MARCH 13, 2025
WOW ! JOE I REMEMBER A DRINK WAS SENT TO ME AT CAPONI'S A RESTERAUNT THAT WAS POPULAR BACK IN THE VERY EARY 1980'S. WELL, IT WAS 1981 THAT I GOT THAT DRINK AND THE BAR TENEDER SAID IT WAS FROM HIM. SO, I WENT UP AND ASKED WHO HE WAS AND IT WAS JOE CAMPANA. I SAID TO HIM THAT I HEARD HE WAS A DISTANT COUSIN. WELL, AS TIME PASSED MY GRANFATHER TOM BRUNO IS 1ST COUSINS TO MIKE CAMPANA AND A 4TH COUSIN TO JOE'S GRANDMOTHER MARIA MADAMA CAMPANA. OUR COUSINS IN WARREN, OHIOI TOLD ME THAT. I MET SOME OF THE MADAMA'S AT A BIG PARTY THAT WE CELEBRATED THAT WAS THE BAREA V-CLUBS PUT IT ON. A CLUB STARTED IN 1939 FROM ABRUZZI ITAIALIANS THAT WERE FROM THE NILES, WARREN, YOUNGESTOWN , OHIO AREA. THIS PART WAS AT THE APPLEWOOD GARDENS IN NILES, OHIO OCTOBER 21ST, 1989. P.C. CAMPANNA AND HIS WIFE JENEA WAS THERE AT IT. I MET A TALL GUY NAMED TOM CAMPANNA HE OWNED A PERCH RESTERAUNT IN YOUNGESTOWN, OHIO HE SER VED PERCH DINNERS. ALSO, OUR COUSIN LINDA BRUNO CETRONE HER BROTHER JOHN BRUNO OWNED A RESTERAUNT AND BAR IN YOUNGESTOWN, OHIO. SO, OUR COUSINS, JOE MARTINO, WHO WAS OUR FIRST COUSIN TO MY DAD LOUIE BRUNO CAUSE HIS MOTHER TERESA WAS TERESA COIA AND CIGLIMENTI MARTINO MARRIED HER AND LIVED ON 19TH STREET IN LORAIN, OHIO AND HAD 4 BOYS. SO, JO'ES 3DR KID JANICE WAS MARRIED TO JOE CAMPANNA AND THEN DIVORCED, AND HAD JOEY JR. CAMPANNA. MY AUNT ANNA BRUNO TOLD ME SHE CLEANED MARIA & TOM CAMPANNA'S HOUSE FOR 5O CENTS A DAY FOR A WHILE.
YOU HAVE OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHY !
WE WILL MISS YOU GREATLY !
LISA & DENISE BRUNO & FAMILY