- Date Of Birth: April 16, 1942
- Date Of Death: December 28, 2021
- State: Indiana
Louis Pellegrino, 79, of Lafayette, left this earth peacefully on December 28, 2021, in the company of his family, following a lengthy illness.
Born and raised in Brooklyn and Irvington, New York, Lou was a graduate of Colgate University who earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience from McGill University in Montreal. He came to Purdue University as a research scientist in neurobiology in 1973. In 1987 he took a position with the Purdue Research Foundation, from which he retired as Director of Sponsored Programs in 1998. In retirement, Lou volunteered at the Lafayette Police Department and Tippecanoe County Public Library.
Lou loved to travel with his wife Ann, with trips ranging as far from the Midwestern corn fields as sailing the Caribbean on tall ships, visiting his host daughters in Hungary, and playing with sea lions in the Galapagos Islands. He was an avid stamp collector who ran a small stamp dealership business named after a set of structures in the human brain. He also built a working TV set from a kit and threatened to meet his daughters’ dates at the door wearing a tea cosy on his head.
Lou is survived by his wife of 56 years, Ann Shumann Pellegrino; their daughters and sons-in-law Catherine Pellegrino and Christopher Cobb, and Nancy and Eric Swank; his brother James Pellegrino and sister Joann Scaduto; and three grandsons: Nicholas Swank, Andrew Swank, and James Cobb.
