Robert Ferone

The lifelong Port Richmond resident graduated from Port Richmond High School.

Mr. Ferone served in the NYPD during the 1950s and 1960s, assigned to the 6th Precinct in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, among other precincts.

After leaving the NYPD, he owned and operated the William Penn Tavern on Bay Street in the 1970s. He converted the establishment into Roberto’s Restaurant in the 1980s. He retired in the mid-1990s.

Mr. Ferone loved baseball and football and was a longtime fan of the Yankees and Giants, family said.

His son, Robert J., died in December 2011.

Surviving are his wife of 50 years, the former Katherine Krieger; his daughter, Christine Ferone; his sister, Dolores Cirronella, and three grandchildren.

The funeral will be Wednesday from the Harmon Home for Funerals, West Brighton, with a mass at 9:45 a.m. in Holy Family R.C. Church, Westerleigh. Burial will follow in Ocean View Cemetery, Oakwood.