90th birthday for Carl Vandetta

90^th birthday for Carl Vandetta

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·         Carl Vandetta, Class of 1948, will celebrate his 90^th birthday on Tuesday, August 18. Carl married Martha Robinson Vandetta, Class of 1952, from Worthington.

Carl’s parents were Felix and Agnes Vandetta.

Carl’s siblings were Shirley Vandetta DeMoss, who married legendary Monongah High baseball pitcher Frank DeMoss who led  the Lions to their only state baseball title in 1955; Jim Vandetta; and Betty Vandetta Dempsey.

I went to Monongah High with Carl and passed his family home many times on my way to my Uncle Frank Loss and Aunt Gezala Futten Loss’ home in Mill Fall. After leaving Pike Extension and the Vandetta home I crossed 2 bridges to get to the 100-acre Loss farm.

Gezala left Italy for America, stepping off onto Ellis Island in 1920 with her mother, Maria Fedrigon Futten, and my mother, Lena Futten Olesky, and their brother, long-time late Fairmont barber Si Futten.

Their father waiting for them in America was Severino Futten.