Sarsorito, Nicholas

Description

Nicholas J. Sarsorito was born in New York April 15, 1915 to Anthony and Angelina Grimoliza Sarsorito. He had two brothers Daniel and John and a sister Mary. In Rye his family lived at 27 High St. and were member of the Church of the Resurrection.

Nicholas married Maria L Degioia June 30, 1935.

Nicholas enlisted May 12, 1941 and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He served in France as a corporal in the U S Army Medical Corps.

The MC traces its earliest origins to the first physicians recruited by the Medical Department of the Army, created by the Second Continental Congress in 1775. The US Congress made official the designation “Medical Corps” in 1908, although the term had long been in use informally among the Medical Department’s regular physicians.

Nicholas was honorably discharged October 4, 1945.

In 1950 Nicholas and his wife were living in the Bronx and had started a family. He was then employed by Western Electric.

Nicholas J. Sarsorito died November 22, 2008 at the age of 93, in Carmel. NY. A Funeral Mass was held at St James the Apostle Church. Interment followed at Rose Hills Memorial Park.