Submitted by: Mary Jo Koran

 SBT 4/23/1979

Torino Vernasco

January 1, 1910 – April 22, 1979

Torino Vernasco, 69, of 123 Eastgate, died at 5:30am Sunday in St Joseph Hospital after an extended illness.

He was born on January 1, 1910, in St Gliogio, Piacenca Province, Italy, and came here from Italy in 1922. He was employed for 46 years at Uniroyal, Inc., retiring in 1972.  On November 23, 1944, in Mishawaka, he married Georgia Smith, who survives with two daughters, Mrs. Jud Sawyer and Mrs. Becky Ditmer; four grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Delphina Minotti and Mrs. Deslina Belli and a brother, Joseph, all of Mishawaka.

Vernasco was a WW II veteran and a member of St Bavo’s Church and the DeAmicis Club.

Friends may call from 7 to 9pm today and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9pm Tuesday at the W. 8^th St., entrance of the Hahn-Peffley-DeVos Funeral Chapel, where arrangements are incomplete.