STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Thomas E. Ogrosso Sr., 88, of New Dorp, a retired ice cream maker and loving family man, died Saturday in Clove Lakes Health Care and Rehabilitation Center, in Castleton Corners.
Born in Brooklyn, he was brought to Staten Island as a boy and graduated from McKee High School.
He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and saw duty in the Pacific campaign. He was a member of the Kells-Grennie Post, American Legion, Oakwood.
Mr. Ogrosso worked as an ice cream maker for Haagen-Dazs for many years. He retired in the 1980s.
He was a member of the New Dorp Friendship Club and also enjoyed going to McKee alumni luncheons.
Mr. Ogrosso enjoyed breeding and flying racing homing pigeons with his son, Nicholas.
He attended Our Lady Queen of Peace R.C. Church, New Dorp.
Mr. Ogrosso's wife of 59 years, the former Elsie DiSerafino, died in 2009.
Surviving, along with his son, Nicholas, are his son, Thomas; his daughters, Donna Marie Peterman and Nancy Ann DesLonde; a sister, Alice Lodzinski, and two grandchildren.
The funeral will be Wednesday from the Casey Funeral Home, Castleton Corners, with a mass at 10:30 a.m. in Our Lady Queen of Peace Church. Burial will follow in Ocean View Cemetery, Oakwood.
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