1949	Father & Son 3/5/2004	Circa 1970
	Bea & Joe 5/1/2003

Joseph Francis Spacco the sixth child born to James and Concetta Spacco was born on February 24^th, 1930 on Granger St. in Dorchester, MA.

In March of 1947 at the age of seventeen Joseph enlisted into the US Navy and served a five-year term during The Korean War.  He served his first four years aboard the aircraft carrier The U.S.S. Coral Seas as an aviation mechanic.  During his last year of service he was stationed at Westover Air Force Base in Springfield MA and was a member of the VR6 squadron.  For information on the Coral Seas click here: Coral Sea

He met his first wife Dorothy E. Curling in 1950 at the Mercury Roller Skating Rink while stationed in Norfolk Virginia.  They were both avid skaters.  Joe and Dorothy married on March 11^th, 1951 in North Carolina and moved back to the Spacco family homestead on Mill St. in Dorchester MA.

After being discharged from the U.S. Navy he went to work in a machine shop learning the tool and die trade.  He worked for Pollock, Cambridge Tool and Die, and Keystone Camera before taking a position at Polaroid as a mechanical engineer. While working at Polaroid he, along with a partner established their own tool and die company North East Plastics.  He held several patterns for making camera parts.  He retired from Polaroid in 1993.

Joe was a member of the Saint Ann’s bowling league at Lucky Strike Bowling Alley in Dorchester, MA from 1953 until 1967.

Joseph and Dorothy proceeded to have five children together and divorced after seventeen years of marriage.

Mark Anthony Spacco

On July 5^th 1969 he took his second wife Virginia Gloria Hogan and adopted her daughter Debra Lee Hogan.  Together they had another child David James Spacco.  Virginia passed away on May 4^th, 1985.

In August of 1993 at a dance at the Hillside Country Club in Reading, MA he met Bea McSheffrey who mistakenly sat at his table.  A conversation ensued and on June 25th^th, 1995 Joseph took Bea as his third wife.  In 1996 they relocated to Florida where they currently reside.

In 1999 Joe and Bea visited his father’s homeland of Pescara Italy and stayed with relatives in the house his father was born in.  It was a heartwarming experience for him.  He notes that the original key to the front door of the home was still hanging from a nail in a nearby tree.  A key his father most likely had used as a child.  (See Photo on family album page) Also on the same trip he visited his mother's homeland of Pietraperzia, Sicily an acient Sicilian town where relatives remain.

Joe is a member of the Aripeka Elks Lodge #2520 and the Turtles Club of Hundson Florida as well as the Spring Hill Lions Club.  He enjoys spending time with family and friends, dining and dancing.

Joe & Bea 5/18/2003	With Brother Lou 6/20/2003	5/16/2003

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