Notes for ADELE MARIA BRANDALEZE: The Brandaleze came from San Ballino near Venice where they were peasants on the Count's estate. The Perseghins and Bombanatos considered them to be lower class. Adele and her sister Rosa married Gaetano and Napoleon and immediately emgirated to America. Neither saw their parents again. With two World Wars intervening, Adele did not return to her home village until the 1950's. By that time, they had become the "rich Americans" to their cousins who were still struggling as farmers. Since the fifties, there has been regular contact with San Ballino. Nona ("grandmother") was a tiny rotund woman who only learned as much English as she needed to get by. Living at home, raising nine children, she was deeply attached to her children, all of whom settled nearby. Her daughters especially maintained daily contact with their mother until her death in 1971. Besides daily mass, her one recreation was bingo, which she played several times a week.
More About ADELE MARIA BRANDALEZE and NAPOLEON PERSEGHIN: Marriage: January 07, 1907, SAN BELLINO, REVIGO PROV ITALY.
Children of ADELE MARIA BRANDALEZE and NAPOLEON PERSEGHIN are:
MRS ADELE MARIA BRANDALEZE (b. June 21, 1886, d. May 13, 1971)
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