He was 75 years old. He was president of the Hospice Furno, municipal councilor and in the documentation center
PIVERONE
It was the mayor of Piverone, Alessandro Fasolo, who announced, in the council meeting last Wednesday, the death of Pierluigi Ollearo, 75, which took place on Sunday evening at the Ivrea hospital, where he had been hospitalized due to a sudden worsening of his health conditions.
A prominent figure in the industrial and cultural panorama of the Canavese, formed by the Olivettian humanism of the golden years, Pierluigi Ollearo, born in Piverone, where he always continued to live, was also a city councilor and councilor at the turn of the 80s, and for many years, until 2014, president and legal representative of the Ospizio Furno retirement home. Positions he held after retiring from work at the age of 49, taking advantage of the early retirement opportunity.
However, his was a long career studded with successes earned in the field: a sort of “motorcycle diary” if you think about his family tradition. The grandfather, Neftari Ollearo, founded one of the first motorcycle factories in Italy in Turin. Which then closed in 1952. Pierluigi then had to think about his future: he was hired at Olivetti in 1960, as a miller, he attended evening courses to become a mechanical draftsman and then a surveyor. He then moved to Elea, as manager of the Turin office, and then took care, until 1986, of training and consultancy activities in Sardinia, Friuli and Trieste. He was appointed commercial director for Piedmont: a position he held until 1992. He also maintained the role of head of the sailing section of the Olivetti sports group for a long time. He inherited his passion for mechanics and history from his grandfather and then from his father Marco, who also passed on to him the love for motorcycles that Pierluigi carried on by collecting motorcycles and vintage cars and organizing exhibitions and rallies. “Pier Luigi was a brilliant person full of interests – recalls the mayor – to whom I and the community of Piverone owe a lot. He had just completed the drafting of a volume “Il fusitore di spade”, dedicated to the history of the Canavese area in Roman times. Together with the late Professor Alfredo Samperi he had instead dedicated himself to research on the history of Piverone ». It was also part of the documentation center of the Viverone lake. And his is an ever timely testimony. “I believe that public activity – wrote Pierluigi Ollearo in the book” Testimonials of a dream “- should be carried out free of charge, because conceived in this way, it is a form of social volunteering useful for the community of which we are part, in line with the example of Adriano Olivetti ». Ollearo, widower of his beloved Mariella for some years, leaves his daughter Valentina. The funeral took place yesterday morning, Thursday 13, in the cemetery of Piverone, where the body was then buried in the family tomb. –
Lydia Massia