Sam Bonfante (1879-1957)
BONFANTE
Posted By: Arizona Sun
Date: 3/27/2003 at 21:21:01
Sam [Salvatore] Bonfante
Died: 4 October 1957Sam Bonfante, 78, 1009 Second Ave., died Friday at a local hospital after a long illness.
A native of Italy [sic, Mussomeli, Sicily], he had been a Council Bluffs resident 44 years.
He was a retired coach cleaner of the Chicago and North Western Railroad, a member of St. Francis Church, Moose Lodge, and Marconi Society. He was a member of the National Association of Veteran Railway Employees and the Brotherhood of Railway Cormen of America.
Survivors include: widow, Josephine; three sons, Joseph, Charles and Vincent, all of Council Bluffs; four daughters, Mrs. Kenneth Kilgore of Council Bluffs, Mrs. Virginia Phillips of Coronado, Calif., and Mrs. LaVerne Colley of Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Mrs. Kenneth Garbett of Des Moines; and 11 grandchildren.
Beem-Belford Funeral Home is in charge.
Pottawattamie Obituaries maintained by Karyn Techau.
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