Vita C. Bergantine-Hylton

Vita Catherine Bergantine Hylton, 94 of Kansas City, Kansas, passed away Thursday, July 12, 2012 at Life Care Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Services will be 11:00 a.m. Monday at the Chapel Hill-Butler Funeral Home, 701 North 94th Street, Kansas City, Kansas. Interment will follow in Leavenworth National Cemetery. Friends may call from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Monday at the funeral home. The family requests that contributions be made to Odyssey Hospice. Vita was born October 21, 1917 in Kansas City, Missouri to Joseph and Patricia (Troia) Mannino. She had spent some time living in Texas, but she had been a Kansas City Area resident most of her life. She was a Real Estate Entrepreneur, purchasing and flipping houses in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Her first husband was Borney Bergantine, Composer, who wrote “My Happiness”, which was a very popular song in the 1940’s and 1950’s. She and he also worked together to publish the “Italian Tribune”, which was a local newspaper in the 1940’s and 1950’s. She was a member of ASCAP, and loved gardening and growing flowers. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Borney Bergantine in 1951, and one son, William Bergantine in 1963. Survivors include her husband, Colonel Albert E. Hylton of Kansas City, Kansas; 1 daughter, Patty Ratty and her husband Leo of Kansas City, Missouri; 1 sister, Mary Rose Palermo of Kansas City, Missouri; 1 sister-in-law, Virginia Bergantine Ruses of Kansas City, Missouri; many loving grandchildren and great-grandchildren; 1 great-great-granddaughter; and many nieces and nephews.