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 Joseph Andrew Nigrelli
November 18, 2006
Joseph Andrew Nigrelli, 87, of 760 Dalton Division Road, a former 50-year resident of 14 Marcella Ave., died yesterday at Berkshire Medical Center.
Born in Pittsfield on Oct. 3, 1919, son of Samuel and Josephine Spadoro Nigrelli, he was a 1938 graduate of Pittsfield High School.
An Air Force veteran of World War II, he served 18 months in Europe with the Transport Command.
Mr. Nigrelli was employed by General Electric Co. for 38 years, retiring in 1981 from the ordnance department as a missile machinist. From 1958 to 1998, he volunteered as a ticket-taker at Tanglewood in Lenox.
He was a communicant of Mount Carmel Church and a founder of the Berkshire Museum Coin Club, where he was also a past president.
He was a member and past president of the Berkshire Stamp Club, a member of the Berkshire County Deputy Sheriff's Association and Italian-American War Veterans' Post 75, and a member and past councilor of the United Commercial Travelers. A master gardener, he was a longtime volunteer and coordinator of the Massachusetts Audubon Canoe Meadows Community Gardens.
He and his wife, the former Rose A. Trova, were married Sept. 3, 1949, at Mount Carmel Church.
Besides his wife, he leaves a son, David Nigrelli of Mechanicsville, Va., and three grandchildren.
FUNERAL NOTICE -- The funeral for Joseph A. Nigrelli, who died Saturday, Nov. 18, 2006, will be Wednesday at 9:15 from DERY FUNERAL HOME, 54 Bradford St., Pittsfield, with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 at Mount Carmel Church celebrated by the Rev. Geoffrey S. Deeker, CSS, pastor.
Burial will follow in the family plot at St. Joseph's Cemetery. Calling hours at the funeral home will be Tuesday from 4 to 6. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial donations be made to Hanover Association for Retarded Citizens, P.O. Box 91, Ashland, VA 23005, or in care of the funeral home.
Mr. Nigrelli also leaves his three loving grandchildren, Thomas, Matthew and Angela Nigrelli; his daughter-in-law, Marti Magner Nigrelli; and a dear friend, David Burdick.
He was predeceased by two brothers, James and Patrick Nigrelli, and by five sisters, Josephine and Jane Nigrelli, Pauline Radke, Isabelle Battend and Mary Rollin.
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