Joan Scalzi DiPronio

Legal Executive Administrator For  Textron Lycoming

Joan Scalzi DiPronio, 60, of Newtown, died January 6 at her residence. She endured her illness with grace and determination and had unfailing strength. Mrs DiPronio was born in Bridgeport and was a daughter of Casper and Gizella Kollar Scalzi.

She is survived by her two daughters, Christine Hare and her husband, Gary, and their two children, Melanie and Matthew, all of Shelton, and Jill Cullen and her husband, John, and their three children, Emily, Kathryn, and Lauren, all of Stratford; and her son, Nicholas Frank DiPronio and his wife, Chantel, and their daughter Mia of Stratford. A brother, Casper Scalzi of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; a sister, Arlene Twiss and her husband, Frank, of Stratford; sisters-in-law, Joan Leonetti and her husband, Joseph, of Bridgeport and Ceil Lopresti and her husband, Steve, of Ansonia; an aunt and an uncle; and several nieces and nephews also survive her. She was predeceased by her husband, Frank J. DiPronio.

Mrs DiPronio followed an extensive career at Textron Lycoming as an executive administrator in the legal department. She then pursued work at Ethan Allen in Danbury in the corporate legal department and MacDermid Industrial Solultions in Waterbury. The family had lived for several years in Monroe.

Services were held in Holy Name of Jesus Church, Stratford, on January 10 for a Mass of Christian Burial. Interment followed in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Trumbull.

Arrangements were by the Abriola Parkview Funeral Home, 419 White Plains Road, Trumbull.

The Newtown Bee        January 13, 2005