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In the interest of speed and timeliness, this story is fed directly from the Associated Press newswire and may contain spelling or grammatical errors.
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Matriarch of last fresh fish company on Fisherman's Wharf dies
Saturday August 16, 2003
SAN FRANCISCO, (AP) Annetta Alioto Lazio, whose family runs
the last fresh fish company on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf,
has died of heart failure in Greenbrae.
She was 98.
Born in Santa Elia, Sicily, Annetta Alioto came to the United
States as a child. She married Tom Lazio, and in 1940 they founded
the Tom Lazio Fish Company, which eventually became the
Alioto-Lazio Fish Co. on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf.
The Alioto and Lazio families helped develop the Wharf, but have
been caught in a legal dispute with the city for years over their
fishing shed, which port engineers say may collapse.
While the case was being debated in court, Lazio was called to
give a deposition. Whent the judge asked the then 97-year-old woman
if she wanted to sit down, she answered, ``Your honor, Alioto women
always stand.''
She is survived by her daughter, Stephanie Cincotta of San
Rafael; and her son, Lawrence Lazio of Eureka. A Mass will be held
on Wednesday at 10:45 a.m. at SS Peter and Paul's Church on
Washington Square in San Francisco.
(Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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