Giuseppe Raimondi (1910 - 1997)

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Brocato — married 3 Feb 1935 in Baltimore, MD

Descendants

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Biography

This biography is a rough draft. It was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import and needs to be edited.

Occupation

Occupation: Owned Several Businesses, Mostly Dry Cleaning Stores

Note

Note: #N37

User ID

User ID: 129B4EF47C634A13AD2774CE4AF3D1206F77

Data Changed

Data Changed:

Date: 12 JUL 1998

Prior to import, this record was last changed 12 JUL 1998.

Sources

• WikiTree profile Raimondi-12 created through the import of Raimondi-Owens Oct 2012.ged on Oct 24, 2012 by Jim Owens. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Jim and others.

Notes

Note N37

Nickname: Joe (US), Pipo (Italy)

He was everyone's favorite even though he let his first wife dominate his life, so much so that he hurt his mother's feelings because he saw her so infrequently. But he was always forgiven.

He also was a natural businessman, in that he was always able to make successful deals even as a child. He set up three successful dry cleaning businesses. The first two he lost to two of his wife's brothers, and the last he gave to his son after his first wife died.

I think he was closest to Paul before he had to leave Baltimore and Manuel after that. When Paul went to work as soda machine vendor so did Joe. Aunt Angie (7/98) told me that Joe also played fast and loose with the money from the soda machines, like Paul.

He seemed to have a generous streak like his brother Paul. The difference was Joe could afford it, and his first wife kept him from overdoing it. After she died, he gave nearly everything to his son, his business, his house and most of his savings, on the grounds that he did not need much to live out his life. But when he remarried, he found that he did need some of it back but his son was not willing to let go of what he had been given.

He was great at entertaining kids. I remember that even as an old man he could make his biceps ripple like Mickey Mouse was running under the skin.