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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1955
Page
4
The pageant leads Bristol's 275th celebration with S Morton Giles directing and writing the script. He urges universal participation from all Bristol groups, stressing a representative show reflecting diverse origins and long lasting community memory.
The note asks individuals or groups to offer volunteer service to Mrs Theresa Donovan pageant committee chairman or Mr Guiles director in support of the approaching pageant.
The funeral of James Gambardella 47 of 29 Bourne Street wife Elizabeth Stanzione Gambardella was held from Sansone Funeral Home at 8 15 with a solemn Requiem Mass at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church. Burial services were at St Mary's Cemetery. Gambardella died suddenly Monday night from a heart attack. He was born August 12 1907 in Waterbury Conn and moved here in 1939. He was a wholesale fish dealer and a member of the Rainbow Club. He leaves a widow two brothers Louis and Jack Gambardella of New Haven three sisters Susie Palo Anna Lampo of New Haven and Rose Sommo of Los Angeles.
Rev Thurber discusses his recently published biography And God Caught an Eel. He explains naming the book after a Taunton tale and relays how a sea captain bought Empire State and a Taunton church nicknamed The Old Eel Pot. Ethel F Blaisdell authored the biography.
Mr and Mrs John J Viera of 52 Monroe Avenue announce the engagement of their daughter Ethel Mae to Lt. j g Leroy C Nelson son of Mrs Blanch Nelson and the late Lemar C Nelson of Kingston PA The bride elect a Bristol High School 1952 graduate and Newport Hospital School of Nursing alumna The fiance a Penn State University graduate now stationed in Atlantic City NJ Wedding plans set for September 17.
Police report Gennaro V. DeFelice 20 of 187 State Street struck a parked car on High Street while riding north. His motorcycle scraped the car of Manuel R. Fratus, damaging its left side. DeFelice fell with a scraped right arm.
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