Amato obituaries, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana 

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Amato, Leroy Anthony      5 Jan 1999    Jan 1999    Don Johnson 
Amato, Mary Tortorice    19 Apr 2012    Apr 2012    Jerry Nelson

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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge):  1/5/1999 

AMATO, LEROY ANTHONY 
A cabinet maker and resident and native of Independence, he died Monday,
Jan. 4, 1999, at his home. He was 46. Visiting at Harry McKneely & Son
Funeral Home, Hammond, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday, with a vigil prayer
service at 7:30 p.m. Visiting at the funeral home, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
Wednesday. Religious services at Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church,
Independence, at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, conducted by the Rev. Dean Martin.
Interment in Leroy Amato Family Cemetery. Survived by wife, Diane Bonnette
Amato, Independence; four sons, Vinnie Amato, Darrell Amato, Jeremiah Amato
and Adam Amato, all of Independence; two sisters, Judy Husser, Springfield,
and Jo Ann Terrebonne, Independence; and a brother, H.J. Amato,
Independence. Preceded in death by parents, James and Frances Fontana
Amato. He was a member of Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church. 

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Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) on:  4/19/2012

AMATO, MARY TORTORICE
Mary Tortorice Amato passed away at the Grace Health and Rehabilitation 
Center in Slaughter, LA, on Tuesday, April 17, 2012. She was 86, a resident 
of Zachary and a native of Independence, La. She is survived by her 
daughter and son-in-law, Linda and Devin Holley, three sons, Sonny Amato, 
E.J. Amato and Wayne Amato and wife Peggy, two sisters, Rose Delany and 
Carmella Barbier, a brother, Joe Tortorice, seven grandchildren and seven 
great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Francis 
Henry Amato, her parents, Rose and Tony Tortorice, her sister, Josie 
Ingrassia, and her brother, Frank Tortorice. Visitation will be at St. John 
the Baptist Catholic Church, 4348 Lee St., Zachary, on Thursday, April 19, 
from 9 am until Mass of Christian Burial at 11 am, celebrated by the Rev. 
M. Jeffery Bayhi with recitation of the Rosary at 10 am. Entombment will 
follow in Greenoaks Memorial Park. She was a member of St. John the Baptist 
Catholic Church in Zachary and a member of the Altar and Rosary Society. In 
lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Joseph Hospice Carpenter 
House or Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital. Special thanks to the 
staff and caregivers at Grace Health and Rehab Center and Oakwood Village 
Assisted Living for the love and care given to our mother.

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