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From: Janet Waite <>
Subject: Anna Ciccarelli Marks 99 years
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 09:16:19 -0400

~~~ Source: The Review, Thursday, Sept. 24, 1998~~
Lifestyle section Artis Calhoun Lifestyle Editor

CHESTER -- An area woman reached the age of 99 in August and "insists that
hard work and living the way God meant you to is the way to reach that
age," according to her granddaughter, Sharon LaNeve of East Liverpool.

Anna Ciccarelli was born Aug. 24, 1899, in Wildesbarre, Pa., and from 1917
to 1965, she and her husband, ldebrando Ciccarelli, ownd and operated
Ciccarelli's Grocery Store on Carolina Avenue in Chester. The couple was
married 65 years before he died.

She remembers delivering groceries in a horse and buggy. She also
remembers, as a young girl working at Planters Peanuts making 50 cents per
week.

She is proud of their five sons. The oldest, John Ciccarelli, a science
teacher many years who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor in the U.S.
Army during World War II, is deceased.

Angelo Ciccarelli of Chester also served in the U.S. Army during World War
II. Harold Ciccarelli of Bridgeville, Pa., is an anaesthesiologist. Dr.
Carl Ciccarelli of Chester is a podiatrist. And Virgil Ciccarelli of Los
Angeles, Calif., is a medical doctor.

She also is proud of her 13 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and eight
great-great-grandchildren.

LaNeve said her grandmother admits people face many problems but none
compare to the predicament of her 4-year old great-great-grandson, Andrew
LaNeve, who was born with the rare Vaters Syndrome and is on the waiting
list for a kidney transplant. And the child is high on the prayer list of
his family.

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