Carmine Richard Laveglia
T/4 in Signal Co, Special : Radio A
Military occupational specialty: 776 (radio operator, low speed)
ASN#32621168
Born 1908 in NY, Died 1963
Other residence(s): Brooklyn, NY; Edgewater, NJ
United States Army, European Theatre of Operations
Carmine Laveglia was born on June 21, 1908 in Brooklyn, NY, the sixth of 10 children. His father owned a bootblack business; both of his parents had been born in Italy.
Carmine had a job as a shipping clerk at age 16. By 1930, he was working as a clerk in a law office. His father had died in his fifties, but Carmine and his brothers and sisters were supporting the family. Five of the siblings remaining at home were working in factories and one was a news dealer. Youngest sister Pauline, age 13, was still in school.
By 1940, Carmine, still in the same apartment, was recorded as "head of household." The census records show that four of his siblings were still living with him, that he had completed one year of college, and that he was working for the Addressograph Multigraph Company.
He registered for the draft on October 16, 1940 and eventually was called to duty in the Signal Company Special. He served with the unit in Europe during the war, was discharged with the rank of T/4, and returned to Brooklyn.
Carmine married Sarah "Sally" Cocuzza Arcuri in 1953 and moved to Edgewater, NJ. Sally brought two teenage daughters to the marriage: Connie and Gaytana. Carmine and Sally would have two children of their own, Diane and Rick, and Carmine continued to work for Addressograph in the Bronx.
He died of a heart attack on November 19, 1963, leaving his widow and two young children.
Sources
1920 census
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/32057385:6061?ssrc=pt&tid=15909169&pid=322604841
1925 NY state census
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/24042324:2704?ssrc=pt&tid=15909169&pid=322604841
1930 census
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/39361210:6224?ssrc=pt&tid=15909169&pid=322604841
1940 census
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/2745716:2442?tid=&pid=&queryid=16d73011-ee86-49e8-8210-1192d5267eda&_phsrc=rUS16&_phstart=successSource
1940 draft card
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/195326345:2238?ssrc=pt&tid=15909169&pid=322604841
1953 marriage license
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/4573818:61406?tid=&pid=&queryid=aade14d2-3bb7-416c-b97d-7af4321d2ced&_phsrc=rUS39&_phstart=successSource
1957 photo with caption in Bergen Evening Record (NJ)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/490443495/?match=1&terms=carmine%20laveglia
1963 New Jersey death index
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/4366912:61260?ssrc=pt&tid=15909169&pid=322604841
1963 obituary in The Record (Hackensack, NJ)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/491112754/?match=1&terms=carmine%20laveglia
2005 wife's obituary
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/northjersey/name/sarah-laveglia-obituary?id=28479909