Obit:       Salvatore A. Abbate Sr., Obituary,  May 3, 2001



Source:  Journal Inquirer

             Manchester,CT (issue May 7, 2001)



Submitter:   ABishop, May 2001


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ABBATE



Salvatore "Sal" A. Abbate Sr., 77, of Ash Drive, Windsor Locks, beloved husband 

of Ledia (Cornelio) Abbate, died Friday, May 4, 2001, at Hartford Hospital.



Sal was born in New York of the late Joseph and Margaret (Ambruso) Abbate and 

had lived in Hartford before moving to Windsor Locks. He served in the Army during 

World War II, serving in the 486th Battalion, 3rd Armor Division in Normandy, 

Northern France, the Rhineland, Andennes, and Central Europe. He owned and operated

Sal Abbate Plumbing & Heating Co. from 1958 until his retirement in 1985. He was a 

member of VFW Post 254-Hartford and was known as the Mayor of Ash Drive.



Besides Ledia, his wife of 48 years, Sal is survived by a daughter, Maria Curto and 

her husband, Michael, of Windsor Locks; his grandsons, Joseph Ribaudo of Windsor Locks 

and Salvatore A. Abbate III of Windsor; three stepgrandchildren, Michael, Marc, and 

Vincent Curto of Agawam, Mass.; his mother-in-law, Concettina Cornelio of Windsor Locks; 

his sister, Rose Piwarcyk and her husband, Peter, of East Hartford; his brothers, 

Daniel Abbate and his wife, Ruth, of Wethersfield, Andrew Abbate and his wife, Marie of 

Hartford, and John Abbate and his wife, Alice of Newington; his sister-in-law, Grace Abbate 

of Wethersfield, and a brother-in-law, Steve Scolsky of West Hartford. His son, Salvatore 

A. Abbate Jr., died in 1984. He is also predeceased by two brothers, Joseph and Rocco Abbate, 

and a sister, Millie Scolsky.



Relatives and friends are invited to gather Monday at 9:15 a.m. at the Windsor Locks Funeral 

Home, 441 Spring St., Windsor Locks, for a procession to the St. Mary Church in Windsor Locks 

where a Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Burial will be in St. Mary 

Cemetery. His family will receive friends Sunday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. 



Memorial donations may be made to the Windsor Locks Lions Ambulance Fund, Box 105, Windsor 

Locks, CT 06096, or to the American Heart Association, 5 Brookside Drive, Box 5022,

Wallingford, CT 06492-7522.








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