Constantino Dominic Lucanera, of Hillburn, NY, passed away on October 28, 2020 of natural causes.
Luke, as he was known to all, (except for his parents who called him Tino), was born on August 13,
1925 to Peter & Frances Lucanera in Scranton, PA. After graduating from White Plains High School in
1944, he signed up for service with the U.S. Army/Air Force. He was trained to be a radar mechanic
and sent to the University of Wisconsin, Clarkson University and NYU where he received a Bachelor of
Science & an Electrical Engineering degree. He spent 12 months overseas in Nagoya, Japan, part of
the 438 th Bombardment Squadron, flying missions and working on the airfield base.
After the war, Luke returned to White Plains, NY, where his parents lived, met Viola M. Barbarossa and
started employment with ITT Corporation. They married in 1950, and then he transferred to ITT
Avionics in Nutley, NJ, moving to the small town of Blauvelt in Rockland County, NY with the first two
children.
Adding 3 more kids to the family, and a succession of family pets, Luke produced several patents for
various designs for antennae as a defense contractor in the aerospace industry.
He dabbled in sports, playing on the local Blauvelt baseball team, bowling for decades and learning to
ski sometime in his middle-age, but then golf took over for the next few decades. Around 1989 Luke
retired from ITT and added travel & more golf, while his family continued to expand, taking every
opportunity to be at all the family events.
He is predeceased by his brothers Dominic and Marshall Lucanera, his sister, Helen Sarsfield, and
former wife, Viola M. Lucanera. Beloved father of Barbara Pierce, John Lucanera & daughter-in-law,
Lauren, Christine Rybka & son-in-law, Leonard, Valerie Lucanera, Vincent Lucanera and grandchildren
Beau Lucanera, John Paul Lucanera, Alicia Pierce, Alex Pierce and VinTino Lucanera as well as
several nieces and nephews.
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