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Birth:          18 Feb 1909 Philadelphia, Pa.
Death:          20 May 1986 Philadelphia, Pa.
Burial:         New St. Mary's Cemetery, Bellmawr, N.J.

Notes
awt Stevens Fam Tree
1910 in Phila 1601 Porter St as Marie
1920 in Phila 1519 Morris St.
1930 in Phila 1519 Morris St. as Millie, with grandparents
1940 in Phila 2431 So 13th St., Phila.
email 19 June 2014 from Betty Tascione
US Soc Sec Death Idx on ancestry
Mildred Manfredi Trombetta, 74, editor-publisher of the weekly South Philadelphia American, died Tuesday 
at St. Agnes Hospital. She lived in South Philadelphia.

For nearly 40 years, Mrs. Trombetta kept the small paper going, writing much of and editing all of its 
contents. On its editorial page, and sometimes on Page One, she took positions that plunged her into 
controversy. She seldom changed her mind.

Generally, she and her readers held the same views. She was born, raised and spent her life in South 
Philadelphia. She knew the area's people and she respected them. She tended to think as they thought.

She was one of the first to support Frank Rizzo in the days when he was on the verge of entering politics. 
When he ran for mayor, she was one of his strongest supporters, and by the time he decided to run for a 
second term, she and Mayor Rizzo had become fast friends.

She served on the Mayor's Commission on Child Abuse and worked with a number of public agencies. She 
also worked with the South Philadelphia Division of the Red Cross and was a member of the Philadelphia 
Club of Advertising Women.

Educated at St. Thomas Aquinas School, like many of her era she dropped out at the age of 14 to take her 
place in the labor force, becoming a supervisor for Bell Telephone Co. She married Dr. Fiore F. Trombetta.

A surgeon and a general practitioner, he decided South Philadelphia needed a newspaper and founded the 
American. He hired an editor and returned to his practice. When the editor died, Mrs. Trombetta stepped in 
and took over.

She ran the newspaper until early 1983 when illness forced her to slow down. The death of her husband, in 
1984, slowed her further.

Mrs. Trombetta is survived by a son, Fred; a daughter, Arlene Nicolini; brothers, Albert, Victor and William, 
and a sister, Alice.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 9 a.m. today at St. Monica's Church. Burial will be in New St. 
Mary's Cemetery on Browning Road, Bellmawr, N.J.
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - Thursday, May 22, 1986

Parents
MANFREDI Vincent (Jim) (18 Jul 1882 - 12 Mar 1951)
AGNES Carmela (Millie) (23 Feb 1884 - 30 Aug 1924)

Siblings
MANFREDI (unnamed baby) (29 Nov 1903 - 2 Dec 1903)
MANFREDI [CHG TO MANFRED] Umberto (Albert J.) (24 Nov 1904 - 22 Apr 1998)
MANFREDI James (Victor) (Vic) (1905 - )
MANFREDI Vincenza (Alice) (18 Feb 1906 - 17 Jan 1997)
MANFREDI Mildred (Carmela) ("Millie") (18 Feb 1909 - 20 May 1986)
MANFREDI William (1 Jan 1911 - 30 Oct 2010)
MANFREDI Lucy (13 Dec 1911 - ABT 1913)

Marriage To TROMBETTA Fiore F. (Fred) (1906 - 2 Nov 1984)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
TROMBETTA Vincent (1869 - )
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Children by TROMBETTA Fiore F. (Fred) 1906 - 2 Nov 1984
TROMBETTA Frederick ()
TROMBETTA Arlene ()

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