My grandfather was Pietro (Pete) Costanzo. He immigrated to the US in 1907. His father was Giuseppe Costanzo and his mother was Maria Giovanna Anania Costanzo. His brother, Filippo (Phillip), immigrated in 1910, and his sister Concetta Costanzo Futino in 1922. Concetta's husband was Francesco (Frank) Futino, also from Bianchi. A sister, Michelina Costanzo Bianco stayed behind in Bianchi. They came thru Ellis Island, and lived in New York, Hagerstown, MD, Baltimore, MD, and Washington, D.C. Concetta and Frank Futino returned to Italy about 1935. Concetta died in Bianchi in 1936. Frank Futino remarried in Bianchi.

Philip Costanzo married Marie C. Palmisano in Baltimore April 1928. They lived in Washington, D.C. up until about 1938. It is believed Philip died around 1938, but I cannot find an obituary or any information about where he died and is buried, or whatever happened to Marie Costanzo.

Both Phillip and Frank served in the US Military in the Baltimore area from 1918-1919. My grandfather, Pete Costanzo, and my grandmother, Mary Louise Boward Lowdan Costanzo, ran a grocery store in Washington, D.C. from about 1930 until his death in 1951. My grandmother, Mary Boward, was from Hagerstown, MD. She passed away in 1943.

Please contact me if you have any information to share on my family. Contact me at dmcshaw@hughes.net. Thanks.

Denise Costanzo Shaw