Peter S. Ritacca, age 66 of Kenosha, died at his home on Tuesday, December 22, 2015, surrounded by his loving family.<\/p>\n
A lifelong resident of Kenosha, he was born on April 21, 1949 and was the son of the late Peter and Katherine (Cerminara) Ritacca.<\/p>\n
Peter served in the U.S. Navy from January 28, 1969 until his honorable discharge on January 21, 1971. He was honored to have been a part of a 2014 Honor Flight that was sponsored by Snap-On Tool Corporation.<\/p>\n
On October 12, 1973 in Kenosha he was united in marriage to Joyce Freitag.<\/p>\n
He began his working career with Dutch Maid. For 33 years, Peter was employed as a machinist with OMC\/Johnson Motors. After Johnson Motors, he was employed with Snap-On Tools for 13 years, retiring in 2012.<\/p>\n
Peter was an avid bow hunter, Packer fan and a Green Bay Packer Shareholder. He was a fantastic chef, decent golfer, good gambler and liked vegetable gardening. His biggest love in life was spending special time and babysitting his beautiful granddaughter, Kara.<\/p>\n
He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Joyce Ritacca; his son, Peter J. Ritacca; his daughter, Lori (Joe) Perotto; his adoring granddaughter, Kara Perotto; his two sisters, Deborah Ritacca Glassman and Karen Ritacca; and many loving nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Kim Ritacca Laudato; and his mother and father-in-law, Lyle and Lorraine Freitag.<\/p>\n
The family would like to extend a special thank you to the staff of Hospice Alliance, Inc., for the exceptional care they provided.<\/em><\/p>\n A Memorial Service in celebration of Peter\u2019s life will be held on Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at the Piasecki-Althaus Funeral Home, 3720 39th Avenue.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peter S. Ritacca, age 66 of Kenosha, died at his home on Tuesday, December 22, 2015, surrounded by his loving family. A lifelong resident of Kenosha, he was born on April 21, 1949 and was the son of the late Peter and Katherine (Cerminara) Ritacca.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":15093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"service-location":[],"class_list":["post-15092","obituary","type-obituary","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obituary\/15092","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=15092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"service-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenoshafuneralhome.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/service-location?post=15092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Informaci\u00f3n del servicio<\/h3>\n