Carl Anthony Bastiani
<p>Carl Anthony Bastiani, 95, died on Tuesday, October 17, 2023, in Suwanee, GA. Carl was predeceased by his wife of 49 years, Dorothy, in 2007. He is survived by his five daughters, Cathy, Teresa, Carol, Linda, and Patti; his two brothers, Anthony and Vince, fourteen grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. </p><p>Carl Anthony Bastiani was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of immigrant Italian parents. He attended high school at Sacred Mission House, a minor seminary of the Catholic missionary order, Society of the Divine Word (SVD). After high school, he transferred to the seminary for eight more years of rigorous religious and academic studies in many subjects. At the age of twenty-six, he decided to leave the seminary and pursued a variety of jobs while working toward a Master’s Degree in the Philosophy of Science at University of Chicago. He was a ham radio enthusiast, which led him to volunteer at the Larabida Children’s Hospital Rehabilitation Center where he met Dorothy, who was working there as an occupational therapist. They were married in 1958, and Carl received his appointment with the State Department in 1960. As their family grew, Carl served at six foreign posts in Italy, Romania, and Poland, returning to the family home in Rockville, Maryland at regular intervals. Carl was a flying enthusiast and pilot of single engine airplanes from the early days of his State Department career. He obtained his pilot’s license in Rome, Italy, and continued flying well into his retirement in 1988. After Dorothy’s passing, Carl built a home he lovingly named Villa Dorotea in McCormick, South Carolina, and finally moved to Suwanee, Georgia, where he died peacefully with his daughter, Teresa, and family by his side. </p>Obituary
Carl Anthony Bastiani, 95, died on Tuesday, October 17, 2023, in Suwanee, GA. Carl was predeceased by his wife of 49 years, Dorothy, in 2007. He is survived by his five daughters, Cathy, Teresa, Carol, Linda, and Patti; his two brothers, Anthony and Vince, fourteen grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.
Carl Anthony Bastiani was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of immigrant Italian parents. He attended high school at Sacred Mission House, a minor seminary of the Catholic missionary order, Society of the Divine Word (SVD). After high school, he transferred to the seminary for eight more years of rigorous religious and academic studies in many subjects. At the age of twenty-six, he decided to leave the seminary and pursued a variety of jobs while working toward a Master’s Degree in the Philosophy of Science at University of Chicago. He was a ham radio enthusiast, which led him to volunteer at the Larabida Children’s Hospital Rehabilitation Center where he met Dorothy, who was working there as an occupational therapist. They were married in 1958, and Carl received his appointment with the State Department in 1960. As their family grew, Carl served at six foreign posts in Italy, Romania, and Poland, returning to the family home in Rockville, Maryland at regular intervals. Carl was a flying enthusiast and pilot of single engine airplanes from the early days of his State Department career. He obtained his pilot’s license in Rome, Italy, and continued flying well into his retirement in 1988. After Dorothy’s passing, Carl built a home he lovingly named Villa Dorotea in McCormick, South Carolina, and finally moved to Suwanee, Georgia, where he died peacefully with his daughter, Teresa, and family by his side.
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