Anthony Alfred Trozzi

After a short struggle with the Covid 19 virus, Anthony Trozzi passed away on April 13, 2020 at the age of 96 at the New York State Veterans Home in Montrose. Although family members could not be with him during the pandemic, he was with nurses and staff at the Veterans Home, where he had been living for the past two years.

A first generation Italian American and part of the Greatest Generation, Anthony was born on March 21, 1924 in Brooklyn to Eleanor & Ettore Trozzi. He grew up in Brooklyn and then moved to the Bronx, where he met his now- deceased wife Joan McHugh. After graduation from Morris High School at the age of 16, he studied aeronautical engineering and after graduating, took a series of civilian jobs for the military, including testing aircraft engines for the Army Air Corps, and then working on Navy & Air Force aircraft at Grumman (now Northrop Grumman) where he was working when World War II started. Turning down aircraft training positions which would have made him exempt from being drafted, he volunteered for the Marines at the age of 19. Turning down another opportunity after boot camp from his commander to be fast-tracked to Colonel status if he remained state-side and became a trainer in Florida, Anthony requested deployment to the Pacific Front, where he was a flight engineer flying missions in the Marshall & Solomon Islands until the end of the war.

After the war, Anthony was discharged at the end of the war, and returned home to New York to marry Joan McHugh on August 31, 1946. He took night classes in electrical engineering and took a job at AT&T, where he worked for over 50 years, retiring at 73 as a Long Lines manager. Anthony & Joan had 3 children, Pamela, William (now deceased) and Cynthia, and 2 grandchildren, Kaitlin Ekberg, & Rhiannon Andreini. Also surviving her brother is Anthony’s younger 93-year old sister, Yola Arnoff, who remembers how protective he was as a big brother. His baby brother Alfred died in 2013. Anthony was an avid swimmer & fisherman, and enjoyed boating and swimming in the ocean with his wife & family.

Given the current restrictions on gatherings, an important precaution during the Covid 19 pandemic, there will be no wake at Edward Carter Funeral Home in Croton, and there will be no funeral Mass or gathering during Anthony’s burial at Holy Rood Cemetery on Long Island. However, the family will hold a memorial for Anthony once isolation requirements are lifted and it becomes safe to celebrate his life together with family & friends.

Anthony’s family would like to give special thanks to the staff and first responders at the Montrose Veterans Home who took care of him for the past 2 years. And in lieu of flowers, memorial donations in his name can be made to the Gary Sinise Foundation – which was established to serve the nation by honoring its defenders - veterans, first responders, their families, and those in need. https://www.garysinisefoundation.org/