A photo of Agostino Marfisi at about age 5. To his left is his mother Anna Matracia Marfisi and to his right are cousins Providenzia Russo Lamantia (1888-1933) and her daughter Anna Lamantia (1903-1968); Taken at Crescent Park Amusement Park, E. Providence, R.I., summer 1915
Providenzia (Russo) Lamantia was born in 1888, and died at age 45 years old in 1933. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Providenzia (Russo) Lamantia.
Agostino Marfisi of Providence County, Rhode Island United States was born circa 1910. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Agostino Marfisi.
She grew up in Federal Hill until moving to Cranston to live with her sister Maria (Helen) Lamantia Pannozzi in 1939.
Worked at Shepherd's Dept. store in Providence in the 1920's and 30's, and at Banspatch bakery, eventually worked at New England Telephone starting in 1940 until her retirement in April 1968.
Favorite foods - Canoli pastries from Scialo's bakery on Federal hill.
Favorite performers Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante.
Politics: Lifelong Democrat.
Favorite TV shows: Alfred Hitchcock, Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, TV Variety shows, particularly Dean Martin
Favorite Movies: All George M. Cohan movies with James Cagney, Come September with Rock Hudson;
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...