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John Paul Copello 1916 - 2011

John Paul Copello of Chelsea, Suffolk County, MA was born on July 7, 1916 in Chelsea. He was married to Clarice Copello in 1945, and had children John Paul Copello Jr and Patricia Muse. John Copello died at age 94 years old on May 5, 2011 in Barnstable, Barnstable County, and was buried at Massachusetts National Cemetery Connery Ave, in Bourne.

John Paul Copello

Chelsea, Suffolk County, MA 02150

July 7, 1916

Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 02150, United States

May 5, 2011

Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States

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1916

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July 7, 1916

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Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts 02150, United States

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Ethnicity & Family History

John Paul Copello was born on July 7, 1916 to parents Joseph H Copello and Annie Therese O'Connor. He had siblings Rose, Arthur, Helen, Florena, Sarah, Francis, Margaret, and Ellen. His mother Annie was born on March 18, 1888 in Skibbereen, Cork, Ireland. She moved to the US sometime before 1902 when the birth of their first child Rose. The family resided in Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. She passed away in March of 1972 in Malden, Massachusetts, USA. His father Joseph was born on June 3, 1875 in East Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He worked in the Lithograph industry in Suffolk, Massachusetts. He passed away on September 10, 1951 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA.
Nationality & Locations

John was born and raised in Chelsea, Massachusetts.
Military Service

John P. Copello enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private on February 20, 1941, in Boston, Massachusetts. At the time of his enlistment, he was a single man without dependents, residing in Suffolk, Massachusetts. John had completed three years of high school education and was a U.S. citizen. He was assigned to the "Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA" category, which means he was not initially assigned to a specific branch. He was part of the Selectees (Enlisted Men) component, indicating that he was drafted from civilian life. His service number was 31017045 and he stood at 67 inches tall and weighed 131 pounds. He attained the rank of SSGT within the Us Army Air Forces and was a veteran of World War II.
Professional Career

In the 1950's John worked as a plate maker at a Lithograph Plant in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.
Personal Life & Family

John and Clarice were parents to Patricia (Copello) Muse, John Paul Copello Jr, Paula Macdonald, Jonnie Ely, Helen Fahey, Anna Breen, and Cathy.
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2011

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May 5, 2011

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Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts United States
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Massachusetts National Cemetery Connery Ave, in Bourne, Barnstable County, Massachusetts 02542, United States
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John Paul Copello lived 19 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 94.

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In 1916, in the year that John Paul Copello was born, visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

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In 1921, John was just 5 years old when hugely popular Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, silent film star, was arrested for rape and manslaughter after an actress died following a party at his house. He was acquitted after three trials and the jury wrote a formal letter apologizing for the charges, but his career never recovered. His films were at first banned - the ban was lifted after a year - and he was mostly ostracized by the community. He died at 46..

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