- Date Of Birth: October 14, 1942
- Date Of Death: January 27, 2022
- State: Colorado
Rita Capocelli, 79, died on January 27, 2022, in Centennial, Colorado of complications from dementia.
Rita was born on October 14, 1942, in Calvanico, Italy to Rocco and Luigina Merola. She was the youngest of five, having three brothers and one sister. She completed elementary school and formal seamstress training in Naples, Italy in her teens. She married Vittorio Capocelli in 1963 at the age of twenty, and they moved to Brooklyn, New York, soon after. She had three children, Mario Carlo, Vittorio Junior, and Adriana Annamaria. The family moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1978. Rita helped Vittorio run several Italian restaurants in the Denver area between 1978 and 2005. She is remembered by all for her storytelling and her smile.
Rita was preceded in death by her father, Rocco, her mother Luigina, her brothers, Michele and Benito, her sister, Maria, and her husband, Vittorio. She is survived by her brother, Enrico (Sylvia), sons, Mario Carlo and Vittorio Junior (Kelley), daughter, Adriana Annamaria (Ronald), and grandchildren, Gabriela, Nicolas, Isabella (Hunter), Alessia, Emily, and Sophia.
