SCHENECTADY – Albino Del Vecchio, 82, entered into eternal rest on Wednesday at Ellis Hospital, after a recent illness.
Albino was born and educated in Caiazzo, CE, Italy on August 22, 1930, one of nine children of the late Francesco and Maria Antonia Cammarota Del Vecchio. He served in the Italian Military and worked as a dairy farmer. He made the courageous decision to leave Italy with his wife and children, and immigrated to America on a 7 day boat trip across the Atlantic on May 3, 1973, then settling in Schenectady. He was trained and worked at Glenville Gage Co., as a machinist, working for many years until their closure. He continued the same career with Ren-Tools, Mfg in Schenectady, retiring in 1991.Albino was a devoted family man, he loved to garden and always shared the fruits of his labor with his family and friends. He was a life long communicant of St. Anthony's Parish.
Albino was predeceased by six siblings all in Italy.
Survivors include the love of his life, his beloved wife Maria Mastroianni Del Vecchio; devoted children, Frank Del Vecchio and his wife Deborah, of Guilderland and Maria Cammarota and her husband Pietro, of Rotterdam; adoring grandchildren, Nicole and Ryan Del Vecchio and Marco Cammarota; his loving sisters, Margherita Mastroianni and her husband Ferdinando, of Niskayuna and Esterina Cordeschi and her husband Francesco, of Rome Italy also many dear nieces and nephews.
Services will be held on Monday morning at 11 am from the Rossi & Ditoro Funeral Home, Union at N. Jay Street, then to St. Anthony's Church, Seward Place, where a Mass will be celebrated at 12 noon. Entombment will follow in St. Anthony's Cemetery, Glenville.
Relatives and friends are invited and may call at the Rossi & Ditoro Funeral Home, Monday morning from 9 to 11 am.