- STOCKTON, Calif. - Nataline A. "Nat" Piscitelli of Stockton passed away Monday (Feb. 27, 2012) at Garden Oaks in Stockton after a short illness.
Born Dec. 25, 1919, in Lewis Run, Pa., he was the ninth child of the late Humbert and Anna Carrara Piscitelli. On Aug. 21, 1944, in Louisville, Ky., he married Frances Burgy, who passed away on Jan. 28, 2008.
Nat was a 1939 graduate of St. Bernard High School. He worked at Tuna Manufacturing before enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1942, where he became a staff sergeant serving as a tank commander with the 2nd Armored Division. He was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge and was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star.
In 1951, he moved his family to California, where he became a mill cabinet instructor at Duell Vocational Institute in Tracy and a master carpenter at his trade.
He is survived by four children; nine grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; two brothers, James Piscitelli of Bradford, Pa., and Clem Piscitelli of Langhorne, Pa.; and three sisters, Virginia Sylvester and Louise Stoltz, both of Bradford, and Vera Sinibaldi of St. Marys, Pa.
In addition to his wife and parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Frank Piscitelli and Steve Piscitelli; and three sisters, Fannie Ross, Vincie Costanzo and Tonet Caputo.
A celebration of Nat's life was held Saturday at St. Catherine's Chapel in Stockton.
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