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MERIDEN – Family and friends don’t forget Salvatore “Sam” Carabetta, original founders of Carabetta companies, as a kind of circle of relatives with everyone he met.
“He was the kindest man, ” said Sam Carabetta’s niece granddaughter, Cristina Carabetta. It looked like the detached, but deep down its center was natural gold. He was very compassionate, loving, gentle. He’s worried about his family.
Sam Carabetta died at his home on Saturday at the age of 9, his obituary. He founded Carabetta Brothers Builders with his brothers, Joe, Sonny, Michael and Donald, 19 years ago, and the brothers built thousands of apartments in Connecticut and Massachusetts. He is survived by his wife, Carol Carabetta, brothers Joe Carabetta and Donald Logodicio, four daughters, six grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
“This is a great loss to our community,” Mayor Kevin Scarpati said. He noted that Sam Carabetta and his siblings were guilty of providing ho to “thousands of people” over the years, adding in Meriden, where the combined apple manages a broad portfolio of residential properties.
Sam Carabetta, the son of Italian immigrants, was born in Meriden in 1926 and grew up during the Great Depression. After his younger brother, Joe, was recruited to serve in World War II, Sam Carabetta was indexed to be with him, said an established friend, the Apple Tobig Tomassetti. The two served in mixing in the South Pacific and were the last group season of brothers who were allowed to serve in mixing. Shortly thereafter, new policies were followed to prevent him from pairing members of the family circle after a circle of relatives lost five children, all aboard a sunken ship in 1942.
“The bond these brothers had, without exception, never saw anything like this,” Tomassetti said.
Sam Carabetta and his brothers founded the business circle of relatives when they returned from the war, setting up their first home on Kensington Avenue in Meriden, said Sam Carabetta’s great-nephew Joe Carabetta III.
Sam Carabetta specialized in demolition projects, his great-nephew said, and his demolition portfolio included giant factory buildings and 8-story wood and brick structures, Carabetta’s website.
“No matter the length of a building, I would demolish it and do it properly,” Joe Carabetta III said.
Sam Carabetta is a challenging and “no frills” boss for whom to paint “because when he was looking for everything he did, he was looking for it right away,” his great-nephew said.
But he also had a softer and more concerned side, remember the circle of family and friends. Everyone, whether a circle of relatives, affectionately called him “Uncle Sam,” Joe Carabetta III said. His brother, Joe, called him a “collie dog” because “everyone enjoyed it,” Tomassetti said.
“Don’t get me wrong, it was hard,” Joe Carabetta III said. “Growing up in the Great Depression and coming out of nowhere, then creating a business and being founders of Carabetta and getting to where it is today, it’s never very easy.
“It’s a facet of him, however, I’d say there’s another aspect that other Americans have no idea about since you had to spend time with him, he was very kind, loving and intelligent. He had a medium gold. big that he would do anything for anyone.
A lifelong Meriden resident, Sam Carabetta “enjoyed being meriden,” his granddaughter said, and actively participated in the network and gave him back his career, adding at the local Boys and Girls Club.
He liked to run for the circle of relatives, as it allowed him to paint with his brothers, members of the circle of relatives said. He remained worried about the block until the end, Joe Carabetta III said, and conducted daily checks of design sites until his final days.
“I’d tell you he never retired, ” said Joe Carabetta III. “In his eyes, he kept working. I enjoyed it.”
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