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Nello Ceccarelli died at the age of 94 on Thursday July 29, 2010. Ceccarelli served on the fairiled RTM for 55 years and in 2007 he was given a proclamation by Fairfield First Selectman Ken Flatto, right. Joe Gall, left, also gave Ceccarelli a medal an honorary membership in the American Legion. Flatto declared Dec. 7 to be Nello Ceccarelli day in Fairfield.
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Nello Ceccarelli died at the age of 94 on Thursday July 29, 2010. In 2007, Joe Gall, left, and Bill Varga presented Nello Ceccarelli with a medal and an honorary membership in the American Legion. Nello Ceccarelli served on the Representative Town Meeting for 55 years.
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Nello Ceccarelli died at the age of 94 on Thursday July 29, 2010. In a 2005 file photo, Nello Ceccarelli visited the creche he set up on Town Hall Green at Christmas time. Ceccarelli held his last vigil in 2005. After that friends volunteered to stay over night for him.
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Nello Ceccarelli died at the age of 94 on Thursday July 29, 2010. In 2003, Grace D'Amico and Nello Ceccarelli posed at the Virgin Mary shine Nello built earlier that year at the end of Fairchild Ave. in Fairfield. Grace has the headstone for her son next to the shrine.
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Nello Ceccarelli died at the age of 94 on Thursday July 29, 2010.
Ceccarelli served on the RTM for 55 years and did his last Christmas creche vigil on Town Hall property in 2005.
Photo: B.K. Angeletti
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Nello Ceccarelli died at the age of 94 on Thursday July 29, 2010.
A photo from 2003, shows Nello Ceccarelli singing Christmas carols at Fairfield Town Hall's Green. Nello was famous for setting up this nativity, seen in background, and holding vigil until Christmas day. Ceccarelli served on the RTM for 55 years and did his last vigil in 2005.
Photo: Christian Abraham
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