Mike Ruggieri Remembered As ‘Gentle Giant’ With Big Heart
Dave Ruggieri’s eulogy for his oldest son — delivered by a friend — also contained a plea that young people learn from the tragic accident Sunday that killed two.
Michael D. Ruggieri — beloved son, big brother, truck enthusiast, “teddy bear” — was buried Friday at Quidnessett Memorial Cemetery in North Kingstown, after a packed funeral at St. Bernard Catholic Church on Tower Hill Road. The 19-year-old was, according to his dad, David, “really beginning to come into his own” these last few months. He died early Sunday morning when the truck he was riding in overturned on the narrow, winding Shippeetown Road in East Greenwich. Madeline Healey, 18, was also killed that morning. The driver of the truck, Nicholas Whiteley, 21, remains in critical condition at Rhode Island Hospital. The fourth person in the truck that fateful morning, Christopher Mortin, 19, was treated at the hospital and released the …
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linda marie anthony
5:39 am on Saturday, February 25, 2012
MY CONDOLENCES GO OUT TO MICHAEL RUGGIERI AND MADELINE "MATTIE" HEALEY'S FAMILIES DURING THIS TIME OF GRIEVING FOR THEIR LOSS OF THEIR CHILDREN. MAY GOD BLESS BOTH FAMILIES DURING THIS TRAUMATIC TIME IN THEIR LIVES..RIP MICHAEL AND "MATTIE", YOU HAVE BOTH CROSSED OVER TO CONTINUE ON WITH YOUR SPIRITUAL JOURNEY...SINCERELY..LINDA AND GEORGE ANTHONY GOD BLESS AND GOD SPEED more ›