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MALUGANI Family History, Part II

Martha (MALUGANI MARCI) TOMLINSON (1888-1981)

111. Martina "Martha" Giuseppina MALUGANI was born in Switzerland on September 30, 1888. She emigrated to California with her mother and younger brother, Charles Aurelio in 1893, rejoining her father, Joseph Charles who had emigrated three years earlier. She married Gerunzio "Jerome" Joseph MARCI, Sr., a native of Frasco, Ticino canton, Switzerland, and had seven children:

After the death of daughter, Elizabeth, at 18 months, Martina and Jerome split up and Martina remarried to Albert TOMLINSON, a boyfriend of her daughter Nellie's, at the time.

Jerome Joseph MARCI, Sr. died on January 4, 1966, of pyelonephritis (a urinary tract infection) brought on following seven years of urethral problems and anorexia at the Wheeler Hospital in Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California. He was 87 years old. Jerome is buried at Saint Mary's Cemetery in Gilroy.

Martina (MALUGANI MARCI) TOMLINSON died at the age of 92 on March 27, 1981, while residing in Acampo, San Joaquin County, California. She is buried in Lodi, San Joaquin County, California.

Albert Hesser TOMLINSON died on May 4, 1999, and is also buried in Lodi.

Charles Aurelio MALUGANI² (1890-1957)

112. Carlo "Charlie" Aurelio MALUGANI ³, was born April 3, 1890, in Lago di Como, Switzerland (now in northern Italy). He appears to have been named for his grandfather Carlo MALUGANI and perhaps his mother Aurelia (CERINI) MALUGANI. He emigrated with his mother in 1893 at the age of 3 to California where he was reunited with his father who had settled a few years earlier. Charles married Pearl Elizabeth FISHER about 1915, he 25 years old at the time and she 14 years old. They had eight children:

Charles grew up in the hills above Rincon Valley in Santa Rosa and attended school for about two years at Alpine School, but that was hardly enough to learn to read. After he married Pearl he learned to read from her and was enumerated in the census as able to read and write.

By 1912, Charles was registered to vote in Rincon precinct as a Republican.

About 1915, Charles married Pearl Elizabeth FISHER in San Rafael, Marin County; he was 24 years old and she about 14 or 15 years old. They first lived at the Old GEMMET place up Calistoga Road and then moved over the hills toward Calistoga, Napa County, to the PETERSON ranch about halfway down the Calistoga grade (Petrified Forest Highway), where their first son Alvin was born in 1917. By 1918, they moved over to the Sonoma County side to Gates Road, just over the "BUCHI Grade." It was then that the "Spanish Flu" pandemic struck toward the end of World War I. Pearl, then pregnant with daughter Hazel, fell ill but managed to pull out of it before giving birth in January, 1919.

Later in 1919, by the 1920 census, the MALUGANIs moved down Calistoga Road to Alpine Road where they lived on Alpine Road (then recorded as "Rincon Hill Road") near his parents and aunt, Caterina (MALUGANI) PAROLI, who lived at the top of Alpine Road.

By 1922, Charles and his wife, Pearl, were given P.O. Box 297 in Rincon Valley. From there they moved to a converted chicken house on Alpine Road where Cora was born in 1923. Later they removed to a plot later dubbed the DERBY Ranch, just below where Alpine Road breaks from Calistoga Road and across the road from his sister Serena (MALUGANI) MAGATELLI. The DERBY Ranch address was noted as P.O. Box 282 in 1924 and 1928. Charles farmed the plot and cut firewood along Mark West Creek to take down into town to sell. The rest of their children were all born while living at the DERBY ranch, where they were enumerated in the 1930 census near the HITCHCOCKs, FECHTERs, SHARPs, MAGATELLIs, STEWARTs, PAROLIs, FISHERs, and WILLIAMS, and on through at least 1932, when youngest son Bud was born. The MALUGANIs had worked to buy the DERBY Ranch place but they lost it when a handshake deal fell through.

In the early 1930s, the MALUGANIs briefly moved north of Santa Rosa to Healdsburg, near the Madrona Manor (then known as the Madrona Knoll Rancho) at the junction of Dry Creek Road and Westside Road. Not long after they returned to Santa Rosa and settled in the Fulton area at a fruit orchard at 1689 Fulton Road, on the east side of the road near the creek that cuts through the northeast corner of today's Piner High School. There, Pearl's paternal grandmother, Harriet (CHAPMAN FISHER) WILLIAMS, lived with the MALUGANIs for a while about 1935 before her death in 1936.

On October 30, 1941, wife Pearl died of a heart attack while preparing a Halloween party for the L. B. BURTON family. Pearl was only 40 years old. She is buried at the Chapel of the Chimes in Santa Rosa.

After Pearl died, the family briefly moved a block south along Fulton to the west side of the road near the old Piner School, roughly catty-corner from today's Piner High. Not long after this, still in the early 1940s, the MALUGANIs moved to Frazier Street (now Frazier Avenue) near the Fairgrounds and Aston Avenue where Charlie's brother Joe lived.

After a brief stay at Frazier Street, Charlie bought 2289 Francisco Road from the KNUTSENs, back in the Fulton area. He lived there until his death in 1957.

As his daughter Hazel put it, Charlie was either happy or wanting to fight like a rooster when he got to drinking, often with Pearl's stepfather, Al WILLIAMS. He usually left disciplining the children to his wife and only laid a hand on his eldest son Al once, after several warnings.

Charles Aurelio MALUGANI died of liver failure at the age of 67 on April 28, 1957, in Santa Rosa. He is buried at the Chapel of the Chimes in Santa Rosa with Pearl.

The MALUGANI place at 2289 Francisco Avenue was left to youngest child Bud, but son Bert lived at the place while Bud served in the U.S. Air Force.

Antoni "Tony" MALUGANI (1895-1977)

113. Antoni "Tony" MALUGANI was born May 30, 1895, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. He was named for his uncle Antoni MALUGANI. He married Grace FINNEY but had no children. They later divorced.

Tony served in France during World War I and later worked largely as a farmer laborer for various people such as Raymond FECHTER and brother, Joseph at his shale pit on Porter Creek Road. Tony's younger brother Dan recalls the contrast between brothers Tony and Joe who was a hard worker. Tony was known for his headaches that conveniently came on when there was work to be done.

Antoni MALUGANI died October 3, 1977, in his home in Santa Rosa.

Serena (MALUGANI) MAGATELLI (1896-1928)

114. Serena MALUGANI was born in July 1896 in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. She married Antoni "Tony" Benjamin MAGATELLI and had five children:

Tony was from Tovo di Sant'Agata, Sondrio, Lombardia, Italy. He emigrated, departing from Naples aboard the Sicilian Prince and arrived in New York on April 13, 1904. He was bound for San Francisco, presumably to meet up with a Mr. GAZZETTI of 533 Green Street, along with an Antoni (OMADEI), also of Tovo di Sant'Agata. His brother Domenico migrated seven years later in 1911, as did his widowed mother 20 years after that in 1931.

The MAGATELLIs lived across Calistoga Road opposite the DERBY Ranch where Serena's brother Charlie lived from about 1924 to 1932.

Serena is remembered as a hard-drinking woman with a fiery temper.

Serena (MALUGANI) MAGATELLI died on May 1, 1928, in Sonoma County. She was only 31 years old.

Tony MAGATELLI died 21 years later on November 13, 1949, in Sonoma County. He was 64 years old.

Josephine "Josie" (MALUGANI) SANFORD (1898-1994)

115. Josephine "Josie" L. MALUGANI was born December 5, 1898, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. She may have been simply named for her father Joseph, but may as well have been named for her maternal grandmother Josephine CERINI. She married Leo E. SANFORD, a native of Minnesota by way of Seattle, Washington, and had four children:

The SANFORD family lived in Glen Ellen, Sonoma County where Leo had a butcher shop in the late 1920's. About 1932 the SANFORDs moved to "God's Country" in Washington, as Leo used to say. There he ran a shrimp boat in La Conner, Skagit County in Northwestern Washington.

Leo E. SANFORD died on May 17, 1968, in Mt. Vernon, Skagit County, Washington. He was 73 or 74 years old.

Josephine L. (MALUGANI) SANFORD lived to the age of 95 and died on October 4, 1994, in Snohomish County, Washington.

Joseph Constantino MALUGANI (1899-1984)

116. Joseph Constantino MALUGANI was born October 9, 1899, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. He married Evalina HAROW and had five children:

Evalina left the family soon after her first grandson Bobby was born in December 1945. A few years later Joe remarried to Anita M. (BACCI) BUONACORSI, an Italian immigrant who had two daughters from a prior marriage.

Joe worked a shale pit on Porter Creek Road above Santa Rosa. He was a very hard worker and put in long hours.

Joseph Constantino MALUGANI died on August 22, 1984, at the age of 84.

Anita (BACCI BUONACORSI) MALUGANI died 15 years later on January 14, 1999, at the age of 91 years. She was buried on January 19 at the Redwood Memorial Gardens in Guerneville, Sonoma County.

Philomena L. MALUGANI (1901-1931)

117. Philomena L. "Mina" MALUGANI, possibly spelled Filomena, was born October 2, 1901, at the "Rock House" in the hills above Rincon Valley, Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. She lived with her parents and never married.

After her father died in 1924, she, her mother, and youngest brother moved into Santa Rosa and resided at 926 Cherry Street where she worked at a hotel, recalled to be the Lincoln Hotel.^{[Cen 1930]}

Philomena L. MALUGANI died November 19, 1931, at the young age of 30. She is buried along side her parents at the Calvary Cemetery on Bennett Valley Road in Santa Rosa.

Daniel Joseph MALUGANI, Sr. (1908-2008)

118. Daniel Joseph MALUGANI, Sr. was born on August 11, 1908, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California and is believed to have been named for his maternal uncle, Dan CERINI. He married Stella Maria COMALLI, also the daughter of Italian immigrants, on October 10, 1932, at the St. Thomas Aquinas Cathedral in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada. They had two children:

Daniel Joseph, Sr. is the youngest of eight children and therefore developed a wonderful sense of humor. He attended Alpine School in the hills above Rincon Valley in Santa Rosa. There the MALUGANI family was closely allied with the FISHER-WILLIAMS family through the marriage of Dan's eldest brother Charlie. As Dan recalls, the tall, hardy FISHER boys frequently stood up for the smaller Italian MALUGANI boys, Dan in particular, when trouble was afoot.

On a September afternoon in 1924, just after Dan turned 16, his mother sent him out to find his father. After seaching a while he checked the corn field and found him lying unconscious on the ground. Dan carried him back to the house and he died the next day of brachiopnemonia.

After Dan came of age, he worked at a service station in Santa Rosa on the corner of 5th and A streets. After marrying Stella they moved to the bay area where he worked for Standard Stations.

They moved into San Francisco on July 4th, 1934, where Dan recalls traversing the Golden Gate Bridge when it first opened in May 1937.

Later Dan opened his own tire shop, the Malugani Tire Center, in Mill Valley, Marin County, California.

Dan's wife Stella Maria (COMALLI) MALUGANI died on July 17, 1999, in Mill Valley. She had suffered from Alzheimer's disease in her final years. Her funeral, which my family and I attended, was held on the 21st at "Our Lady of Mount Carmel" Catholic church in Mill Valley. She was laid to rest at Valley Memorial Park in nearby Novato.

Daniel Joseph MALUGANI, Sr. died on February 28, 2008, at his home in Mill Valley. He was 99½ years old, and had hoped to outlive his elder maternal cousin Olga (CERINI) CERINE, but missed catching her by a mere five days. He was laid to rest alongside Stella at Valley Memorial Park in Novato.

Paul PAROLI (1896-1984)

131. Paul PAROLI was born February 7, 1896, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California.

He died in Santa Rosa on January 14, 1984, at the age of 87.

Dominica (PAROLI) MAGATELLI (~1898-1917)

132. Dominica PAROLI was born about 1898, likely in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. She and Domenico MAGATELLI and had one son:

Domenico MAGATELLI was from Tovo di Sant'Agata, Sondrio, Lombardia, Italy. He emigrated, departing from Le Havre, France aboard the La Gascogne and arrived at Ellis Island on March 14, 1911. Upon arrival he stated he was to join his sister Bettina in Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, California by way of San Francisco. His elder brother Antoni had also immigrated seven years earlier, and his widowed mother followed 20 years later in 1931.

In December 1917, when son Albert was just months old, Dominico was loading explosives (either black powder or dynamite) on to a wagon when it ignited. Dominico escaped with his life but Dominica was thrown from the wagon and died a few days later on December 28. She was only about 19 years old. Tragically, Domenico MAGATELLI took his life five months later at Dominica's grave.

Their infant son Albert was adopted by Dominica's parents and raised as a PAROLI.

Charles F. PAROLI (1901-1981)

133. Charles F. PAROLI was born on May 5, 1901, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. He was very close to his older brother Paul and wherever Paul could be found Charlie was usually nearby.

Charles PAROLI died in Santa Rosa on June 1981 at the age of 80.

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MALUGANI Family History, Part III