John C. Cervone
August 8, 1923 ~ August 14, 2014
Born in:
meadville, PA
Resided in:
Hudson, OH
John C. Cervone, 91, beloved husband, father, grandfather and uncle, passed away August 14, 2014.
John lived the majority of his life in his beloved Meadville, PA, but resided most recently near his family in Stow, OH. He was a WWII Army veteran and subsequently worked as a carpenter and millwright until his retirement. He was active in St. Mary of Grace Church, Meadville; Holy Family Church, Stow; Knights of Columbus; American Legion; Italian Civic Club and the Elks.
He is preceded in death by his parents, 11 siblings and his beloved wife of 56 years, Angela. He is survived by his sons Dan (Jo) and John (Nancy); granddaughter, Amy; and Japanese “granddaughters,” Yuka and Satoko.
He enjoyed giving his handmade wooden crafts to friends and family all over the world. His good-natured teasing and eggplant parmesan will be deeply missed by friends and family.
Family and friends may call Tuesday, August 19th from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at Roofner-Collins-Warren Funeral Home and Creation Services, Inc., 544 Chestnut St., Meadville, PA 16335. A prayer service will be held at 7:45 P.M. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Mary of Grace on Wednesday, August 20th at 11:00 A.M. with Father Matthew Kujawinski as Celebrant.
Interments will take place at St. Brigid Cemetery, Meadville.
Memorials may be made to St. Mary of Grace Church, 1085 Water Street, Meadville, PA 16335.
Please take a moment to share a memory or condolence with the family on John’s Book of Memories online at roofnercollinswarrenfh.com
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Dear Pastor, Nancy and Amy: Our love and prayers go with you during this difficult time. We always enjoyed knowing and visiting with John Sr. He always had such a sunny personality and loved to laugh. We know you will surely miss him. Sandie and Jerry
We are so saddened by the loss of our cousin John Cervone. We enjoyed him visiting us in Rome few years ago, we have many memories about his love for family, ancestry and wood craftmanship. He was a thoughtful, considerate and generous person. He will be deeply missed.
Dear Dan (Jo), John (Nancy) and Amy,
Our sincere sympathy on the passing of your father/grandfather. I will miss him-we all loved Uncle John. I always felt so at ease with Uncle John and Aunt Angie. Uncle John has touched so many lives and will be dearly missed.
Love,
Pauline Cervone Kindervater
We are so sad because John’s death. Cousin Aprilia her husband Luigi and sons Claudio and Alessandro give condolence to all of you sons and family.
We are so sorry for your loss. John will be missed by all, and I will remember the good times we spent with him and Angie visiting in Florida.
Uncle Johnny was special to me. He was the brother of the grandfather I never met, Richard Cervone.
Let me take you back 14 years to 2000. My mother, Marilyn Cervone Richards, Uncle Johnny & I traveled to Italy to visit our distant relatives. I only brought a small journal. I didn’t know I’d need a life-size family-tree to map out family members from not just decades ago, but centuries ago! Uncle Johnny would ramble on & on as if it was easy to understand this is the great nephew of the brother of your great aunt’s sister’s 2nd cousin… I would smile & just laugh inside. Then, if I heard it once I heard it a hundred times, “Your Aunt Angie wouldn’t be happy with you!” We are Italian. I thought Italians drank wine! Several of our Italian family members actually made their own wine. Just because Uncle Johnny wasn’t a drinker, didn’t mean I couldn’t taste the house wines.
What a wonderful trip!! It was an experience of a lifetime for me to have the 3 of us representing 3 generations. Uncle Johnny will always be in my heart. And, I have a daily reminder of what the Cervone family means to me. We named my eldest little girl, Cervone. She is the sweetest & most gentle little 3 year old… her name is fitting.
Bob and Marti, Terrie and I were so saddened to hear of your dad’s passing.
He was always there for us and we will never forget him, and we will miss him.
John was so well liked by all of the folks here at the Danbury in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. We missed him when he went to the hospital and rehab and wished him well when he moved to the Gables in Hudson, OH.
To the family
You had a wonderful father and hopefully all the memories you will cherish forever.
His smile always made me happy. He was such a great man.
You are in all in our thoughts and prayers
Love, Shirley and Bryan
I will miss doing genealogy with my great Uncle Johnny. I wished I had gotten to know him better, but through email, I sure enjoyed talking and working with him on our family history. I am so thankful for that time and sharing a part in his life. I feel very blessed to have known him. My heart and prayers go out to his family. I take great comfort in knowing he is with his beautiful wife Angie again. He missed her so much.
Cervone Family/Cousins, I am sorry for your loss.
Good men will come and go, but there will only be one John Cervone. He was truly the best of the best men I have ever known. He assisted everyone. He always gave me good sound advice for that I was always appreciative of. He left such positive mark upon not only his community, church and future generations. I am sorry for his loss. I was honored to attend his funeral today. May he rest in Peace.
There seems to be no end to the pain I am feeling about losing my Uncle Johnny. He was such a lovable sweet heart.
I enjoyed keeping in touch with him through our e-mails we shared each month. My uncle Johnny might be gone, but he will never be forgotten, we will hold on to the special memories we have of him for years to come until we meet again on Glory.
I know we all have mixed emotions about his passing. But we who have the knowledge and hope of what heaven has in store for us know that Uncle Johnny is well and happy and has been reunited with his dear wife Angie, and all his brothers and sisters. What a Home Coming That must have been!
His Greatest Joy will be meeting his Jesus face to face. God allowed Uncle Johnny to live a long and blessed life because he was a good and just man that loved Him. We will all see him again one day if we have accepted Jesus as our savior.
Christians really never die. They simply change clothes. They take off their earth suits and put on their heavenly attire. There doesn’t have to be any sorrow, fear, or depression about death, for it is simply crossing over into the glory of heaven, where our spirit is alive forever with Jesus.
Cervone Family,
John was truly one of a kind outstanding man. He brought so much Joy and Love to this World the measure can not be made. He will be truly missed by all that had the honor of known him. May he rest in Peace.
I’m sorry I missed John’s funeral as I had company. I knew John as a neighbor at Forest Hills. Whenever I was walking my little Toy Fox Terrier, Lilli, he would always stop his car to say hi and ask how we were. He very often would tease us about how much wear and tear the little dogs did to the road and how we should pay road tax. I usually told him the check was in the mail. His smile and sense of humor will be missed.
With sympathy and prayers,
Mary Lu Sturm
It doesn’t seen possible that it’s a year already!
We think of him very often and all the day to day things he has taught us.
He is truly missed.