Joseph Francis Spacco

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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. Valario Joseph Sylvester Spacco Michael Francis Spacco Marie Donna Spacco James Paul Spacco 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. Virginia passed away on May 4^th, 1985. Debra Lee Spacco (Photo to the right) David James Spacco On June 25th^th, 1995 Joseph took his third wife Bea McFheffrey and moved to Florida where he currently resides. 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.

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