THE EVANSVILLE COURIER

Sunday, March 9, 1919

No longer will the familiar foreign voice of John Lucitelli, 324 Second Avenue, call "bananas, oranges, fresh fruit." The voice, which has been familiar in Evansville streets for many years, was stilled at 7:15 o'clock last night by death.

Lucitelli was the typical Italian vendor of fruits. Coming to Evansville when a boy from sunny Italio he bought a push cart and offered his wares to Evansville. He shoved his cart in any sort of weather, telling Evansville that he sold only the best. When one doubted the freshness of his oranges, his invariable phrase was: "Like-a da shook - none better."

Sometimes on a warm, sunshiny day when business was good, Lucitelli would stop for a minute's conversation. His eyes would light up with a look of retrospection and he would tell of the warm sunshine of the lofty mountains and the fruit acres of his native land. Some day he was going back, he would say, when he had money - "his fortune."

Although well advanced in years, he continued to push his cart through the streets. He was 73 when he died. He leaves a wife Margaret (Editor: Maria Giuseppe Ramaglia) and a son, Tony. Funeral services will be conducted at 7 o'clock Wednesday at the Church of the Assumption. Burial will follow in St. Joseph's cemetery.