MENOLASCINO, Michaelangelo "Mike Menola" 1897-1948

MENOLASCINO, TOSSELLI

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 4/1/2015 at 20:47:07

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Sunday, February 15, 1948, Waterloo, Iowa]

Mike Minola* (Michelangelo Menolascino), 51, a Waterloo resident since 1914 and an employe of the Illinois Central shops 32 years, succumbed at noon yesterday to a heart ailment in the Illinois Central Hospital, Chicago. The body will arrive by rail today and will be taken to O'Keefe & Towne Funeral Home.

Mr. Menolascino, who was known by the name Minola at the Illinois
Central shops, was born in Carbonara Di Bari, Italy and came to the United States as a nine-year-old boy.

For a number of years he had supported his mother and three sisters in Italy, who survive with a brother, Alto, of Los Angeles, and an aunt, Ann Tosselli, who also resides in California.

Mr. Menolascino resided in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Striegel, 430 Dane Street.

During his last illness, which caused his retirement in 1946, he was cared for by Mr. and Mrs. Phil Tenerelli, 409 Logan Avenue.

Mr. Tenerelli also is a native of Carbonara Di Bari.

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*Minola spelled Menola on his gravestone.
Gravestone at Calvary Cemetery, Waterloo inscribed:
Michelangelo Menolascino (Mike Menola)
Born in Carbonara di Bari
1897 - Italy World War I Veteran - 1948