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Annunziata (aka Nunziata or "Nancy") Napoleone was born in Alfedena, Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy in 1889, the daughter of Falco Napoleone and Anna Maria Di Ianni. She traveled from the port at Naples, Italy to the United States on the ship Adriatic, arriving March 24, 1919, where she joined siblings Angelina (Rufino) Croce; Stephano (Rosa di Palma) Napoleone and Rosaria (Francesco) Rossi in the Rochester, New York area. Working in the family boarding house, she met Vinzenzo DiMascio. They were married January 27, 1917 at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Rochester, Monroe County, New York. Nunziata died 14 May 1968 in Rochester, Monroe County, New York. Vincenzo (aka "James") and Nunziata had nine children, including son Antonio James DiMascio who married Thelma Louise Bowen.

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