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- Niagara Gazette
The.body of 24year-old Pfc. Sal-
Vatore T Tirabassi is expected to
arrive here at 9:20 a.m. tomorrow;
accompanied by an army corporal.
Funeral services for the GI, who
met death when an army .truck qverturned
in Austria one day after his
twenty-fourth birthday, will be held
at 9:30 a.m, Tuesday at the Spallino
Funeral home, followed by a Requiem
Mass at Our Lady of the Ros-
ary church.V Interment will be in
- Gate of Heaven cemetery.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Santo
Tirabassi, 2451 LaSalle avenue, he
died February 3 of possible asphyxiation
due to drowning when the
vehicle in which he was riding skid-
ded on the ice and overturned into
a stream.
In Army Since January, 1951
-. Pfc. Tirabassi, who had been serving
with the 70th U..S. Engineering
battalion in Austria since October 8,
1952, was drafted here on January
17, 1951.
In addition to his parents, he is
survived by his. wife; Mrs. Delbres
Tirabassi (nee, Daunce), 3543 Ferry
avenue, to whom he was wed 2-1/2
years ago at Our Lady of the Rosary
church. The grandson of Salvatore
Tirabassi, this city, he is the brother
of Mrs. William Marshall, Buffalo,
and HM3/c George A. Tirabassi,
Camp Pendleton, Calif.
A military escort at the funeral
will be furnished by Air Defense
group 9518 with the Niagara Falls
Boys' club providing a. bugler. The
body is being brought, to Niagara
Falls aboard a train from New
York City by Cpl. Herbert N. Fogal,
at the direction of Maj. Frank M.
Green, Jr., chief of the American
Graves Registration branch of the
New York Port of Embarkation.
Worked for DuPont
- Prior to entering t h e service P fc
Salvatore was a process worker at
the duPont cyanide. pIant for nine
months. Before that, he had worked
for six years as a machine tender at
the Kimberly-Clark corporation.
A graduate of the Trott Vocational
high school at the age of 18, he was
active in sports there and on in-
dustrial teams. In' both the industrial
and scholastic leagues, he distinguished
himself as a capable football
and softball player.
The family received a. Defense
department telegram two days after
the accident occurred. In it, the military
stated that- every thing possible
had been done in an-attempt at reviving him.
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Abt 1929 - 1953 (~ 24 years)