Samuel and Lucille Ragozine

LUCILLE M. RAGOZINE, 91, OF NILES, DIED  6:50AM THURSDAY MAY 12TH  AT ST. EIIZABETH HEALTH CENTER IN YOUNGSTOWN.

SHE WAS BORN JULY 23, 1924 IN NILES THE DAUGHTER OF LAWRENCE AND PHILOMENA INFANTE. A 1943 GRADUATE OF NILES MCKINLEY HIGH SCHOOL. 
ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1946 SHE MARRIED SAMUEL F. RAGOZINE FROM GIRARD. THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN, DAUGHTER LYDIE BUTLER OF WARREN AND FOUR SONS, DAVID RAGOZINE AND HIS WIFE DIANA OF BRISTOLVILLE, OHIO, ANTHONY RAGOZINE AND HIS WIFE SANDRA OF CONNEAUT LAKE, PA., LARRY RAGOZINE AND HIS WIFE JANET OF NILES, AND SAM RAGOZINE AND HIS WIFE CAREN OF NILES, EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN, MARNIE MARTINI AND HER HUSBAND STEVE, ROCHELLE CHAMBERLAIN, TIFFANY FISHER AND HER HUSBAND CLINT, DAVID RAGOZINE AND HIS WIFE LAURA, NICOLE WHITSEL AND HER HUSBAND KRIS, ANTHONY RAGOZINE, SAMANTHA RAGOZINE AND HER FIANCE PERRY DULL AND LORENZO RAGOZINE. TEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, JEFFREY, CROSS, CAMERON, DOMINIC, NIKO, TRAVIS, HALEY, CHRISTIAN, NICHOLAS AND VINNY.
AND SISTER-IN-LAW ANGELINE INFANTE OF NILES.

LUCILLE  AND SAM WERE LIFE LONG MEMBERS OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL IN NILES. SAM AN USHER AND LUCILLE ALONG WITH HER SISTER-IN-LAW ANGIE INFANT AND WITH FRIENDS FROM THE CHURCH FINELY TUNED THE RECIPE FOR THE FAMOUS CHEESE PUFFS AND FRIED TWISTS AND WORKED TIRELESS HOURS TO PROFIT THE MOUNT CARMEL FESTIVAL. SHE WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE INFANT JESUS OF PRAGUE GUILD, MOUNT CARMEL SOCIETY AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SOCIETY. SHE HAD A SPECIAL DEVOTION TO THE INFANT OF PRAGUE AND MADE BEAUTIFUL GOWNS FOR THE STATUES WHICH SHE GAVE AWAY AS GIFTS. SHE HAD MANY TALENTS BUT THE ONE SHE SHARED THE MOST WITH EVERYONE WAS HER ITALIAN COOKING. SHE COULD LITERALLY MAKE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING. AND HER PIZZA WAS THE TALK OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. SHE MANAGED TO RETAIN THE OLD TRADITIONAL WAY OF DOING EVERYTHING, USING WHAT YOU HAVE AND NO WASTING. 
 
 EVERYONE KNEW THAT THERE WERE CERTAIN TIMES OF THE DAY WHEN SHE WOULD BE DEEP IN PRAYER, AS HER ROSARY WAS HER CONSTANT COMPANION. SHE WOULD STOP AND TALK BUT THEN SAY ' I MUST FINISH THE ROSARY” SOMETIMES WHILE FALLING ASLEEP.
SHE LOVED HER FAMILY MORE THAN ANYTHING AND WOULD SAY “I HAVE FIVE KIDS AND JUST LIKE MY FINGERS THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT”.
SHE WAS TRULY ONE IN A MILLION. READY TO GIVE YOU HELP, DIRECTION, LOVE WHATEVER YOU NEEDED. IT DIDNT MATTER HOW TIRED OR BUSY SHE WAS, BUT TO HER YOUR NEEDS WERE MORE IMPORTANT.
SHE WILL BE DEEPLY MISSED BY EVERYONE WHO’S LIFE SHE TOUCHED.

 LUCILLE WAS PROCEDED IN DEATH BY FOUR BROTHERS, DOMENIC INFANTE, JAMES INFANTE, CARL INFANTE AND ANTHONY INFANTE.

FRIENDS MAY CALL 3-6PM SUNDAY AT THE JOSEPH ROSSI AND SONS FUNERAL HOME IN NILES, WHERE THE MOUNT CARMEL BEREAVEMENT MINISTRY WILL CONDUCT PRAYERS AT 5:30PM

MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL WILL BE HELD FOR LUCILLE AND HER HUSBAND SAM AT 10AM MONDAY AT OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL CHURCH IN NILES, PRECEDED BY A 9:30AM PRAYER SERVICE AT THE FUNERAL HOME.

BURIAL WILL BE IN NILES CITY CEMETERY.

SAMUEL FRANK RAGOZINE , 94, OF NILES, DIED 5:48PM TUESDAY MAY 10TH  AT SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY NURSING HOME IN NILES. 

BORN APRIL 14, 1922 IN GIRARD OHIO THE SON OF ANTHONY AND LYDIA RUGGIERO RAGOZINE. HE WAS A 1940 GRADUATE OF GIRARD HIGH SCHOOL. AND NEVER LOST HIS LOVE FOR THAT TOWN. HE WOULD ALWAYS TELL EVERYONE THAT HE WAS A GIRARD MAN. AND HE DIDN’T MISS TOO MANY GIRARD FOOTBALL GAMES WITH HIS SONS.

HE MARRIED THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE (ALMOST 70 YEARS) LUCILLE INFANTE RAGOZINE ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1946.
 THEY HAVE FIVE CHILDREN, LYDIE BUTLER OF WARREN, DAVID AND HIS WIFE DIANA OF BRISTOLVILLE, OHIO,  ANTHONY AND HIS WIFE SANDRA OF CONNEAUT LAKE, PA, LARRY AND HIS WIFE JANET OF NILES AND SAM AND HIS WIFE CAREN OF NILES. EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN, MARNIE MARTINI AND HER HUSBAND STEVE, ROCHELLE CHAMBERLAIN, TIFFANY FISHER AND HER HUSBAND CLINT, DAVID AND HIS WIFE LAURA, NICOLE WHITSEL AND HER HUSBAND KRIS, ANTHONY RAGOZINE, SAMANTHA RAGOZINE AND HER FIANCE PERRY DULL AND LORENZO RAGOZINE. TEN GREAT-GRAND CHILDREN, JEFFREY, CROSS, CAMERON, DOMINIC, NIKO, TRAVIS, HALEY, CHRISTIAN, NICHOLAS, AND VINNY. 
HE LEAVES BEHIND HIS SISTER ANGELINE INFANTE OF NILES, HIS BELOVED DOG SAMMI AND MANY NIECES, NEPHEWS AND THEIR FAMILIES.
HE IS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS THREE BROTHERS, FRANK, JOE “RED”, AND PATSY “STICKY” RAGOZINE AND SISTER MARY RAGOZINE PORTER.

SERVING VERY PROUDLY IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY DIVISION 45 DURING WWII, HE WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN FRANCE JULY OF 1944, GERMANY IN SEPTEMBER OF 1944 AND GERMANY IN FEBRUARY 1945,  EARNING HIM THREE PURPLE HEARTS AND NUMEROUS MEDALS.
AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS SAM BY MOST, HE WAS A DIE-HARD YANKEE FAN WHO NEVER MISSED ONE OF THEIR GAMES ON TV. WHEN A JOHN WAYNE MOVIE THAT HE LOVED WOULD COME UP AT THE SAME TIME AS THE YANKEES GAME, IT WAS THE YANKEES THAT ALWAYS WON OUT. IN THE SUMMERTIME HIS PRIDE AND JOY WAS HIS GARDEN AS HE WOULD SPEND HOURS TAKING CARE OF HIS TOMATOES AND PEPPERS.
HE WAS KNOWN AROUND TOWN AS ONE OF THE MOST COMPETITIVE BOCCI PLAYERS. OF COURSE HE WAS IN AN ELITE GROUP BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE CAME CLOSE TO HIS AGE.  IN 1995 IN CAPE CORAL FL., HE WON THE SENIOR OLYMPICS CHAMPIONSHIP BOCCI TOURNAMENT. ALWAYS A TOUGH COMPETITOR, THIS WAS A HIGHLIGHT IN HIS LIFE.

HE WILL BE SADLY MISSED BY HIS FAMILY AND ALL THAT KNEW AND LOVED HIM. HE LEAVES BEHIND FOR ALL OF US, A BEAUTIFUL LEGACY OF A MAN WHO TRULY FOLLOWED DIVINE GUIDANCE IN HIS LIFE. AND HE SHOWED ALL US HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO BE KIND AND RESPECTFUL TO ALL AND TO NEVER GIVE UP NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR LIFE.

FRIENDS MAY CALL 3-6PM SUNDAY AT THE JOSEPH ROSSI AND SONS FUNERAL HOME IN NILES, WHERE THE MOUNT CARMEL BEREAVEMENT MINISTRY WILL CONDUCT PRAYERS AT 5:30PM

MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL WILL BE HELD FOR SAM AND HIS WIFE LUCILLE AT 10AM MONDAY AT OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL CHURCH IN NILES, PRECEDED BY A 9:30AM PRAYER SERVICE AT THE FUNERAL HOME.

BURIAL WILL BE IN NILES CITY CEMETERY WHERE SAM WILL BE HONORED FOR HIS MILITARY DUTY IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY.

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