Louis Trubiano's long-sought-after retirement project started years ago with his maternal grandfather, Luigi Pica, who came here from Italy in 1914, worked at the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy his whole adult life and was extremely proud of his American citizenship, granted in 1930. "He was very stoic, a solid, hard-working guy," Trubiano said.

Pica was a pipefitter who did a number of other shipyard jobs, became a foreman, retired in 1965 and owned a four-family house in Quincy Point where Trubiano lived for several years as a small boy. He recalls his grandfather as someone who rarely laughed and "always dressed immaculately and had high standards."