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- Asheville Citizen-Times, Asheville, NC, Thursday, 8 Feb 1990, p.11, "Deaths/Funerals"
Joseph Troitino
ABINGDON, Va. - Joseph M. Troitino, 84, died Wednesday in a Montgomery County hospital. A native of Pausada Pontevera, Spain, he had lived in Abingdon and Asheville most of his life. He was responsible for 80 percent of the stone work on the Blue Ridge Parkway System. He was recognized by the governor of North Carolina at the 50th Anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway System at Cumberland Knob, N.C. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Police, a Shriner and a 32nd degree Mason in Athens, W.Va. He was an honorary member of Gatlinburg Rotary Club and a member of Spring Creek Presbyterian Church in Abingdon.
Surviving are his wife, Joyce E. Troitino of Radford, Va.; two sons, Thomas R. Troitino of Beckley, W.Va., and David Arden of Abingdon; three daughters, Michelle Troitino Reynolds of Radford, Bonnie Troitino of Asheville and Dorothy Worley of Abingdon; a brother, Frank G. Troitino of Mount Hope, W.Va.; a sister, Luzdivina Garcia of Brazil; 20 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of Farris Funeral Service in Abingdon. Entombment will be in Forest Hills Memory Gardens Mausoleum. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
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