream in Berkeley in 1937, working in the shipyards of Kaiser steel, waiting on tables at the Jolly Roger at the San Francisco 1939 World's Fair on Treasure Island, building furniture for his father's furniture company, Cenedella-Miller Furniture Company, selling real estate for Pittman Realty during summer breaks from college, obtaining his brokers' license and selling real estate with his father for Coldwell, Conwell and Banker. Attending OCS at Columbia University in New York City in 1941-42, deep-sea diving for rescue and recovery and manning assault guns during attacks during the war, co-founding his farm, Rancho Cenedella and dairy farming with his brother in Marysville for 10 years. Acting as general contractor and building houses behind the Hotel Claremont in Oakland, California, contracting and building houses in Port Coquitlam in Vancouver, British Columbia, owning and running a liquor distributorship in Reno, Nevada, selling real estate in Lafayette and Grass Valley, California, working for Clint Murchison of Dallas, Texas building houses in Doheny Estates, Los Angeles, California, building roads and heavy construction for Oscar C. Holmes in Menlo Park, California. Selling real estate for August Associates and later, for his own company, Cenedella & Company, Incorporated in Menlo Park, which he owned and operated from 1969 until 2000. He expanded his real estate company and opened a branch in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as his investment companies, Cenedella-Burns Investment Company and Virpac Associates.
In 1995, he moved to Charlottesville to manage his real estate investments of houses and office buildings, retiring in 2001 at the age of 80.
Work defined his life and he was adamant about his need to keep busy and be useful. He had the tenderest of hearts, especially for his animals, among them his dogs over the years, Brutus, Cassandra, Freddy, Maggie, Lucy and Stockton and his cat, YumYum.
His parents, Attilio Horace Cenedella and Rosina Sartori Cenedella; an infant son, Bart and his son, Brant William, predeceased him.
He is survived by his loving wife, Virginia Burns Cenedella of Charlottesville; his son, Arn Harold Cenedella; and his grandsons, Alexander and Austin Cenedella of California.
Friends were asked to send a donation to Caring for Creatures, 352 Sanctuary Lane, Palmyra, VA 22963.
At his request, there was no funeral service. A memorial service was announced at a later date.
Published in the Daily Progress from July 21 to July 25, 2010
He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1921, Hal moved with his family in 1931 to Northern California. He attended Berkeley High School and graduated from the University of California, War Class 1943-46.
He joined the United States Navy in 1942, and served in the Pacific during World War II on the USS Vestal until 1946. After the war he attended Hastings College of Law, University of California in San Francisco.
Among his many occupations, were delivering newspapers in Berkeley while in high school, pumping gas, selling Edy's Ice Cream in Berkeley in 1937, working in the shipyards of Kaiser steel, waiting on tables at the Jolly Roger at the San Francisco 1939 World's Fair on Treasure Island, building furniture for his father's furniture company, Cenedella-Miller Furniture Company, selling real estate for Pittman Realty during summer breaks from college, obtaining his brokers' license and selling real estate with his father for Coldwell, Conwell and Banker. Attending OCS at Columbia University in New York City in 1941-42, deep-sea diving for rescue and recovery and manning assault guns during attacks during the war, co-founding his farm, Rancho Cenedella and dairy farming with his brother in Marysville for 10 years. Acting as general contractor and building houses behind the Hotel Claremont in Oakland, California, contracting and building houses in Port Coquitlam in Vancouver, British Columbia, owning and running a liquor distributorship in Reno, Nevada, selling real estate in Lafayette and Grass Valley, California, working for Clint Murchison of Dallas, Texas building houses in Doheny Estates, Los Angeles, California, building roads and heavy construction for Oscar C. Holmes in Menlo Park, California. Selling real estate for August Associates and later, for his own company, Cenedella & Company, Incorporated in Menlo Park, which he owned and operated from 1969 until 2000. He expanded his real estate company and opened a branch in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as his investment companies, Cenedella-Burns Investment Company and Virpac Associates.
In 1995, he moved to Charlottesville to manage his real estate investments of houses and office buildings, retiring in 2001 at the age of 80.
Work defined his life and he was adamant about his need to keep busy and be useful. He had the tenderest of hearts, especially for his animals, among them his dogs over the years, Brutus, Cassandra, Freddy, Maggie, Lucy and Stockton and his cat, YumYum.
His parents, Attilio Horace Cenedella and Rosina Sartori Cenedella; an infant son, Bart and his son, Brant William, predeceased him.
He is survived by his loving wife, Virginia Burns Cenedella of Charlottesville; his son, Arn Harold Cenedella; and his grandsons, Alexander and Austin Cenedella of California.
Friends were asked to send a donation to Caring for Creatures, 352 Sanctuary Lane, Palmyra, VA 22963.
At his request, there was no funeral service. A memorial service was announced at a later date.
Published in the Daily Progress from July 21 to July 25, 2010
Attilio Harold Cenedella died Sunday, July 18, 2010.
He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1921, Hal moved with his family in 1931 to Northern California. He attended Berkeley High School and graduated from the University of California, War Class 1943-46.
He joined the United States Navy in 1942, and served in the Pacific during World War II on the USS Vestal until 1946. After the war he attended Hastings College of Law, University of California in San Francisco.
Among his many occupations, were delivering newspapers in Berkeley while in high school, pumping gas, selling Edy's Ice Cream in Berkeley in 1937, working in the shipyards of Kaiser steel, waiting on tables at the Jolly Roger at the San Francisco 1939 World's Fair on Treasure Island, building furniture for his father's furniture company, Cenedella-Miller Furniture Company, selling real estate for Pittman Realty during summer breaks from college, obtaining his brokers' license and selling real estate with his father for Coldwell, Conwell and Banker. Attending OCS at Columbia University in New York City in 1941-42, deep-sea diving for rescue and recovery and manning assault guns during attacks during the war, co-founding his farm, Rancho Cenedella and dairy farming with his brother in Marysville for 10 years. Acting as general contractor and building houses behind the Hotel Claremont in Oakland, California, contracting and building houses in Port Coquitlam in Vancouver, British Columbia, owning and running a liquor distributorship in Reno, Nevada, selling real estate in Lafayette and Grass Valley, California, working for Clint Murchison of Dallas, Texas building houses in Doheny Estates, Los Angeles, California, building roads and heavy construction for Oscar C. Holmes in Menlo Park, California. Selling real estate for August Associates and later, for his own company, Cenedella & Company, Incorporated in Menlo Park, which he owned and operated from 1969 until 2000. He expanded his real estate company and opened a branch in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as his investment companies, Cenedella-Burns Investment Company and Virpac Associates.
In 1995, he moved to Charlottesville to manage his real estate investments of houses and office buildings, retiring in 2001 at the age of 80.
Work defined his life and he was adamant about his need to keep busy and be useful. He had the tenderest of hearts, especially for his animals, among them his dogs over the years, Brutus, Cassandra, Freddy, Maggie, Lucy and Stockton and his cat, YumYum.
His parents, Attilio Horace Cenedella and Rosina Sartori Cenedella; an infant son, Bart and his son, Brant William, predeceased him.
He is survived by his loving wife, Virginia Burns Cenedella of Charlottesville; his son, Arn Harold Cenedella; and his grandsons, Alexander and Austin Cenedella of California.
Friends were asked to send a donation to Caring for Creatures, 352 Sanctuary Lane, Palmyra, VA 22963.
At his request, there was no funeral service. A memorial service was announced at a later date.
Published in the Daily Progress from July 21 to July 25, 2010
He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, on January 30, 1921, Hal moved with his family in 1931 to Northern California. He attended Berkeley High School and graduated from the University of California, War Class 1943-46.
He joined the United States Navy in 1942, and served in the Pacific during World War II on the USS Vestal until 1946. After the war he attended Hastings College of Law, University of California in San Francisco.
Among his many occupations, were delivering newspapers in Berkeley while in high school, pumping gas, selling Edy's Ice Cream in Berkeley in 1937, working in the shipyards of Kaiser steel, waiting on tables at the Jolly Roger at the San Francisco 1939 World's Fair on Treasure Island, building furniture for his father's furniture company, Cenedella-Miller Furniture Company, selling real estate for Pittman Realty during summer breaks from college, obtaining his brokers' license and selling real estate with his father for Coldwell, Conwell and Banker. Attending OCS at Columbia University in New York City in 1941-42, deep-sea diving for rescue and recovery and manning assault guns during attacks during the war, co-founding his farm, Rancho Cenedella and dairy farming with his brother in Marysville for 10 years. Acting as general contractor and building houses behind the Hotel Claremont in Oakland, California, contracting and building houses in Port Coquitlam in Vancouver, British Columbia, owning and running a liquor distributorship in Reno, Nevada, selling real estate in Lafayette and Grass Valley, California, working for Clint Murchison of Dallas, Texas building houses in Doheny Estates, Los Angeles, California, building roads and heavy construction for Oscar C. Holmes in Menlo Park, California. Selling real estate for August Associates and later, for his own company, Cenedella & Company, Incorporated in Menlo Park, which he owned and operated from 1969 until 2000. He expanded his real estate company and opened a branch in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as his investment companies, Cenedella-Burns Investment Company and Virpac Associates.
In 1995, he moved to Charlottesville to manage his real estate investments of houses and office buildings, retiring in 2001 at the age of 80.
Work defined his life and he was adamant about his need to keep busy and be useful. He had the tenderest of hearts, especially for his animals, among them his dogs over the years, Brutus, Cassandra, Freddy, Maggie, Lucy and Stockton and his cat, YumYum.
His parents, Attilio Horace Cenedella and Rosina Sartori Cenedella; an infant son, Bart and his son, Brant William, predeceased him.
He is survived by his loving wife, Virginia Burns Cenedella of Charlottesville; his son, Arn Harold Cenedella; and his grandsons, Alexander and Austin Cenedella of California.
Friends were asked to send a donation to Caring for Creatures, 352 Sanctuary Lane, Palmyra, VA 22963.
At his request, there was no funeral service. A memorial service was announced at a later date.
Published in the Daily Progress from July 21 to July 25, 2010
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