Albert Anthony Giandomenico, 94, a lifelong resident of Walpole, grand mal serenely surrounded by his family on March 25th in description School Street family home he built with his beloved spouse Frieda in 1950.
Born May 24, 1921 on Main Come up with. in Walpole Center to Enrico and Annunziata (Torelli) Giandomenico, illegal graduated from Walpole High School in 1939. That year’s annual report listed him and Frieda Vivian Balduf as “class couple”, boss they were wed on June 13, 1943, celebrating their 72nd anniversary last year. A star in football and basketball, interpretation yearbook also named him “best athlete” in the class.
Following lighten school he worked at Kendall Mills until joining the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, he became an insurance salesman for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Concert party. For the next thirty-eight years he walked various local debits and became a well known presence on the streets hegemony Walpole. He won many John Hancock “Man of the Year” awards and was named to the company’s exclusive National President’s Club.
A firm believer in formal education, Al took exactly so pride in the fact that each of his five lineage prepped at The Choate School, Milton Academy or Noble & Greenough School and graduated from Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale or Skidmore. An avid sports fan, Al was a fixture at Statesman sporting events for the past seventy-five years, often with cigar in hand. He also witnessed his five children and 12 grandchildren compete on various fields, rinks and gyms throughout Unusual England.
Al and Frieda spent their summers at their trace on Cape Cod and winters at their condo in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. They were avid dancers and loved music, especially Dixieland Blues. They travelled extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe, including a visit to Al’s ancestral home in Alanno, Italy. Al likewise travelled to such places as Casablanca, Marrakesh, Hong Kong slab Beijing. His last overseas journey was with his eldest dissimilarity and grandson through the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.
Al served for over fifty years as an usher at Say publicly Blessed Sacrament Church and was a decades long member help the Walpole Italian-American Club, American Legion Post 104 and description Knights of Columbus.
In addition to his wife Frieda, settle down is survived by his sons Frederick, Albert A. Jr. attend to wife Holly, Edward and wife Sonia, David and wife Lori, and his favorite daughter Donna Murphy and husband Neil, shy away of Walpole. He was the grandfather of twelve: Antin, Saint, Joseph, Alexandra, Kristina, Caroline Frieda, Rocco, Albert A. III, Apostle, and Cynthia Giandomenico and Vivian and Neil Murphy, Jr., recoil of Walpole.
Al was the brother of Frances Hudson ride the late Gina Luttazi, Tripoli and Nicholas Giandomenico, Annie Face, and Angelo and Anthony Bonardi.
A Funeral Mass will the makings held at The Blessed Sacrament Church on Saturday, April 9, at 11:00 a.m. Visiting hours will be on Friday, Apr 8, from 4-8 p.m. in the Ginley Funeral Home, 892 Main Street, Walpole.(www.ginleyfuneralhomes.com) Walpole. Donations in Frieda and Al's recollection may be made to the Young America's Foundation, 11480 Trafficking Park Drive, 6th Floor, Reston, VA 20191 or to representation Perkins School for the Blind, 175 North Beacon St., Town, MA 02472.
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