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Pictured in front of the funderal home are Michael Ferrantino, driver; Gabriella Lequerique president
and owner; and Raymond Perillo, licensed manager.
Photo courtesy of Victor Quirolo and Sons funeral home
BY PATRICK ROCCHIO
A familiar name on East
Tremont Avenue for almost
50 years is gone.
Victor Quirolo and Sons
Funeral Home, which was
located at 3176 E. Tremont
Avenue, closed its location
in the Bronx in the fall,
when it sold its Waterbury-
LaSalle property.
However it plans to continue
providing its services
at other locations.
“We are in the Bronx all
of the time,” said Gabriella
Lequerique, Victor Quirolo
and Sons president and
owner “We still have a lot of
customers there that have
pre-arrangements.”
Arrangements have been
made to use local chapels
to provide for their patron’s
needs, she said.
Some families who have
used Quirolo facilities have
done so for at least a century.
The funeral home is currently
operating in Peekskill,
NY. It had been in the
borough since 1971 when it
relocated from East Harlem,
she said.
It was founded in the
late 19th century by Lequerique’s
great grandfather
Victor Quirolo, who immigrated
from the town of Chiavari
in northern Italy.
For many years he ran
the funeral home with his
wife, Giuseppina Guida Quirolo,
who was the heart and
soul of the facility, according
to a company profi le.
Later on, after establishing
himself as a boxer, one
of their sons, Eddie ‘Guida’
Quirolo took over the business,
which was mentioned
in an article about Eddie’s
boxing career in The Ring
magazine in 1929.
The company is now in
its fourth generation of family
ownership.
At one time there were
two Quirolo-named funeral
homes in the area, separated
by about eight blocks.
The other business was
named Louis Quirolo Funeral
Home at 3602 E. Tremont
Avenue.
Both facilities started
in East Harlem and the
families were related.
Louis Quirolo opened in
the early 60s, but closed in
2004.
After the building that
housed Victor Quirolo Funeral
Home was sold, it sat
vacant for a short period.
Recently work commenced
at the property to
construct a large laundromat.
Signs on the property’s
parking lot fence
announce the coming of a
140-machine emporium .
The operator of the
laundromat wasn’t available
for comment as of
press time.
It appears that a laundromat will replace the funeral home in Waterbury-LaSalle.
Schneps Media / Patrick Rocchio
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