By Frank Santangelo
Meet this week’s “Special Person of the Week:ED PALAZZOLO
ED PALAZZOLO SON OF 1st GENERATION ITALIAN AMERICANS MARY (PETRICONE) AND EDWARD PALAZZOLO Sr!
BROTHER TO THE LATE NICK CAMELIO AND JOSEPH PALAZZOLO OF BETHLEHEM NH.
ED’S MOTHER’S BROTHER WAS THE LATE “BO BO PETRICONE” AKA “ALEX ROCCO” WHO BECAME AN ACTOR BEST KNOW FOR HIS ROLL OF “MOE GREENE” IN THE MOVIE “THE GODFATHER”!
ED GREW UP AT 259/261 BROADWAY IN SOMERVILLE WITH HIS MOTHER AND FATHER WHO OWNED A FOUR FAMILY HOUSE THREE DOORS OVER FROM FOSS PARK.
HE ATTENDED ST. POLYCARP SCHOOL WERE HE GAVE TO HIS CHURCH AS AN ALTER BOY AND LATER TAUGHT CCD THERE AS WELL.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT WAS A BIG PART OF ED’S LIFE IN THE VILLE WHERE HE COACHED LITTLE LEAGUE FROM THE 70’s to 1988.
LATER ON, ED’S HEALTH WENT ONTO A DECLINE WHERE TODAY HE IS TEMPORARILY BED RIDDEN, BUT HE STILL KEEPS ON SHINING AS A BRIGHT BEACON HERE IN THE VILLE BY CONSTANTLY UPLIFTING PEOPLE’S SPIRITS AND CONSTANTLY PUTTING A SMILE ON MANY FACES ON SOCIAL MEDIA WITH HIS KEEN SENSE OF HUMOR.
Our hats are off to his true Somerville spirit!
We here at the Somerville News Weekly salute you for everything that you do to make Somerville a better place.
Congratulations!