PAOLO COSTANZO

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PAOLO COSTANZO

It is with deepest sorrow that we, the family of Paolo Costanzo, announce his unexpected passing on December 10, 2020. He was 83 years old.
On April 2, 1937, our father was born in Ali, Messina, Sicily, Italy to his father Salvatore Costanzo and mother Maria D'Ali (both predeceased). He was the youngest of four siblings, Nino, Antonia and Carmelo.
In 1962, after spending time in the army, he left Italy to join his brothers, Nino and Carmelo and arrived in Canada in search of opportunity and a new life. Our mother joined him in 1963 and there began our family in Winnipeg.
Our father was predeceased by his wife Paola; his sister Antonia; his brothers, Nino, Carmelo; brothers-in-law, Alessio Riggio, Stefano Brancato, William Sokolewsky; sister-in-law Angela Brancato; niece Maria Riggio and great-niece Francesca Lao.
He is survived by his children, Maria, Agata, Caterina, Salvatore, Giusepina; grandchildren, Kaylahna and Connar Fialka; Randy and Micheal Zabinski; sisters-in-law, Cecilia Costanzo, Paolina Costanzo, Maria Sokolewsky and Concetta Brancato; brothers-in-law, Tony and Carmelo Brancato; nieces, Carmela (Corrado) Lao and Maria Costanzo; nephews, Francesco, Nicola and Roberto Riggio, Salvatore J. Costanzo, Salvatore Costanzo, Robert, Christopher, Gregory and Edward Sokolewsky and great-nephew Corrado Lao.
Services will be held at Cropo Funeral Chapel, 1442 Main Street on Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. Entombment will follow at Waverly Memorial Gardens, 1501 Waverly Street at 12:00 p.m.
Services will be livestreamed and available online via the Cropo website.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association of Canada.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Dec 19, 2020