Drowned in Trotter Lake, in Bolton, Ms. Doing what he loved fishing.
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Ashes, spread in Trotter Lake, Bolton, Ms, by his son, little Frankie and daughter Deborah. His memorial marker is at Saint Francis of Assisi in Brookhaven MS.
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Only child of Sam D'Antoni and Mary Theresa Barranco D'antoni.
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The Clarion-Ledger ■ Friday, April 6, 1990
MISSISSIPPI DEATHS
Frank Dantoni Sr., retired postal worker
By Sidney Cearnal Clarion-Ledger Obituary Writer
Frank Sam Dantoni Sr., 62, of 809 N. State St., a retired post office employee, died of drowning Tuesday while fishing on a Hinds County lake.
Services are 2 p.m. today at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home.
Mr. Dantoni, a native of Brookhaven, had lived in Jackson for 35 years. He was a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in west Jackson before retiring in 1988. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War, a member of the Moose Lodge and St Mary's Catholic Church. He was an Avid fisherman.
He was the first person I worked when I went to work for the post office in July 1967," said Barney Taylor, now supervisor of carriers at the Westland Plaza post office.
He carried me out and showed {me how to deliver mail. He was a good carrier — one of the fastest I've ever seen. He could move around {that route," Taylor said. "He was easy to get along with." Mr. Dantoni had gone fishing Tuesday afternoon when he was found floating in the 12-acre lake at Bolton-Brownsville Road and Jim Williams Road shortly before 4p.m. His 16-foot aluminum boat was found overturned in the water.
Hinds County Coroner Robert Martin said Mr. Dantoni probably died between 11 a.m. and noon. "He. had a heart attack which may have {caused him to fall in the water and drown," Martin said, Mr. Dantoni loved to fish, said {Charles "Buddy" Waggoner,) his friend and co-worker of 30 years.Waggoner and Mr. Dantoni had lunch together Monday.
He cooked chili. He was a great cook. He cooked seafood and Italian food- He knew all the old recipes. He had them in his head. He learned them from his mother," he said.
"Everybody called him 'Cuz'. He called everybody 'Cuz' and every¬body started calling him that. I guess he nicknamed himself.
"Cuz was pure Italian' and the most loyal friend I ever had. He was generous to a fault," he said.
The two men often fished together.
"He was just single-minded about it. He would sit there like he was hypnotized — patient whether they were biting or not, Waggoner said.
Survivors include: son, Frank Dantoni Jr. of Jackson; daughters, Deborah Dantoni Romero of Victorville, Calif., and Michelle Dantoni Hicks of Orlando, Fla.; mother, Mary Dantoni of Jackson; and six grandchildren.
Comment: Baptism record at Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Brookhaven, MS.
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Ashes, spread in Trotter Lake, Bolton, Ms, by his son, little Frankie and daughter Deborah. His memorial marker is at Saint Francis of Assisi in Brookhaven MS.
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Only child of Sam D'Antoni and Mary Theresa Barranco D'antoni.
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The Clarion-Ledger ■ Friday, April 6, 1990
MISSISSIPPI DEATHS
Frank Dantoni Sr., retired postal worker
By Sidney Cearnal Clarion-Ledger Obituary Writer
Frank Sam Dantoni Sr., 62, of 809 N. State St., a retired post office employee, died of drowning Tuesday while fishing on a Hinds County lake.
Services are 2 p.m. today at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home.
Mr. Dantoni, a native of Brookhaven, had lived in Jackson for 35 years. He was a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in west Jackson before retiring in 1988. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War, a member of the Moose Lodge and St Mary's Catholic Church. He was an Avid fisherman.
He was the first person I worked when I went to work for the post office in July 1967," said Barney Taylor, now supervisor of carriers at the Westland Plaza post office.
He carried me out and showed {me how to deliver mail. He was a good carrier — one of the fastest I've ever seen. He could move around {that route," Taylor said. "He was easy to get along with." Mr. Dantoni had gone fishing Tuesday afternoon when he was found floating in the 12-acre lake at Bolton-Brownsville Road and Jim Williams Road shortly before 4p.m. His 16-foot aluminum boat was found overturned in the water.
Hinds County Coroner Robert Martin said Mr. Dantoni probably died between 11 a.m. and noon. "He. had a heart attack which may have {caused him to fall in the water and drown," Martin said, Mr. Dantoni loved to fish, said {Charles "Buddy" Waggoner,) his friend and co-worker of 30 years.Waggoner and Mr. Dantoni had lunch together Monday.
He cooked chili. He was a great cook. He cooked seafood and Italian food- He knew all the old recipes. He had them in his head. He learned them from his mother," he said.
"Everybody called him 'Cuz'. He called everybody 'Cuz' and every¬body started calling him that. I guess he nicknamed himself.
"Cuz was pure Italian' and the most loyal friend I ever had. He was generous to a fault," he said.
The two men often fished together.
"He was just single-minded about it. He would sit there like he was hypnotized — patient whether they were biting or not, Waggoner said.
Survivors include: son, Frank Dantoni Jr. of Jackson; daughters, Deborah Dantoni Romero of Victorville, Calif., and Michelle Dantoni Hicks of Orlando, Fla.; mother, Mary Dantoni of Jackson; and six grandchildren.
Comment: Baptism record at Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Brookhaven, MS.
Drowned in Trotter Lake, in Bolton, Ms. Doing what he loved fishing.
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Ashes, spread in Trotter Lake, Bolton, Ms, by his son, little Frankie and daughter Deborah. His memorial marker is at Saint Francis of Assisi in Brookhaven MS.
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Only child of Sam D'Antoni and Mary Theresa Barranco D'antoni.
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The Clarion-Ledger ■ Friday, April 6, 1990
MISSISSIPPI DEATHS
Frank Dantoni Sr., retired postal worker
By Sidney Cearnal Clarion-Ledger Obituary Writer
Frank Sam Dantoni Sr., 62, of 809 N. State St., a retired post office employee, died of drowning Tuesday while fishing on a Hinds County lake.
Services are 2 p.m. today at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home.
Mr. Dantoni, a native of Brookhaven, had lived in Jackson for 35 years. He was a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in west Jackson before retiring in 1988. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War, a member of the Moose Lodge and St Mary's Catholic Church. He was an Avid fisherman.
He was the first person I worked when I went to work for the post office in July 1967," said Barney Taylor, now supervisor of carriers at the Westland Plaza post office.
He carried me out and showed {me how to deliver mail. He was a good carrier — one of the fastest I've ever seen. He could move around {that route," Taylor said. "He was easy to get along with." Mr. Dantoni had gone fishing Tuesday afternoon when he was found floating in the 12-acre lake at Bolton-Brownsville Road and Jim Williams Road shortly before 4p.m. His 16-foot aluminum boat was found overturned in the water.
Hinds County Coroner Robert Martin said Mr. Dantoni probably died between 11 a.m. and noon. "He. had a heart attack which may have {caused him to fall in the water and drown," Martin said, Mr. Dantoni loved to fish, said {Charles "Buddy" Waggoner,) his friend and co-worker of 30 years.Waggoner and Mr. Dantoni had lunch together Monday.
He cooked chili. He was a great cook. He cooked seafood and Italian food- He knew all the old recipes. He had them in his head. He learned them from his mother," he said.
"Everybody called him 'Cuz'. He called everybody 'Cuz' and every¬body started calling him that. I guess he nicknamed himself.
"Cuz was pure Italian' and the most loyal friend I ever had. He was generous to a fault," he said.
The two men often fished together.
"He was just single-minded about it. He would sit there like he was hypnotized — patient whether they were biting or not, Waggoner said.
Survivors include: son, Frank Dantoni Jr. of Jackson; daughters, Deborah Dantoni Romero of Victorville, Calif., and Michelle Dantoni Hicks of Orlando, Fla.; mother, Mary Dantoni of Jackson; and six grandchildren.
Comment: Baptism record at Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Brookhaven, MS.
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Ashes, spread in Trotter Lake, Bolton, Ms, by his son, little Frankie and daughter Deborah. His memorial marker is at Saint Francis of Assisi in Brookhaven MS.
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Only child of Sam D'Antoni and Mary Theresa Barranco D'antoni.
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The Clarion-Ledger ■ Friday, April 6, 1990
MISSISSIPPI DEATHS
Frank Dantoni Sr., retired postal worker
By Sidney Cearnal Clarion-Ledger Obituary Writer
Frank Sam Dantoni Sr., 62, of 809 N. State St., a retired post office employee, died of drowning Tuesday while fishing on a Hinds County lake.
Services are 2 p.m. today at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home.
Mr. Dantoni, a native of Brookhaven, had lived in Jackson for 35 years. He was a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in west Jackson before retiring in 1988. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War, a member of the Moose Lodge and St Mary's Catholic Church. He was an Avid fisherman.
He was the first person I worked when I went to work for the post office in July 1967," said Barney Taylor, now supervisor of carriers at the Westland Plaza post office.
He carried me out and showed {me how to deliver mail. He was a good carrier — one of the fastest I've ever seen. He could move around {that route," Taylor said. "He was easy to get along with." Mr. Dantoni had gone fishing Tuesday afternoon when he was found floating in the 12-acre lake at Bolton-Brownsville Road and Jim Williams Road shortly before 4p.m. His 16-foot aluminum boat was found overturned in the water.
Hinds County Coroner Robert Martin said Mr. Dantoni probably died between 11 a.m. and noon. "He. had a heart attack which may have {caused him to fall in the water and drown," Martin said, Mr. Dantoni loved to fish, said {Charles "Buddy" Waggoner,) his friend and co-worker of 30 years.Waggoner and Mr. Dantoni had lunch together Monday.
He cooked chili. He was a great cook. He cooked seafood and Italian food- He knew all the old recipes. He had them in his head. He learned them from his mother," he said.
"Everybody called him 'Cuz'. He called everybody 'Cuz' and every¬body started calling him that. I guess he nicknamed himself.
"Cuz was pure Italian' and the most loyal friend I ever had. He was generous to a fault," he said.
The two men often fished together.
"He was just single-minded about it. He would sit there like he was hypnotized — patient whether they were biting or not, Waggoner said.
Survivors include: son, Frank Dantoni Jr. of Jackson; daughters, Deborah Dantoni Romero of Victorville, Calif., and Michelle Dantoni Hicks of Orlando, Fla.; mother, Mary Dantoni of Jackson; and six grandchildren.
Comment: Baptism record at Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Brookhaven, MS.
Inscription
Marker- " IN LOVING MEMORY"
Frank was cremated.
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Marker at Saint Francis Catholic Cemetery, in Brookhaven, Lincoln County, MS
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