As told to Sharon Sforzini Grant
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Ugo Mancini Remembered
By David Downey, Mountain View Voice
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Harry Peter Sforzini, a lifelong Santa Clara Valley resident and businessman, died peacefully in his sleep on January 22, 2010. Born in Mountain View in 1916, his life spanned and mirrored most of the 20th century.
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Given by Gerry Nelson, Past President of the Mountain View Kiwanis.
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Harry’s eldest daughter, Sharon, awards the Harry Sforzini Scholarships to Mountain View and Los Angeles high school seniors on behalf of the Kiwanis Club of Mountain View.
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Much like the Anayas and Ponces, the Mancinis (and Sforzinis) left their European homeland in the early 20th century for the chance to share America’s prosperity. My great-grandmother Eugenia “Jenny” Mancini (later Sforzini, then Stefani) arrived at Ellis Island on April 15, 1911, aboard the SS La Savoie. She accompanied her father Leone and brother Ugo,…
View Mancini-Sforzini »Harry Sforzini Reports from Europe During WWII
I am writing this letter to you through special permission of my Commanding Officer. It is of my own free will and my own experiences
encountered in this combat zone. As for the truth, you can only take my word for it.
Carmen Ponce Sforzini
Carmen was born in 1919 in Santa Clara as a first-generation Spanish-American. She met her future spouse, Harry Peter Sforzini (a first-generation Italian-American, born in 1916), at Fremont Union High School in Cupertino, CA. This high school is still standing and looking as lovely as it did all those many years ago. Harry courted Carmen for…
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