VIRGILIO, Donna Marie of the North End, passed away on July 27th. Loving daughter of the late Angelo “Gabe” and Lucy (DiOrio) Virgilio. Devoted sister of Peter and Elizabeth Virgilio of Florida. Also survived by many fond aunts and cousins. In accordance with the Virgilio Family’s wishes, funeral services will be private. In lieu of Read More…
Raffaela “Lina” (Porcile) Fabbo, age 72, of Boston’s North End, passed away July 29, 2016. She was the beloved wife of Giacomo Fabbo of Boston; Daughter of the late Vincenzo and Giuseppina Porcile; Loving mother of Maurizio Fabbo and his wife Diane of Peabody and Rosina Fabbo of Boston; Cherished grandmother of Isabella and Alessandra Read More…
PETRIGNO, Josephine G. (Petringa) of Boston’s North End, passed away peacefully on July 14, 2016. She was the beloved wife of the late Joseph “Giusto Petrigno. Loving Mother of Sheila Moretti, Mark Petrigno and the late Andrea Spagnuolo. Devoted grandmother of Jeffrey, Gennaro, Alexandra, Arianna, Robert, Joseph, Michael and great grandmother of Isabella, Giulia and Read More…
Antonetta L. (D’Agostino) Bonaffine, of Boston’s North End, passed away peacefully on July 9, 2016. She was the beloved wife of the late Philip M Bonaffine. Loving Mother of Joseph P Bonaffine of Boston’s North End and the late Camile D’Agostino. Dear sister of the late Frank D’Agostino, Betty Denehy, Benedetto D’Agostino, Louis D’Agostino, Peter Read More…
Joanna (Roberta) Contrada, of Boston’s North End, passed away peacefully on July 10, 2016. She was the beloved wife of the late Pasquale Contrada. Loving Mother of John Contrada, Steven Contrada and Robert Contrada and his wife Lucy. Devoted grand mother of Jonathan, Patrick, Christiana, Isabella, Lauren and Steven. Dear sister of Frank Roberta and Read More…
Leonard “Leo The Lion” Intravesato of Boston’s North End on April 11, 2016. Beloved son of the late Leonard and Lillian (Paladino) Intravesato. Loving father of Darlene West and her husband Steven of Portsmouth, RI, Leonard “Lenny” J. Intravesato of Norwood, and Cheryl Spencer and her husband Dan of Bellingham. Cherished grandfather of Courtney, Dan Read More…
Atonietta N. (Colarusso) DeStefano of Stoneham passed away peacefully in her home on Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 93 years of age. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, and friend and will be missed by all who knew her. Antonietta was an accomplished business woman. She was the founder/owner of Café Paradiso Read More…
John Sullivan of Prince Postale shares this special remembrance of Prince the Cat. (Note: A memorial service will be held for Prince on March 29th, 6:00 p.m. at Old North Church, 193 Salem Street.) On March 22nd, I received a call by one of Prince’s friends on Greenough Lane that he was sick and to come quickly. Read More…
On March 16, 2016 our community lost a loyal and true North Ender who passed away far from the neighborhood she once called home, but not distant from the hearts of her friends left behind. Five years had elapsed since Fredda and her husband Bill Lee relocated to Florida at the conclusion of a defamation Read More…
Prince Sullivan, 6, of Boston’s North End passed away on March 22. Prince was the resident cat at Prince Postale on Prince Street. Prince was born in Somerville, (2009) MA and adopted by John, his care giver, at three months old. When Prince was 2 and half years old, he began to discover the streets, fire Read More…
Nicole Rafter (Nicky), an internationally-known and much-honored writer and scholar in the fields of social history and criminology, the author of more than a dozen books (most recently The Crime of All Crimes, Toward a Criminology of Genocide), and a long-time professor at Northeastern University, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly, on February 29, 2016, at Read More…
Burns, Thomas David (April 4, 1921 – February 27, 2016), trial lawyer and co-founding partner of the Boston law firm Burns & Levinson LLP passed away due to cancer. The son of Joseph Lawrence and Catherine Horne Burns, he was born in 1921 in Andover, MA. An avid skier, golfer and traveler, his two passions Read More…