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1923
DIED
2021
Ernest GOGGIO Obituary
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Memories and Condolences
for Ernest GOGGIO
5 Entries
Amelia Antonucci, past president and Board member of The Leonardo da Vinci
July 10, 2021
I have just learned about Ernest departure and i am very sorry. I wish to extend to all his family our deepest condolences. Ernest and Connie were outstanding members of The Leonardo da Vinci Society and we had the honor and the pleasure to have them at so many parties, galas and cultural programs over the years. He will be missed dearly.
Salvatore Bancheri
February 23, 2021
There are no words to convey my sympathies to the Goggio family. I hope nonetheless that you can take some solace in knowing that Ernie is in my heart and prayers, as well as in the hearts and prayers of the many friends you have at the University.
As former Emilio Goggio Chair in the Italian Department at the University of Toronto, I have met Ernie a few times.
I would like to share three memories in particular:
1) May 2014: during one of his visits, I arrange a meeting with Professors Julius Molinaro, Maddalena Kuitunen and Frank Iacobucci. This meeting was very much appreciated because he knew the professors and his father's colleagues when he was in Toronto.
2) I invited him in Toronto on the occasion of a honorary degree conferred to Roberto Benigni and his wife Nicoletta Braschi. I was a friendship at first sight and I was told he visited Benigni in Rome.
3) On the occasion of his 90th birthday, we send him a video congtatulating him. We also mailed him a picture a facsimile copy of the February 24, 1923 of the Globe and Mail, one of Canada leading newspapers. We also send him an original painting of Toronto Island, a place that he visited regularly (as he mentioned you us afterwards).
Rest in peace, Ernie.
Love you for everything you have done for my Department of for me.
Salvatore Bancheri
Melanie Woodin
February 23, 2021
I was saddened to learn of the passing of Ernest Goggio. On behalf of the students, alumni, and faculty at the Faculty of Arts & Science, I would like to extend our deepest sympathies to the Goggio family. We will always be grateful for their philanthropic vision in establishing the Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies. This generosity will continue to benefit generations of students in perpetuity.
-Melanie Woodin, Dean, Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto
Tina Vindum and John Philip Coghlan
February 17, 2021
It would be difficult to have a better or kinder friend—or in this case, friend and next-door neighbor—than Ernie. Many a delightful glass of Italian wine and hors d’oeuvres in the afternoon, discussing the events of the week or Ernie’s lifetime of travel and adventure. But then—Ernie taking on the Chef’s duties and preparing his remarkable bollito misto for a rapt audience that included Tina and me, and Italian Consul General Lorenzo Ortona and his wonderful wife Sheila. Ernie was adored by all. He was also shown such devotion and love by his house manager, Anna Lopez, and her gracious and superb son, Gary. We will all miss it all! Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
Dean Rogers
February 16, 2021
On behalf of Brian , Carol, Dean Rogers and families were sadden to read of our Dad's long time friend Ernie. Our parents loved being with Ernie and Connie. Our Dad and his brother Ian knew Ernie for decades from their chdhoods on Glengowan Av in Toronto. Sympathy to the family
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