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There are a number of posts below & throughout this blog pertaining to those who have passed away.
The posts were created to honor them & to know (a little) more about who they were.
However from a research perspective the information is essential for future family members who never knew about them or where they are buried.
Before I begin you can find Loreto & Maria Cedrone's headstones/cemetery info including most of the children's gravestones here:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112852499/loreto-cedrone
A simple headstone can often provide more critical genealogical information than google!
You may drive by a cemetery without knowing you're driving right by the grave of someone you know. A grave you can easily see from the road.
While most who knew my parents have
passed or moved away there are a "few" locally who may drive right by unaware they're
doing so including driving by David Cuatt's headstone.
My parents are in the second row at All Souls Cemetery on Marble Ave. in Pleasantville NY 10570
Before we detail the google street view if you're driving in to this small cemetery (it's one way) their headstone is in the 2nd row to your left just before you exit. You can easily find them as they are across the street from Irvington St. You can see Irivington St behind them in the 2nd photo below & as fully detailed below the image.
You can easily see the back of their headstone (currently) thanks to google's street view below.
This view may change as some do but for the last few years as you "drive online" up or down Marble Avenue you can see their headstone. The easiest way to find it is to search for Irvington St.
Google street view may take you "down," Irvington so you may need to "swing around," facing the other way so you're looking at Marble Ave & the cemetery as shown.
Looking straight ahead behind the cemetery fence in the second row you'll see two black or darker headstones. My parents headstone is between the two as shown by the red arrow & as you can clearly see looking through the fence with the orange arrows.
When you're on Marble Avenue depending on your direction as shown below you will be just passing or approaching the cemetery exit. There is also a large oak tree as shown below just before/after the exit. The headstone is easily visible as you drive by in your car or online.
We live in a time where we can each "see," one another online or on the phone.
I can also travel to Pleasantville to "visit," my parents in less time than it takes to physically drive up n' down Marble Avenue.
I have also made my mother's parents
Loreto & Maria (Cellucci) Cedrone & my father's mother Grazia (Gentile) Tocci available here including David Cuatt's.
David was the son of (my sister) Diane & her husband George Cuatt.
Click on each photo to better read the captions.
However I noticed in the first photo below the caption is too small to read. I have explained it here:
Standing at my parents gravestone walking
towards the two identical monuments below the dark arrow (They are identical to the monument seen to the left) continuing past them crossing the pavement you'll approach the back of the Grandparent headstones as shown & explained in the 2nd & 3rd photos below.
You can also easily find the Grandparent headstones driving in (it's one way) as you approach the monuments as shown by the yellow arrow the front of your car will be facing towards facing towards the headstones. You can see my car further down in the photo directly above.
David Cuatt was the son of my sister
Diane (Tocci) Cuatt.
As you look at the cemetery on Marble Avenue there is a side street named Castleton Street
If you're standing on Castelton you can see David's smaller headstone between two larger in the first row as shown below & as you can
see Castelton St is directly behind it.
If you're driving in the cemetery David is in the first row to your right just before you exit.
Ahhh!
To make the blog more visually appealing I linked to your right photos & documents in slide show albums running all the way down the right side of the page.
SEE! THEY SHOULD BE OVER HERE TO YOUR RIGHT
But they're not there are they?
Are they gone for good?
Well for the very few of you who can still see them & that would definitely be a select few you can just let the slide shows roll or you could go to the online album when clicking on an image or the link itself.
Most of you can no longer see them because of the infinite changes to google & web browsers.
This is especially true for the majority of you looking at this
on a mobile device, an example is Smilebox a site that allows you to create custom slide shows. It appears they may now require you to sign in as opposed to just opening upon clicking the link or some slide shows may no longer be active. I have left the few embedded slide shows & they are clearly labeled Smilebox within the various posts because it was easier than reformatting the post with the many other links featured within.
EVERYTHING IS STILL ONLINE.
ALL THE PHOTOS/DOCUMENTS ARE LINKED BELOW:
I do hope you'll scroll this blog enjoying the many stories & memories from the past:
https://sites.google.com/site/loretosfamily/
In the end it doesn't matter.
In the post below I shared "tons," of new family images:
Photos from original negatives most if not all have never before seen. NEVER!
No one said a word.
How is it possible not one family member seeing these for the first time 70+ years later have no reaction?
Not a call (Call? Who calls anymore?)
Not an email/text.
Not a comment on this blog (but that's expected since few visit here) or on facebook.
In the end it doesn't matter.
Like life itself it doesn't matter.
Life?
You have health problems. Do you think most care. I mean really care? NO!
Do you know what they DO care about. Traffic. How much traffic there is on the way to your wake. But what's most important? The "luncheon" following your funeral. In the end you're less important than what's for dinner!
You pass away.
Family/friends mourn for a moment if you're lucky.
As services become less traditional with one day funerals less make the effort to attend.
In fact it's believed funerals will become limited to a select few with more "viewing," online.
After you're gone life quickly moves on.
But unlike years ago where you weren't saturated inundated & self absorbed with your cell phone putting it first & foremost in your life people were more inclined to remember you.
Today? You're like a post/tweet/text...quickly buried by the next one
In the end I've realized all of this doesn't matter:
If I died today a few might mourn but don't kid yourself they'll still be thinking...
WHERE SHOULD WE GO OUT TO EAT OR WHERE'S THE LUNCHEON AFTERWARD?
Think I'm wrong? Think of every person you
know who has passed away. Sure if it's a parent or sibling maybe a close friend you might think about them every so often but overall the majority of those gone rarely come to mind.
That's reality.
Your life like all of the media linked above would eventually fade away.
Life goes on (as it should) but what does not go on is the memory of you. As the years pass you become less visible in the minds of those who knew you.
Eventually those who knew you best will also pass away & with them goes what little memory there was of you & them.
In the end all of this doesn't matter.
See ya'
There are a TON of new photos now online.
A culmination of images from different families. Unlike the other images
online I did not restore these. They are as the originals look. Most
are of good quality.
I did not identify the photos. After naming every person in everyone of
the 100's upon 100's of photos online I just couldn't do that all over
again.
Some are obvious like this one which KILLS me. Pete Nancy & Alice
(Gotta' love the look on her face):
https://goo.gl/photos/4n7MpDX56BKyzbuRA
There are few blurry images (There's nothing I can do about blurry) This is a double image it is not an error in uploading:
https://goo.gl/photos/aTGr1XzoArubbuYx7
Some I have no clue as to who they are. In this image my mother is the
young girl on the ground holding another girl in her arms. The rest are
unknown. Although that might be Ann hidden by my mother's arm:
https://goo.gl/photos/ne1oumtRJba68pyp8
These are mostly of Hobby St when the families lived there. Pete, Nancy,
kids & Camilli cousins. The Marini's & as for the Cedrones,
it's mostly Clara, Ann & my mother with a few of Vi & a young
Sonny. There are none of Harry that I recall. There are a few that were
taken in Italy like this one of Matty:
https://goo.gl/photos/48QSNx2HaxHbqT5r5
Some images repeat. I believe the repeat starts where you see Ann standing next to a STOP sign.
Camilli Marini Cedrone Album:
https://goo.gl/photos/MkiY6YYSv3f6xMDA6
Enjoy!
Google street view may take you "down," Irvington so you may need to "swing around," facing the other way so you're looking at Marble Ave & the cemetery as shown. 
