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02-08-07, 03:56 PM
February 08. 2007 1:44PM
Oldest World War I veteran in Massachusetts dies
By DAVID WEBER
Associated Press Writer
Antonio Pierro, who was believed to be the last remaining World War I veteran in Massachusetts, has died, his nephew said. He was 110.
Pierro - who lived most of his life in Marblehead and Swampscott - died Thursday morning in a Salem nursing home. He would have celebrated his 111th birthday on Feb. 15.
His nephew, 58-year-old Richard Pierro, said his uncle also was believed to be the oldest man living in the United States.
Antonio Pierro lived with his younger brother, Daniel, 97, and his nephew until about six weeks ago.
Pierro immigrated from Italy in 1914. After serving as an Army artilleryman in France during the war, he returned to Massachusetts and worked in Lynn at a shoe shop and later managed the body shop at a car dealership. He retired from the General Electric plant in Lynn in 1961.
Pierro's wife, Mary, died in 1967. The couple had no children.
The second-to-last World War I veteran in Massachusetts - Russell Buchanan, 106, of Watertown - died in December.
RIP
Ellie
Oldest World War I veteran in Massachusetts dies
By DAVID WEBER
Associated Press Writer
Antonio Pierro, who was believed to be the last remaining World War I veteran in Massachusetts, has died, his nephew said. He was 110.
Pierro - who lived most of his life in Marblehead and Swampscott - died Thursday morning in a Salem nursing home. He would have celebrated his 111th birthday on Feb. 15.
His nephew, 58-year-old Richard Pierro, said his uncle also was believed to be the oldest man living in the United States.
Antonio Pierro lived with his younger brother, Daniel, 97, and his nephew until about six weeks ago.
Pierro immigrated from Italy in 1914. After serving as an Army artilleryman in France during the war, he returned to Massachusetts and worked in Lynn at a shoe shop and later managed the body shop at a car dealership. He retired from the General Electric plant in Lynn in 1961.
Pierro's wife, Mary, died in 1967. The couple had no children.
The second-to-last World War I veteran in Massachusetts - Russell Buchanan, 106, of Watertown - died in December.
RIP
Ellie