Charles Thomas Montagna
April 08, 1919 - April 18, 2006
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Charles Thomas Montagna
April 08, 1919 - April 18, 2006
Obituary
Charles T. Montagna, 87, was born April 8, 1919 in New York and passed away April 18, 2006 at home in Mission Viejo, California. A retired police officer for the N.Y.P.D. , Charles is survived by his wife, Ann; son, Thomas Charles Montagna and his wife, Elizabeth; daughter, Mary Ann Orlando and her husband, James; sister, Rose Sabatino; brother, Ralph Montagna; grandchildren, Greg Orlando, Sari Ward, David Arias, Jennifer Mills and Marisa Montagna; great-grandchild, Ethan Mills.
14 responses to Charles Thomas Montagna
Dennis & Susan Montagna says:
April 20, 2006
We found some pictures from the Montagna family archives that we placed in the photo gallery. Priceless.
Dennis R. Montagna says:
April 20, 2006
So very sorry for this loss. Uncle Charlie was a great guy, I remember that he always had some riddle, puzzle or trick of some kind to mystify me whenever I saw him. I’ll miss him.
Maria L. Sabatino says:
April 20, 2006
Words seem so inadequate at this time to express all that Uncle Charlie meant to me. I will always remember running around the corner just before 4pm and watch the change of shifts at the 61PCT to see if he was there. He would try not to smile too broadly until after the official “ceremony” was over. How proud of him I was! I will miss him terribly. Please know that my thoughts and prayers are with all of you at this time. My brother Ralph wrote these words to me a few weeks ago from his military base in Camp Arifjan in Kuwait when he heard that Uncle Charlie was in the hospital:
“While he may know where he is going, he is going the way he lived his life, heroically. He is truly a class act and has been a role model for me both in my prosecutorial and military careers. All he ever did was work to put bread on his family’s table, serve his country in its greatest time of need, survive a Japanese POW camp, and came back to become a policeman to protect his community. He probably never drew a foolish or dishonorable breath in his life. Even now as his great heart struggles after a lifetime of close calls, he has the grace and courage to accept his destiny with head held high. Truly a representative of the greatest generation America has ever produced, he is a tower of all that is good and decent in this world. I just wish I could get the chance to tell him these things myself while he is still with us.”
Rose M. Sabatino says:
April 20, 2006
I’m trying to think of what I’ll miss about you most, Charlie, but the truth is, I’ll miss ALL of you-the TOTAL you – the indescribably handsome you – you, the fun loving brother who is going to give me riddles to solve now?- you, the courageous soldier – you, the devoted husband -you, the loving father.
I am so proud to have you for a brother and
each time I think of you, I’ll be smiling.
Chris Sabatino says:
April 21, 2006
I personally never met him, at least not that I can remember, but he was Montagna and that alone makes him a great man. I wish I could have met him once to talk to such a great man, but my Grandma Rose’s stories of him will have to do.