Melio A. Allega AMBRIDGE
Published: Thursday,
February 5, 2009 8:57 AM EST
Melio A. Allega, 86, of
Ambridge, died Monday, Feb.
2, 2009, in the Sewickley
Valley Hospital.
Born Feb. 12, 1922, in
Goriano Sicoli A'Quila,
Italy, he was a son of the
late Frank and Josephine
Depanifilis Allega. He was
retired from A.M. Byers and
worked at the Beaver County
Courthouse, where he was a
construction supervisor,
retiring in 1984. He was a
member of the Good Samaritan
Church, Ambridge, American
Legion and SOI Club. He was
a former boxer and was also
a POW in the U.S. Army
during World War II. He was
with the All American 82nd
Airborne Division and the
508th Parachute Infantry
Regiment.
He is survived by his wife,
Rose Vallese Allega; two
sons, Ronald Allega, Lorain,
Ohio, and Frank Allega,
Rochester; a daughter, Anna
Marie Allega, Ambridge; two
grandchildren, Ronald
Anthony Allega, Cleveland,
Ohio, and Elyse Allega,
Lorain, Ohio; two sisters,
Mary Bucciarelli,
Pittsburgh, and Armida
Cifani, in Italy.
In addition to his parents,
he was preceded in death by
three brothers, Anthony,
Arthur and Angelo Allega,
and a sister, Esther
DeSantis.
Friends will be received
today from 6 to 8 p.m. in
the BOHN-MATICH FUNERAL HOME
INC., 1099 Maplewood Ave.,
Ambridge, where a service
will be held on Friday at
8:30 a.m. followed by a Mass
of Christian burial at 9
a.m. in the Good Samaritan
Church.
Entombment will follow in
Resurrection Cemetery.
The Beaver County Special
Unit will meet at 10:15 a.m.
at the cemetery to provide
full military honors.
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Melio enlisted in the Army on 26 March 1943 in Pittsburgh, PA.
After completion of basic training and jump;
school he was assigned to Company C, 50th PIR while the regiment
was still at Camp Mackall, NC.
Melio was captured on D-Day and sat out the
war as a POW. He was liberated on 5/3/45 from Stalag 4B
Muhlberg Sachsen 51-13.
On 12 June 1945, Melio arrived in New York
City Harbor aboard the USS Admiral W. S. Benson (see line 63).
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