Alphonso P. Capitano
Alphonso P. Capitano was born nearly107 years ago on November 17th, 1912 in Tampa, Florida to his Father Pietro Capitano and Mother, Maria Parrina...
** Interesting events that occurred around the World during Mr. Capitanos birth year of 1912 included...
• On January 1st, 1912 the Republic of China is established...
• On March 6th, 1912 Oreo cookies are first introduced in the United States...
• On April 10th, 1912 the White Star liner RMS Titanic departs from Southampton, England with more than 2,200 passengers and crew on her maiden voyage, bound for New York.... On April 11th she makes her last call at Queenstown in Ireland... On April 14th and 15th, the RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Northern Atlantic Ocean and sinks with the loss of between 1,517 and 1,636 lives... On April 18th, the RMS Carpathia arrives in New York with the 710 Titanic survivors...
• On May 30th, 1912 pioneer aviator Wilbur Wright ( Of the Wright brothers) dies of typhoid fever in Dayton, Ohio...
• On July 1st, 1912 Harriet Quimby, who set the record as the first Woman to fly the English Channel only two months before dies in Squantum, Massachusetts after her brand-new two-seat Bleriot monoplane crashes, killing both Quimby and her passenger...
• On November 8th, 1912 New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson defeats former President Theodore Roosevelt, and incumbent President William Howard Taft to become the 20th U.S. President..
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Alphonso's parents were both born in Santo Stefano Quisquina Agrigento, Italy and immigrate to the United States just a few years prior to his birth...
( This evenings honoree also appears as "Alfonso" in different records )...
Mr. Capitano the Son of immigrants is the first in his family to have been born in America... He had four younger Sisters and one Brother born between 1913 and 1924... ( Rosalia, Angelina, Carmelina, Samuel, and Rosina )
Capitano Patriarch Pietro supports his family in the field of farming...
Alphonso would complete a single year of high school before entering the workforce... Numerous records indicate that he works in the restaurant industry for many years both in the kitchen and as a waiter...
On June 23rd, 1942 Mr. Capitano at the age of 29 enlists with the United States Army to serve his Country in the midst of the Second World War... He and his Brother Sam are sent to Fort Blanding in Florida...
The fort / camp was used by the United States Army as an active duty training center...The post was originally used by New England and Southern troops preparing for deployment overseas...
Both Alphonso and Sam would serve for the duration of the war...
Little is known of Allphonso and his life after the war concludes even though his obituary indicates that he was a lifelong resident of Tampa, Florida....There are no marriage records, post war city directory notations, nor any reference to him having had children ...
Alphonso's Sister Rosalina would pass away in her home at just 42 years old on June 1st, 1957... At the time she was a married Mother of four...
His Father Pietro passes away on October 7th 1965 in Tampa, Florida, at the age of 80...
His Mother Maria loses her life 2.5 years later on March 14th, 1968, in Tampa, Florida... She was 84...
Alphonso P. Capitano.... Beloved Son, Brother and proud United States Army Veteran of the Second World War...