2. | SCALZO, Luigi was born on 9 Feb 1883 in Italy; died on 4 Sep 1965 in Niagara Falls, Niagara County, NY. Notes:
NOTE - SS Index states birth date as Feb 9, 1883 - Obit says 1/15/1884
Niagara Gazette - 9/5/1965
Luigi Scalzo, 81, of 2780
Niagara St.. died Saturday
(Sept. 4, 1965) at Mount St.
Mary's Hospital
a f t e r a
short illness.
Mr. Scalzo
was born in
Italy Jan. 15,
1884 and
came to the
United States
and to Niagara
Falls in
1900. He operated
neigh-
borhood theaters
here for
40 years and
operated a shoe repair shop
in Niagara Street at the
time of his retirement in
1949.
He was a musician and
one of the founders of the
Scalzo Band that played in
Niagara Falls during the
1920s and 1930s.
Mr. Scalzo is survived by
one son, Joseph Scalzo,
Niagara Falls, and seven
daughters, Mrs. Carl (Dorothy)
Guidotti, Mrs. Frank
(Evelyn) Syracusa, Mrs.
Frank (Brandy) Bellavia,
Mrs. Frank (Anetta) Cottet,
Mrs. Jack (Anne) Waldriff,
Mrs. Sam (Loretta) Musolino
and Mrs. Charles (Ruth)
Terrana, all of Niagara
Falls.
Thirty-seven grandchildren
and 16 great-grandchildren
also survive. He was
predeceased by his wife,
Irene Logan Scalzo, in 1935
and a son, Louis Scalzo,
North Tonawanda, in 1963.
Services will be held at
the Magaddino Memorial
Chapel Inc., at 9:45 a.m.
Tuesday and at St. Joseph's
Church at 10:15 a.m. Burial
will be in St. Joseph's
Cemetery.
* Friends may call at the
funeral chapel from 2 to 5
and 7 to 10 p.m. today and
Monday.
Luigi married LOGAN, Irene about 1912. Irene was born about 1897 in New York; died in 1935. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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