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GUILFORD -- When William Rosa made a friend, it could easily become a lifetime relationship. "I met Bill in the 1960s, when he was a butcher for the old Pied Piper supermarket in East Haven," said longtime pal Sal Chiaramonte of Clinton. "My father had just passed away, and my mother was looking for a job, and got a job there packaging meats. She met Bill and treated him like a son, and I met Bill through her. I think he had just gotten married. We got along so well, we clicked on everything. Years later, when he had a condo for a month each year in Florida, we'd spend a week with him, and he and I would have something going every day. He became part of our family."
Rosa's oldest niece. Carol Bowes of Hamden, who lived in the same house with her uncle until she was 8, said: "I never called him 'Uncle,' not out of disrespect but out of love, because he was more than my uncle; he was my friend," she reminisced. "My first bike was a hand-me-down from him, which my father repainted. He and I were always exchanging jokes and were active e-mail buddies."See the full content of this document
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Ex-Guilford Store Owner? Kept Stock of Loved Ones
Rosa died April 15 at age 73.
Born Oct. 8, 1935, in New Haven, a son of Ernest and Rita Rosa, he attended Wilbur Cross H...See the full content of this document
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