ahead of Benito Mussolini's fascists, ground steel for the US war effort and advocated for her disabled daughter in a far less enlightened time. She was, her daughter said, someone who didn't make a habit of giving up."I think my mother would have been around quite a bit longer" if she hadn't contracted COVID-19, her 61-year-old daughter, Dorene Giacopini, said."She was a fighter. She had a hard life and her attitude always was ...
"The way Mom talked about it, he didn't want to raise those kids alone, and men didn't do that at that time," Dorene recalled. "It's ridiculous to me." Italy entered World War II in June 1940. The local police warned Primetta to leave because Mussolini wanted American citizens out of the country. Primetta refused. Several weeks later, the state police told her to get out, warning her that she could end up in a concentration camp.
In Lisbon she boarded a steamer bound for the United States. She returned to Torrington, bought a Chevrolet sedan for $500 and landed a job at a General Motors plant in Bristol grinding steel to cover ball bearings for the war effort. She met her husband, Umbert "Bert" Giacopini, on the job. They stayed married until he died in 2002.
This year, during a visit on September 9, Dorene noticed her mother was coughing. She knew her mother's caretaker had been feeling sick after her husband returned from a wedding in Idaho. All three had been vaccinated. But as she drove away, Dorene guessed that her mother had contracted COVID-19."I made sure we said 'I love you.'" She did the 'See you later, alligator.' I think we both said 'After a while, crocodile,'" Dorene said.
What a shame, she could have lived to 200 years old, but that damn covid got her!😞
9NewsAdel Channel 9 you have just succumbed to your shit journalism and possibly c19 as well
🕊️🫂🌹💞 RIP. So sorry it took Covid to see you go and feel for your family. I bet from what I have read you had one hell of a good life/innings 🇦🇺💖 🫂
I feel sorry for her family but at that age a cold breeze could have done it. Stop blaming Covid for every death in Australia
Haha how hectic is Covid when it harms 105 year olds. Really takes no prisoners. 🙄
Get stuffed she would have died from a cross breeze FFS she was 100 years old
Yeah being over a hundred had nothing to do with it at all. FFS 😠🤔🤦♀️
9NewsGoldCoast Stupid comparison. Put her at her current age in 1918 = same result
You think she might died because she was old as fuck?
😅
WHAT are you trying to say,
With all respect to the family my condolences. However 105 a well placed fart in a room with low ventilation would have been enough! Na covid did it...... can't make this shit up
9NewsMelb fling further down the tubes.
9NewsAdel If it wasn't for the Spanish flu her great grandmother would still be alive too.
In 80 years there’s gonna be kids that survived covid! What’s ur point? An all due respect to the family sorry for lose
Yes being 105 had zero to do with anything. 🙄
She was a hundred years old, for fucks sake. This isn’t the massive tragedy you think it is. It was either covid, a heart attack, a stroke, or just old age.
News flash very old lady dies 🤦🏻
9NewsGoldCoast BYE BYE As In LATER !
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