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Rose Cignatta (Community Service)

Rose Z. Cignatta was born in 1928 in a Manhattan brownstone, daughter of Italian immigrants. Her early years in a culturally diverse neighborhood in difficult economic times inspired her to seek knowledge, particularly in the arts, and become an advocate for people in need. In her teens her family relocated to Wallingford and she soon met and married Meriden native Andrew Cignatta, a WW II Marine veteran. They settled in Meriden and for the next 70 years Rose was civical...