2007
Luigi Anthony Vagnoni, 84, an environmental test engineer at what is now the Naval Surface Warfare Center, died June 18 at his
home in Annapolis. He had bladder cancer.
Mr. Vagnoni joined the Navy Department in 1941 as a Washington Navy Yard machinist. He spent much of his career at the
Naval Ordnance Laboratory in White Oak designing and testing missiles launched by submarines.
After retiring from the Navy in 1979, he spent a decade doing test engineering work for EG&G defense contractors.
He was born in Washington to Italian immigrants. He was a 1941 graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School and a 1953
electrical engineering graduate of the University of Maryland. He served in the Navy in the North Atlantic during World War II.
His memberships included the American Legion. He was a former member of St. Mark the Evangelist in Hyattsville. He was a
former alto saxophone player in the Greenbelt Concert Band and the Bay Winds Band of Annapolis.
His wife of 54 years, Donatina Cuozzo Vagnoni, died in 2002.
Survivors include four sons, Stephen L. Vagnoni of North Potomac, Joseph A. Vagnoni of Westport, Conn., Michael A. Vagnoni of
West Friendship, in Howard County, and Luigi A. 'Buddy' Vagnoni Jr. of Chevy Chase; three sisters, Anna Facchiano of
Hyattsville, Catherine Rose of Nyack, N.Y., and Florina Brienza of Adelphi; two brothers, Lawrence Vagnoni of Silver Spring and
Anthony Vagnoni of Rogue River, Ore.; and 11 grandchildren.