Anthony L. Contini

Anthony “Junio” Contini, 94, died peacefully on Sunday, February 22, 2026, at Dover Park Village. His parents were Anthony and Rocchina Companara Contini, and he was born in Dover on September 7, 1931.

Tony loved playing sports, and was captain of the football and basketball teams at Saint Joseph’s High School. He caught his wife, Anna’s, eye on the court, and she asked him to go with her to the Leap Year Dance, where the girls asked the boys. While he was proudly serving in the Marine Corps, they married on October 3, 1953.

He never missed watching his children and grandchildren at their sports events. He valued education, and it was important to him that they earn a higher education degree. In 1958, Tony, his father-in-law, Louis Rieger, and Amish craftsmen built their home, and their family lived there for 67 years.

Anthony worked at Joy Manufacturing Company for 33 years, absent only 2 1/2 days during his employment.

He is survived by his wife of 72 years, Anna Rieger Contini; children, Debbie (Ron) Marshall, Steve (Teresa), and Vince (Stefanie); grandchildren, Stefanie (Dylan) Drugan, Emily Contini, Nick (Jenni) Contini, Peyton Contini, and Brinley Contini; and great-grandchild, Felicity Drugan.

Family and friends are invited to call upon the family at the Toland-Herzig Funeral Home in Dover on Thursday, February 26, 2026, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. A funeral service will take place at the funeral home with Father Jimmy Hatfield at 11:00 am on Friday, February 27, 2026. The family will receive guests on Friday from 10:30 until 11:00 am.  Burial will follow at St. Joseph Calvary Cemetery, where the New Philadelphia VFW will conduct military honors. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to the  Greater Dover New Philadelphia Food Pantry, PO Box 95, Dover, Ohio 44622  or St. Joseph’s Church, 613 N. Tuscarawas Ave, Dover, Ohio 44622. To sign an online guestbook for Anthony, visit the obituary link on the funeral home’s website.