Luigi Valeri, age 90 of Kenosha, died peacefully on Sunday, May 13, 2018, at his residence, surrounded by his family.<\/p>\n
He was born on March 24, 1928 in Melrose Park, IL and was raised in Italy.\u00a0 Luigi was the son of the late Francesco and Margherita (Ciotti) Valeri.<\/p>\n
On August 22, 1953 at St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church, Racine, he was united in marriage to Rita Nixa.\u00a0 Sadly, after nearly 61 years of marriage, Rita preceded him in death in 2014.<\/p>\n
Luigi was employed with AMC\/Chrysler Corporation for 30 years.\u00a0 He retired from the final repair department in 1979.\u00a0 Luigi co-founded Valeri Auto Body in Winthrop Harbor with his son, Louis.\u00a0 He later sold his share to his son and began Luigi\u2019s Auto Body and Sales where he was still active until the time of his death.<\/p>\n
He was a member of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church.<\/p>\n
Luigi was a hard worker and he liked to buy, repair and sell cars.\u00a0 He enjoyed spending time up north at the family cabin and fishing, boating, snowmobiling and cooking.\u00a0 His specialty was making Lasagna, sausage and homemade wine.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Above all, he loved to be with his family.<\/p>\n
He is survived by his three children, Margaret Valeri, Louis (Carmela) Valeri and Angela Valeri; his three grandchildren, Christina, Andrew (Yilian) and Michael Valeri; his sister, Anna Carlini; and four nieces and nephews, Filippo (Lucrezia) Carlini, Lisa (Brian) Skowronski, Maria Giovianna (Adolfo) Angelici and Nazareno (Maria Giovianna) Fratini.<\/p>\n
Luigi\u2019s family would like to thank Alicia for the exceptional loving care she provided.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Funeral services will be held on Monday, May 21, 2018, beginning with a prayer service at 9:15 a.m. from the Piasecki-Althaus Funeral Home, 3720 39th Avenue, Kenosha, WI. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, 2224 45th Street. Entombment will follow in All Saints Mausoleum.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Luigi Valeri, age 90 of Kenosha, died peacefully on Sunday, May 13, 2018, at his residence, surrounded by his family. He was born on March 24, 1928 in Melrose Park, IL and was raised in Italy.\u00a0 Luigi was the son of the late Francesco and<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":13894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"service-location":[],"class_list":["post-13893","obituary","type-obituary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obituary\/13893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obituary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/obituary"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"service-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service-location?post=13893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Informaci\u00f3n del servicio<\/h3>\n