Honoring Aldo Santorum

Honoring Aldo Santorum

HON. WILLIAM SHUSTER

OF PENNSYLVANIA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 Mr. SHUSTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of Aldo Santorum, the father of my friend and colleague, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. Aldo Santorum passed away on January 15th in Crescent Beach Florida at the age of 88 in the home where he and his wife, Catherine Dughi, had spent the past 20 years together. Aldo was an American patriot who served alongside fellow members of the Greatest Generation who honored the call to service in World War II. After the war, Aldo Santorum took advantage of the GI Bill to earn a degree in psychology from St. Francis College in Loretto, Pennsylvania as well as a graduate degree from Catholic University in Washington and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Ottawa. Instead of going into private practice, Aldo devoted his professional career to serving fellow veterans as a clinical psychologist for the Veterans Administration. Throughout his career, Aldo Santorum served in VA hospitals in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Butler, Virginia and in Chicago until 1990, when he and his wife Catherine retired to Crescent Beach, Florida. In addition to his wife and children, Aldo Santorum is survived by an extended, but closely-knit family of 10 grandchildren. I extend my condolences to Rick Santorum and the entire Santorum family for their loss.

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