Belmont County, OH Obituaries
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Richard "Sugar" Imbroscio
Posted: 03/30/2025
Richard "Sugar" Imbroscio passed away peacefully on March 29 at his home after a short illness. He had just turned 94. Sugar was one of the last of a bygone generation that defined twentieth century life in Bellaire.
Sugar grew up in the Italian neighborhood on Washington Street and graduated from St. John Central High School in Bellaire in 1949, where as a 5'6" quarterback he led the Irish in his senior year to a perfectly ordinary 4-6 record. After a cross-county hitchhiking trip with his cousin Leo Curran, he headed off to Ohio State University, like his sons and grandson after him. He joined the Italian fraternity Alpha Phi Delta with his cousin and role model, Joe Marchese, and was later joined by lifelong friends Lou DiPaolo, Joe Pappano, and Ettor DelGuzzo. He came home in the summers to work in the blast furnaces at Wheeling Steel.
Sugar came of age in the post-war heyday of Bellaire, influenced by the generation of wise-guy returning veterans like Alphonse "AB" Bellows, Edwar
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