Charles A. Spina

November 8, 1925 – February 17, 2023

Charles A. Spina, age 97, passed away on Friday, February 17, 2023 at his residence in Deptford, NJ. He was born November 8, 1925 in Philadelphia to Sabastian and Maria Spina and lived his entire life in the Phila/South Jersey area. He was a veteran of WWII and served as a rifleman with the 259th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army under Gen. George S. Patton. He married Michelina L. Baccari in 1947 and they had two children. After the war, Charles worked on the Ford Motor Company assembly line in Chester, Pa., where afterhours, he was a lights out pitcher for the company softball team. He also spent 30+ years as master carpenter with the Philadelphia School District.

Charles was a lifelong Yankees fan (since they employed one Joe DiMaggio) and made many visits to Yankee Stadium with Michelina. He loved taking day trips, playing baseball and bowling with family, caring for his fruit trees and multiple flower and vegetable gardens around his property. He could fix or build anything that needed fixing or building and that included for his home, his children's homes, and for various Jehovah Witness Kingdom Halls throughout the area, for whom he was also a longtime elder.

He was preceded in death by Michelina on February 4, 2017. Survivors include his two children, Robin (Eileen), Donna (John), his sister, Mary (Americo, deceased), his three grandchildren, Nikki (Nico), Matthew (Ashley), Christopher, his great-granddaughter, Isabella (nicknamed La-La, who always brought a lingering smile to his face), and his step-granddaughter Maria (Jeff) and her two children Victoria and Anthony.

There will be a Memorial Service on Saturday, March 4, 2023 at Somerdale Kingdom Hall, 631 Somerdale Road, Blackwood, NJ 08012. Doors open at 1:00 with the Eulogy starting at 2:00.

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(There will be an Interment ceremony at Gloucester County Veterans Memorial Cemetery at a later date.)

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