By Katherine Schaeffer

Carl Giampolo never missed a day during five decades of working construction, ushering at Forbes Field and Three Rivers Stadium and caring for his wife in the last years of their 72-year marriage. "His devotion to his children and my mother was incredible," daughter Carol Giampolo Speck said. "He gave with all his heart and never looked back."

Carl Giampolo, born in Oakland's Panther Hollow neighborhood on Dec. 25, 1915, died peacefully Saturday, May 30, 2015. He was 99. A decorated World War II veteran, Mr. Giampolo was a sergeant in the 3606th Quartermaster Truck Company of Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth Army in Africa and in the liberation of Rome in June 1944.

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