Peter Mazzeo

Peter Francis Mazzeo, age 84, of Clinton, CT passed away on October 4,2021 at Middlesex Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. Peter was born on June 6,1937 in Hartford, CT to Jean Abatte and Peter Edward Mazzeo, of Wethersfield, later settling in Madison, CT. Peter attended Hand High School in Madison and graduated in 1957. Peter then worked as a mechanic and lumber salesman. In his retirement years, he worked as a landscaper. He had a tool for everything and a talent for fixing anything.

He was a Veteran, having served in U.S. Navy Reserves as a Radio Man retiring as a RM1 (Radio Man 1st Class). He was also a volunteer member of Clinton’s U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla #24-8. He was a fifty-year member of both Madison Lodge # 87 AF&AM and Olive Branch, Chapter # 87 OES. As well as a member of the BPOE Westbrook Elks Lodge #1784. He enjoyed the outdoors, the water, and two-way radios, and he spent his winters in Florida where he had family and friends in Port St. Lucie.

A longtime resident of Clinton, Peter raised a family with his former wife, Mary Ann. They had three children: Christopher Peter, Edward John, and Virginia Susan.

Peter is survived by his beloved partner of thirty years, Rita Williams of Westbrook, CT, his sons, Christopher Mazzeo of Clinton CT, Edward Mazzeo and his wife Laura of Mattituck, NY, his sister Betty Matarese of Unionville, CT and his brother Lewis Mazzeo of Clinton, CT. Also, his grandchildren Jessica Nicole Mazzeo and Brianna Jean Cameron of Mattituck, NY, his nieces Linda Fasciano of Collinsville, CT, Nicole Fillion of Fort Pierce, FL, Elizabeth Mazzeo of Clinton, CT, and dear friend Ralph Williams of Westbrook, CT. He was predeceased by his sister Teresa Urso, his daughter Virginia Mazzeo and his granddaughter Emily Mazzeo-Maier.

Memorial services and visitation will be held on Saturday

October 23,2021 from 11:30am to 1:30pm at the Swan Funeral Home in Clinton, CT, followed by 2:00pm interment with Military Honors at Indian River Cemetery in Clinton.

In lieu of flowers or other memorial donations, Peter would be grateful for donations in the name of his late granddaughter, Emily, to the charity that helped her and the Mazzeo family so much during her battle with childhood cancer: The Tomorrow Fund - 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI 02903, in memory of Emily Mazzeo-Maier.