Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Grillo, Antonio "Tony" August 19, 1988
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Virginian-Pilot  August 20, 1988
NORFOLK - Antonio “Tony” Grillo, 73, of the 3900 block of Creekwood Drive, retired 
administrator of Marwiew Hospital in Portsmouth, died Aug. 19, 1988, in a 
Portsmouth hospital.
Mr. Grillo became business manager and comptroller of Maryview in 1946. During his 
extensive career here, he watched the hospital develop from a small red brick 
military-designed installation, which averaged about 73 patients a day, to a 
modern establishment. In 1952, he was promoted to assistant administrator; in 
1965, he became administrator He retired in 1978.
He was a member of the American Board of Hospital Administrators and was on the 
steering committee of the Tidewater Regional Health Planning Council and served on 
the board of directors of the American Red Cross Blood Program. He was a member 
and past President of the Tidewater Hospital Council and a member of the Virginia 
Hospital Association, the American Hospital Association and the Catholic Hospital 
Association for 31 years. He served as president of the National Foundation for 
Infantile Paralysis, Portsmouth chapter, for 18 years. He received a Distinguished 
Service Award from the national foundation.
Mr. Grillo, a native of Norfolk, was a member of St. Pius X Catholic Church and 
the Portsmouth Lions Club.
Survivors indude his wife, Esther Barnes Grillo of Norfolk; two daughters, Joan 
Hodges of Norfolk and Diana Gilbert of Chesapeake; a step-son, John Newnam, of 
California; five sisters, Louise Grillo, Mary Withams, Josephine Warren and 
Theresa Willcox, all of Norfolk, and Virginia Wise of South Carolina; two 
brothers, Bennie Grillo and Robert Grillo, both of Norfolk; seven grandchildren, 
and three great-grandchildren.
A Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Pius X 
Catholic Church by the Rev. Frederick George Burial will be in St. Mary’s 
Cemetery. There will be a Christian wake service at 7 pm Sunday in H. D. Oliver 
Funeral Apartments, Norfolk. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer 
Society.

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