Leo G Piro (1909 - 1970)

Born 7 Mar 1909 in Illinois, United States

Husband of Ruby Marie (Berryman) Piro — married 23 Jan 1934 in Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois, United States

Descendants

Died 1 Oct 1970 at age 61 in Tazewell, Illinois, United States

Biography

Parents: Giacanro and Cosmo Piro, both born in Italy

Wife: Ruby

Leo Piro, 61, of 1426 Fisher street Pekin, died at 2:28 p.m. Thursday in Pekin Memorial hospital, where he had been a patient two days.

Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Kuecks Funeral Home. Rev. Charles Everly, pastor of the Zion Baptist church, will officiate. Burial will be in Lakeside cemetery.

Friends may call from 3 until 5 and 7 until 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mr. Piro was born Mar. 7, 1909, at Pekin, the son of Giacomo and Cosma Sansone Piro. He was married to Ruby M. Berryman on Jan. 23, 1934 at Pekin.

Surviving, besides his wife , are one son, Gerald L. Piro of Pekin; one brother, Tony Piro of Pekin; four sisters, Mrs. Clara Leathers, Mrs. August Meskimen and Mrs. Harold Hill, all of Pekin, and Mrs. Jennie Bluejacket of Gray Bull, Wyo.; and eight grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two brothers and one sister.

Mr. Piro was formerly employed by Piro's Pool Hall, Pekin.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKXY-FB4 : accessed 4 September 2019), Leo Piro in household of Giacanro Piro, Pekin Ward 2, Tazewell, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 145, sheet 2A, family 39, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 328; FHL microfilm 1,374,341.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWZT-J5W : 28 July 2019), Leo Piro, Ward 5, Pekin, Pekin Township, Tazewell, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 90-41, sheet 3B, line 73, family , Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 895.
• "Illinois, Tazewell County, Obituary Card Index from the "Pekin Times", 1914-2007," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KXWL-26W : 3 December 2014), Leo Piro, 1970; citing ObituaryPekin, Tazewell, Illinois, United States, Pekin Public Library, Illinois.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVGZ-T9TQ : 13 December 2015), Leo Piro, 1970; Burial, Pekin, Tazewell, Illinois, United States of America, Lakeside Cemetery; citing record ID 115015679, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
• Obituary: http://www.illinoisancestors.org/tazewell/Obituaries-p.htm