by Valerie Zehl

Even as a little kid, Romolo Romeo Mario Alexander De Ritis set his mind on getting his family out of poverty.

That was when World War II raged around his native Fara Filiorum Petri in the Abruzzo region of Italy, a town measuring just over seven square miles. He would never forget the trauma of bombings, of Nazi occupation, of near-starvation. As he grew, he promised his parents and siblings that he would someday, somehow, give them a life of security and prosperity.

And within 12 years, he fulfilled that monumental task, bringing them all to the United States and helping them find their own successes, as he had done in his three Vestal businesses. Before Romolo died on July 23 at age 83, he captured his memories on handwritten pages, painstakingly translated from Italian by son Joe.

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