| Lawrence Anthony Vagnoni |
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Lawrence A. Vagnoni Sr., 84, who retired in 1993 after 30 years as owner and
operator of Enterprise Auto Glass, a repair shop in Wheaton, died April 12 at the
Brooke Grove Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Sandy Spring. He had
Parkinson's disease.
Mr. Vagnoni owned and operated the Newton Market convenience store in
Northwest Washington for about 15 years before running the auto glass repair
business. As owner of Newton Market, Mr. Vagnoni often extended credit to
hard-pressed families in the neighborhood, his family said.
He moved to Brooke Grove from Silver Spring in 2007.
Lawrence Anthony Vagnoni was a native Washingtonian and a 1944 graduate of
Roosevelt High School. He was a Navy veteran of World War II.
His hobbies included crabbing on the Chesapeake Bay. His family said he once
pulled a man off the railing of the Taft Bridge on Connecticut Avenue NW and
held the man until a police officer came to the scene.
Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Josephine Cuozzo Vagnoni of Silver
Spring; three children, Lawrence A. Vagnoni Jr. of Edgewater, Anthony Vagnoni
of North Caldwell, N.J., and Dana Vagnoni of Silver Spring; a sister; a brother;
and six grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein
Lawrence A. Vagnoni Sr., 84, who retired in 1993 after 30 years as owner and
operator of Enterprise Auto Glass, a repair shop in Wheaton, died April 12 at the
Brooke Grove Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Sandy Spring. He had
Parkinson's disease.
Mr. Vagnoni owned and operated the Newton Market convenience store in
Northwest Washington for about 15 years before running the auto glass repair
business. As owner of Newton Market, Mr. Vagnoni often extended credit to
hard-pressed families in the neighborhood, his family said.
He moved to Brooke Grove from Silver Spring in 2007.
Lawrence Anthony Vagnoni was a native Washingtonian and a 1944 graduate of
Roosevelt High School. He was a Navy veteran of World War II.
His hobbies included crabbing on the Chesapeake Bay. His family said he once
pulled a man off the railing of the Taft Bridge on Connecticut Avenue NW and
held the man until a police officer came to the scene.
Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Josephine Cuozzo Vagnoni of Silver
Spring; three children, Lawrence A. Vagnoni Jr. of Edgewater, Anthony Vagnoni
of North Caldwell, N.J., and Dana Vagnoni of Silver Spring; a sister; a brother;
and six grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein