Clark County NV Archives Obituaries.....Pallone, Ross June 19, 2005 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nv/nvfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Gerry Perry missgerry@cox.net July 4, 2013, 11:56 pm Las Vegas Review Journal 6/24/2005 1/12/17-6/19/05. Rosario "Ross" Pallone came into this world Jan. 12, 1917, in Oakfield, N.Y. After his birth, the family moved to Pittsburgh. Ross completed the eighth grade and then was forced to quit school and go to work. In 1940, he married Virginia Welshhans. He joined the U.S. Army for a one year stint in December of 1940. But, the bombing of Pearl Harbor changed everything for the newlyweds. Ross was shipped over to Hawaii and spent the next four years in the U.S. Army. When the war ended Ross and Ginnie moved to Nyack, N.Y., where they ran their own business called The Broadway Bakery. Their first child, Virginia Fay was born Dec. 26, 1946. Sixteen months later a second daughter, Dean Rosara entered their lives on April 25, 1948. In 1950, Ross decided he had had enough of the bakery business so he packed up his family and moved back to Pittsburgh. On Jan. 25, 1952, his third and final child was born, a son who they named Ross Perry Pallone. The Pittsburgh years were good for Ross. He bought a parcel of land where he and his wife built their dream home. He started his own cement contracting business. In the summer of 1960, as the Pittsburgh Pirates were about to complete one of their greatest seasons ever, Ross and his family headed West to Glendale, Calif. His love of plants and flowers and the great outdoors put him back to work as a landscape gardener. Along with his work, he also coached his son Ross' Little League team. Many of his lifelong friendships came from those days in youth baseball. In the late 1960's, Ross' oldest daughter, Ginnie moved to Las Vegas to perform as a singer on the Las Vegas Strip. They sold the house in California and moved to Las Vegas in 1975. With the help of his daughter, he joined The Stage Hands Union. It wasn't long before his carpentry skills landed him a job backstage in the "Casino de Paris" the Dunes Hotel. Ironically enough it was the same show his daughter, Ginnie was singing in at that time. Ross worked backstage with the Casino de Paris, Dream Street, the Comedy Store and a number of headliners such as Robert Goulet and Jack Jones. In 1990, three months shy of their 50th wedding anniversary Ross' beautiful wife, Virginia, died. He just sat, until one day about a year after Virginia's' passing one of his dearest friends put a little block of wood and a whittling knife in his hands. He started to carve and a whole new era started in his life at the age of 74. He entered big wood carving contests in California shows and rarely ever came home without a top prize for his entry. He found a new hobby and his family discovered that Ross was an artist. Ross Pallone was an everyman, a mans man and a ladies man. He was handsome. He was strong. He was the hardest working man you will ever meet. He was independent. He was devoted to his family and friends. He loved his Pittsburgh Steelers, suffered with his Pittsburgh Pirates and cheered for the LA Lakers. He adored dogs. He was frugal with his money, but always had a nice home and drove nothing but Cadillac's from 1957 to 2005! He adored his family and was proud of his children and grandchildren's accomplishments. He lived his life on his terms and left this world on Father's Day, the way he wanted it at home surrounded by his three children and their spouses, his neighbors, his two devoted hospice nurses and his beloved dogs, Carlos and Charlie. Ross is survived by his daughter, Ginnie Mollner, her husband, Duke and son, J.T.; also his daughter, Dean Peterson, her husband, Ken and son, David Head; and finally, his son, Ross Pallone, his wife, Sara and three daughters, Addie, Emma and Gracie. Interment will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 26, at Palm Mortuary, 7600 S. Eastern Ave. Services are private. The family requests donations be made in lieu of flowers to Odyssey Hospice Care, 4011 A. McCleod, Las Vegas, NV 89121, or to the Southern Nevada Humane Society. Additional Comments: The information provided for publication was provided by an outside source and is not proven to be correct File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nv/clark/obits/pallone2255gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nvfiles/ File size: 4.6 Kb