Louis Anthony “Lou” Guiliano – an avid fisherman and gardner

Louis Anthony “Lou” Guiliano, 94, passed away on Saturday, June
19, 2004 at Memorial Hospital. Lou, a 59-year resident of Santa
Rosa, was known to many as “Pap.” He was the son of Italian
immigrants, born on October 12, 1909 in Chicago Heights, Illinois.
He was the second child in a line of nine siblings. At the age of
8, he and his family packed up and headed to California by train,
where they settled in Fresno. Lou held a wide variety of jobs from
the time he was a young man. He worked for the Fresno Bee
delivering papers and running ads, and delivering telegrams for
Western Union on his bicycle, and then at a hat factory. He was
later hired as a brick mason at San Diego State University. Lou
then moved to San Leandro, where he was employed by Del Monte, and
during World War II the plant became a munitions factory where he
too was employed. He also worked for General Motors in Oakland. In
1945, Lou was asked to assist in the start-up of Santa Rosa Shoe
Company. He then decided to settle here in Santa Rosa. As plant
maintenance engineer, he worked for 33 years until his retirement
in 1978. He remained working there part-time and assisted in the
shut-down of the shoe factory in 1979. On December 20, 1947, he
married Betty Black of Healdsburg, who preceded him in death. He
was known to family and friends as a warm, fun-loving, independent,
hard-working, kind and generous man. He was an avid fisherman and
gardener, and a devoted sports fan. His favorite Bay Area teams
were the San Francisco Giants and 49ers. He loved to play cards and
gamble at the local casinos. He was a member of the
Italian-American Club, the Druids, and the Marin Rod and Gun Club.
He is survived by his sons, Anthony Guiliano and his wife Barbara
of Forestville and Jerry Guiliano and his wife Susan of Medford,
Oregon, and his daughters, Sylvia Andreis and her husband Steve of
Santa Rosa and Arlene Scribens of Placerville; three sisters, Nell
Jess of Byron, Lorraine Kincaid, and Evelyn Melton of Clovis, and a
brother, Mike Guiliano of Sun City, Arizona; eight grandchildren,
George, Erin, Chrissy, Spencer, Sidney, Tony, Terry and Larry; and
seven great-grandchildren. He requested no funeral services.
Memorial donations may be sent to Hanna Boys Center or the charity
of your choice.