Thursday, March 17, 2022
To my Aunt Vitina and my first cousins/spouses and their children, I'm so very sorry to hear of the passing of Uncle Leonard. My sincere condolences. As I'm the youngest of the youngest I have vague but fond memories of all the visiting from when we were young but I'll always remember him as the most vibrant and hilarious uncle, making everyone laugh and spreading joy. I remember when I was about 16 years old, working at my dads (Gus Fazio's) shop and changing the oil in my Uncle Leonard's car several times. Having conversations with him under the car about what I was going to do (with my life), because he would ask :) .. He made me laugh when he said "I have so many names now! Uncle, Nono, Dad, Zio"...he made me laugh a lot. And then years later when I was about 25 my dad took me to visit him at the house, probably around 2001. We were planning to design a family crest, we had coffee and I told him about how I started animation school, he thought it was cool that I worked at the casino and asked a lot of questions. I have a number of fond memories. To my first cousins, you all have his wonderful humor and beautiful demeanor, his charm definitely lives on in you all. Love you guys.