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Anthony (Tony) Joseph Zerilli was born in Detroit, Michigan on October 24, 1927, to Josephine (Finazzo) and Joseph Zerilli.At the time of Tony's birth, his father was an up-and-coming member of the Eastside Mob under the direction of Angelo Meli and his cousin and brother-in-law Vito William Tocco.
DETROIT (AP) — The Latest on police investigations into Detroit funeral homes (all times local):
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The Vitale gang made an attempt on his life in February 1919. Sam escaped unharmed, but his brother-in-law Pasquale D'Anna was killed. Sam Gianola ordered a surprise attack on the Vitale forces in retaliation. He ordered his gunmen to shower the Vitale headquarters with bullets precisely when D'Anna was being laid to rest during his funeral.
Police removed the remains of 63 fetuses from a funeral home and regulators shuttered the business amid a widening investigation of alleged improprieties.
Coleman Young (1918–1997) Detroit's first African-American mayor; Jacob Merritt Howard (1805–1871) U.S. Senator and writer of the 13th amendment; Margaret Mather (1859–1898) Canadian actress; Henry Billings Brown (1836-1913) U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice; Edwin C. Denby (1879–1929) Secretary of the Navy; Zina Pitcher (1797–1872 ...
Charles Coles Diggs Sr. (January 2, 1894 – April 25, 1967) was the first African-American Democrat elected to the Senate of the State of Michigan. Born in Tallula, Mississippi, to James J. Diggs and Lilly Granderson, Diggs moved to Detroit in 1913, where he owned a successful funeral home on the lower east side.