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Leonardo SERRAVALLE Obituary

SERRAVALLE, Leonardo ""Lenny"" With sorrowful, sacred hearts, and in light of our most beloved family memories, we are sad to announce the passing of Leonardo Serravalle on January 19, 2019. Leonardo emigrated from Calabria, Italy at sixteen years old with big dreams and a bigger heart and zest for life. Charismatic, joyful, humorously sarcastic, and generous beyond belief, Leonardo built a family alongside a business from the ground up, based upon a reputation of integrity, principles, and faith in God. He was a man who successfully and like Frank Sinatra said, ""did it his way"" but after surviving an accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down, he faithfully accepted his cross and inevitably, God's way. He is survived by his devoted wife, Marcella, who nursed him with love and ultimate sacrifice; his three loyal sons, Dean, Frank, and Ryan; daughters-in-law, Vanessa, Nicki and Lauren; and eight grandchildren, Aidan, Sophia, Audrey, Oscar, Leonardo, Tobias, Alaia and London. The family has requested respect for privacy during this grieving period, and is grateful for all messages of support and love, hoping that contributions can be made to The Holy Rosary Church in Thorold, in Leonardo's memory. Our Father - Leonardo Serravalle When you left home for the first time You cried or so you told me To leave the mountains of your birth The fig trees in your memory The wild adventures on your motorbike The faith of your father But you landed on flatter earth Colder air A foreign language And the hurt of an immigrant To join family To make your own You were poor But you gave to anyone who asked You were poor But you sent secret envelopes to churches You were poor But never so in heart, in love, in life And so you worked And so you worked harder And so you risked every safety To build dreams To build sons To build a life your way And then you fell Tripped upon a cross that You would take up and carry With your wife With your children With your grandchildren With sadness but always with hope And now you are called To another country Like an immigrant again With hope With opportunity But this time welcomed In the arms of His love - Dean, Frank and Ryan

Published by Niagara This Week from Jan. 19 to Jan. 26, 2019.

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