Nicholas Preziose (1915 - 1997)

Born to Michael and Lucia Preziose on April 26th in Burlington MA. He was the first of six children. Michael, Clorinda, Anita, Alexander, and Louis. His parents immigrated from Italy without that knowledge of the English language nor the ability to read or write in their own native tongue.

His childhood was not a happy one. His father was a very expressively emotional man. His mother quietly domineering and detached. Like his parents he had brown hair and bright blue eyes. He stood 5 foot 6 in tall with a strong muscular body which was maintained over the years primarily by playing handball at the YMCA. For whatever reasons, he patterned himself after his mother and would not allow himself to ever get close to anyone.

Except for the first year of his life, he never moved from Brooklyn. He completed three of four years of high school when he decided not to proceed with a formal education and went to work for a jeweler as an apprentice. He remained in that field till his retirement in 1989. He never left the security of the two firms he worked for over a 55 year period. Taking chances was not something he did very often.

He was drafted into the army at the close of the war and never went overseas.

He had two children, Carol and Michael. After 21 years of marriage she was divorced by Marion. Three years later he remarried to Anne Masse. Anne was a quiet unassuming woman who catered to Nick's every whim. She was a loving grandmother to her step daughters children and died after 19 years of marriage. Four years later he married Mary Tuttle. A domineering manipulative woman who provided him with the challenge in life that he sought.