He was 72 years old, in the shop in via Vendramin he carried on his father’s business. Funeral on Friday
LATISANA. You didn’t just go to him to change your glasses or fix old ones. His salon in via Vendramin was experienced as a real agora, where an exchange of words or an in-depth analysis of what was happening was one of the most pleasant pauses of the day for many people from Latvia and beyond. Because from “Ottica 2000” they went to us from all over the Lower Friuli and neighboring Veneto, in the certainty of finding cordiality and professionalism.
And Giancarlo Marchetto was exactly all that, almost a person of other times for kindness and availability, passionate about his work and deeply attached to his family, his wife Pierina De Biagio and his son Alessandro.
He passed away on Sunday evening, at the age of 72, due to an illness he had been struggling with for several months. He passed away in his home in Latisana, near the Gaspari Park, where he had returned a few days ago, after a long hospitalization.
He loved to discuss everything, but politics and football really turned him on, as remembered by Cesare Canova, a great friend and best man of “Caio”, as his closest friends called him. “We met as kids in Lignano where his parents Emilio and Gianna had an optical photo shop in via Friuli – says Canova with his voice broken by emotion -, Giancarlo then followed in the footsteps of his optician father, continuing his activity in the Latisana shop ».
The pitch of the Latisana oratory was instead the meeting point together with a group of “diehards” who, like him, still loved running after a ball. At their regular date for the soccer match, Giancarlo Marchetto was never missing and continued as long as his health allowed him.“When you enter a garden you always collect the most beautiful flower”, are the words chosen by the family to try to give a reason for the enormous pain. “He was such a good and courageous man, he never complained about anything – these are the few sentences that his wife Pierina manages to utter in tears – and in all that pain he could still think of others”.
Giancarlo Marchetto’s funeral will be held on Friday 1 October at 15.30 in the cathedral of Latisana and on the same day, from 9 in the morning, it will be possible to say goodbye to him in the mortuary of the Latisanotta cemetery, while on Thursday at 18 a rosary in suffrage.
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