Anthony J. Digiovanni

He spent his entire academic life in the city of his birth and was a student at the Johns Hopkins University at the outbreak of World War II during which he served as a navigator on a B-17 bomber completing 50 combat missions in the North Africa- European Theatres of Operation.

At the end of the war he completed his studies at Hopkins and entered the University of Md. School of Medicine. After graduation, internship and residency in Anesthesiology, he returned to active duty with assignments in England, Florida, and finally in San Antonio, Texas at the Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center where he held the positions of Chief of the Anesthesiology Services and Director of Residency Training.

On retiring in 1970, he joined the Staff of the Santa Rosa Medical Center and the Faculty of the University Of Texas School Of Medicine as a Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology. He was forced to retire from private practice in 1975 following the first of four myocardial infarctions.

Although physically handicapped by these untoward events, he was reluctant to restrict his activities and found mental gratification in gradually discovering deep-seated artistic talents in areas which he had never before explored. Through 25 years of this much loved activity he found undeniable happiness and joy in this newly-found creativity.

He replaced his accordion with a more manageable electric organ and delved wholeheartedly into stained glass, drawing, watercolor and the last of his new found loves, oil painting.

Dr. Di Giovanni is survived by his beloved wife of 57 years, Lottie; his daughter, Denise R. Rastrelli of Dallas, Texas; two granddaughters, Dominique and Daniella Rastrelli, also of Dallas, Texas; and a sister, Rose E. Hill of Austin, Texas.