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Pam Lagomarsino Delnevo
January 4, 2025
Toni, Frank and Johnny, I just read Lefty's Boys and am overcome with memories of your family, especially Frank, Helen and Toni. I hope you're all doing well and I wish I would have known when your parents passed away so I could have reached out then. Now mine are both gone as well . . . thank you for a wonderful book that ignited wonderful memories! Pam
Toni Papia
November 5, 2023
Thirteen years have passed since you´ve been gone. The pain has lessened but I still think about you every day! I miss you still dad! I love you forever!
Toni Papia
November 10, 2020
Dad, it's been 10 years since you went to be with mom. I miss you so much. I look out my window every morning and say "good morning mom and dad" and then I thank you for the opportunity to be where I am now. I know you are so proud of your children, all of your grandchildren and all of your great grandchildren. I wish you got to meet Russell and Allie. I know you would love them so much. Allie is a girly girl and well, Russell is a typical "boy". I think about you and mom every day and you both will forever be in my heart. I miss you dad and I love you!
November 17, 2010
Dear Papa,
I have so many fond memoris of you. The funny jokes, like look at the dead birds fly! and the catching of the flies. I remember you coming and watching alexis play softball. I know you are very proud of her and Kaitlyn. There are so many people I want you to say hi and give hugs to. I know you know who they are. You may be gone but never forgotten.
I Love You, your first grandaughter
Jennifer
Amber E
November 17, 2010
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal........ We all know that you are with Noni after all your years of apart ,just as youthful as you were when you first met and just as much in love as if you were never apart. You will be missed greatly and will always be in our hearts.
Your grandaughter,
Amber
Amber E
November 17, 2010
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal....... I know you are with noni after all these years of waiting, Just as youthful as when you first met and just as much in love as if you were never apart.
Love you papa, you will be missed, you and Noni will always be in our hearts :)
Your grandaughter,
Amber
Paul Lagomarsino
November 16, 2010
What a guy ! I always enjoyed being around him as a child and loved to see him interact with my own kids. He will definitely be missed, but never forgotten. My condolences to the entire Papia family.
Linda van Ekelenburg
November 16, 2010
Tom Brokaw called our parents' generation "The Greatest Generation." Without the accumulated knowledge of the last over half a century, without the technological advances in all fields, with a population the average formal educational level of which was much lower than it is now, these modest, industrious, selfless people carried this country on their shoulders through two world wars and a world-wide decade-long depression. Then they took on the monumental tasks of building cities, highways, bridges, and space ships. They were the vanguard of the civil rights movements, the proliferation of mass media, enabling the vigorous dissemination of ideas, and the workers of medical miracles. And, on top of that, all the while they were raising families, taking care of spouses and us, their all-too-often cluelessly un- or under-appreciative , snot-nosed, know-it-all, parasites. They often worked boring, unfulfilling, unrenumerative jobs (such as the moms who were unpaid as domestic quarterbacks). We knew too much for our own good, and often dismissed the old folks (remember, 30s and 40s was OLD) as pathetically out of the loop, dinosaurs who had never experienced what we were going through, fossils who had no idea of what real fun was, dictators who made us clean our rooms and do our homework, yet stoically loved us in spite of ourselves when we had run-ins with the authorities or spiritus fermenti.
Now that we know how difficult it is to be parents, how stressful, expensive, worrisome, frightening, infuriating, and labor-intensive it is, and now that we have experienced occasional disrespect or ingratitude, essentially our karmic hens coming home to roost, we feel the depth of the love our departed parents felt for us. We can see their perseverance in caring for us as heroic. Yes, because he was a devoted family man, Lefty was a hero.
Heather Leverett
November 15, 2010
I never had the joy of meeting you but feel like I knew you through Toni. I know you are happy with reuniting with your wife. I will keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers. You will be missed but will live on the hearts of your family.
Rick Wagner
November 14, 2010
Toni,Frank Jr., and John, On behalf of my brother and sister and myself we will remember your dad well. He was always a sweet man to us and we will remember him kindly. May you and your families be comforted by the many memories he left with you.
I personally will keep this great guy in my thoughts.
Sincerely yours
November 14, 2010
Frank, I never had the pleasure of meeting you in person, but I feel like I knew you through your wonderful daughter. You will be missed forever.
Joyce Martin
November 14, 2010
I wish I could have met you, and I feel in part that I have met you through your daughter Toni. Your legacy will live on through your children, grand-children and your great-grandchildren.
karen wise
November 14, 2010
You must have been a great man to raise such a compassionate and strong daughter. You will be missed but your legacy lives on in your loving family.
Toni Papia
November 13, 2010
I am so emotionally paralyzed right now. I miss you dad but I know that you are with mom now and you will never be separated from each other ever again. I still have a very hard time remembering that you are gone. I love you dad.
November 11, 2010
I will miss you Grandpa! You will always be remembered and you will always be in our heart!!!!!
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