Here we are once again, with thanks on our mind, and we have plenty to be thankful for. Having grown up or lived in the Roseland-Kensington-Pullman neighborhoods, many of us have certainly had occasion to pay our last respects at the Panozzo Brothers Funeral Home. The business began on 115th Street and moved further east to Calumet Avenue until they eventually left Roseland for Chicago Heights. Throughout the years, our ability to have a steadfast reliance on Panozzo’s in their time of need was always reassuring.
I recall as a child having to accompany my parents whenever a close friend of theirs or one of our relatives passed away. The only funeral home we ever went to was Panozzo Brothers. I was a teenager before I realized that there were other funeral homes available to us. Of course, being a parishioner of St. Anthony’s on Kensington guaranteed that my childhood had boundaries set by family traditions.
