Your Dad's side of the family

                Your Dad, Anthony Stephen and you are the last of the Cessa bloodline that we know of.

Your grandfather Michael Stephen Cessa is the only son of Leona Marie Ragsdale Cessa (Noni) and Steven Cessa. 

Your Great Grandfather, Steve is from the Italian side of the family  (On your Dad's side)




Your Great Great Grandfather, Guiseppe, came from Cassamasina, Bari, Italy to Ellis Island, New York in 1913 when he was 17 years old.  He was sponsored by a relative and originally worked as a brick layer in Chicago then moved to Ely, Nevada to be a miner and then moved to Pocatello, Idaho where he started working on the railroad.  Eventually he settled in Denver with the railroad.

He married Evangelina Fioretti in June of 1924 in Denver. Originally she was from Rapollo, Italy and then she worked at the Italian Consulate in Denver.

                                                             Steve was born in 1925

    3 years later, his sister Anna Evangelina was born and six(6) days later his mother died
     at 29 years old.  Then because there was no one to feed the baby, she also died .

The name was misspelled on the grave markers

Guiseppe was heart broken and needed someone to help raise his three(3) year old, Steve.  Guiseppe took Steve took back to Italy to see his grandparents.  Then he was introduced to Evangelina's sister's friend Vittoria Canessa in Rapallo, Italy.   They met and 10 days later they were married.  Vittoria traveled to Cassamasima, Bari, Italy to stay with his parents until they could have the paperwork arranged for her to emigrate to the U.S.  Guiseppe and  Vittoria then had four(4) children. Anna, Rose, Joseph, and Naomi.  Uncle (Joe is the uncle that you and your dad go to see in Arvada.)  They lived out in the country which is now 64th and Federal Blvd in North Denver (The land was sold and became Rocky's Auto)

Your Great Great Grandfather Guiseppe died in 1982 after the Christmas blizzard of 1982 on December 28.  Vittoria followed him a year later.