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Lucy Ciavattieri
November 22, 2007
Sorry to hear of the death of Antonio. Have been trying to reach someone in the family....Please get in touch with me.
Thinking of you -
Lucy Leone Ciavattieri
Toby Marotta
November 19, 2007
God bless Antonio Marotta.
During the last few years I have begun to explore our Marotta family history. From the invaluable essay that Jimmy Riccio wrote for Mr. Valeriani, a Medford High School history teacher whom both of us had, I know that "Uncle Tony" was named Antonio in honor of the father that my grandfather Joseph left behind in Anzano, Italy, when he emigrated to Boston and then arranged for his mother Louise and several of his brothers and sisters to join him in the U.S.A.
Claire Bohlin, born to grandfather Joseph's daughter Sue, was the first child of the third generation of American Marottas. I arrived a year or two later. My Italian name is Roberto Antonio Marotta. From the start my records required its Anglicized version: Robert Anthony Marotta. Most of the time I went by my nickname, Toby, as I have ever since.
From Antonio I, via the Antonio who became Uncle Tony, to Toby, presumably Antonio IV!
In the last few years I have begun devoting time to rediscovering my/our Italian roots. Even half a century later my memories of early Marotta-family gatherings remain vivid!
Uncle Tony and Aunt Eva were regular visitors to our home at 70 Century Street in West Medford while I and my three younger brothers were growing up. My mother Ruth remained in that house for a few decades after my father Ralph died in the spring of 1960. Then, early in the 1990s, she moved to adjacent Winchester in order to be closer to my brothers David, Ralph, and Jeff and their families.
Back in the 1950s, when our nuclear family was intact and well and living in West Medford, we celebrated most of the traditional holidays with our Italian relatives. Many of these gatherings took place at my grandparent's house on Princeton Road in South Medford. But a lot of them took place at 70 Century Street.
Each of Uncle Tony's younger brothers and sisters would come with their own broods of next-generation Marottas. I can still remember Eva lifting our evenings to holy heights by singing "Oh Holy Night" (while I amateurishly accompanied her on our humble upright piano). Uncle Tony would beam with pleasure and pride. Oh how he loved his beautiful and accomplished Eva. May he rest in peace alongside her.
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