Otto Costa

1917 - 1993  (76 years)

• Name	Otto Costa
  Birth	8 May 1917	Monroe, Ohio, USA At Home   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Adopted	Witness Role: Adoptee: [I2062] Richard GRAMLICH Witness Role: Adopting Father: [I909] Otto COSTA
  Adoption Father	Witness Role: Principal: [I2062] Richard GRAMLICH Witness Role: Father-Ado: [I909] Otto COSTA [1]
  Anecdote	According to his adopted son, Dick Gramlich, Otto "lived his entire life within 3-4 blocks in Bridgeport, Ohio. He worked as a baker about all of his working life. Primarily ran a larger mixer, mixing the dough, similar to a cement mixer. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, flying motorized airplanes, making small items such as a sail boat in a bottle. He also enjoyed visiting all of his brothers and sisters, to include Bob and Romeo who lived around Buffalo, N.Y. He was one of the good guys God puts on the earth, perhaps to counterbalance some of the bad ones. Hooray for dad!!!!!"
  Marriage Groom	5 Oct 1940	Belmont, Ohio, USA   [1]
  	Witness Role: Principal: [F645] ...of Otto COSTA and Emma Pearl GRAMLICH Witness Role: Bride: [I2055] Emma Pearl GRAMLICH Witness Role: Groom: [I909] Otto COSTA
  Note	info from Dick Gramlich: Otto's parents were John Anthony Costa & Teresa Dallimonti, both born in Italy -- migrated to U. S. about 1900. Otto was a baker by trade, primarily at the Nolte Baking Co., Wheeling, WV. His primary job at the bakery was to run a large mixer, similar to a cement mixer, that was used to mix large batches of dough. He lived his entire life in Bridgeport, Ohio. He enjoyed fishing & hunting, and making small things -- boats in bottles, small airplanes that actually flew, etc. He also enjoyed visiting all his brothers and sisters, including Bob and Romeo, who lived near Buffalo, NY. He was overall one the good guys on this earth. He & Pearl had two children -- Sandra Kay & Connie Lou. Sandra married a Carl J. Gross Jr. Connie married a Jerry Gillespie. Otto's brother, Arthur, married Emma Pearl's sister, Lula Mae. Hence two brothers in one family married two sisters in another family.
  Death	24 Aug 1993	Nursing home, Wheeling, Ohio, West Virginia, USA   [1]
  Burial	Holly Memorial Gardens, Blaine, Belmont, Ohio, USA   [1]
  Origins
  Patriarch & Matriarch	John Anthony Costa,   b. 2 Jun 1868, Masserano, Biella, Piemonte, Italy d. 1978  (Age 109 years)  (Father)  Teresa Dallimonti,   b. 11 Sep 1878, Masserano, Biella, Piemonte, Italy d. 1978  (Age 99 years)  (Mother)
  Person ID	I909	Hillbillies & Vikings
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	John Anthony Costa,   b. 2 Jun 1868, Masserano, Biella, Piemonte, Italy d. 1978 (Age 109 years)
  Mother	Teresa Dallimonti,   b. 11 Sep 1878, Masserano, Biella, Piemonte, Italy d. 1978 (Age 99 years)
  Marriage	1898	Italy   [1]
  	Witness Role: Bride: [I963] Teresa DALLIMONTI Witness Role: Groom: [I906] John Anthony COSTA
  Family ID	F920	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1
  Children	+ 1. Richard Gramlich,   b. 10 Nov 1934, Monroe, Ohio, USA d. 19 Nov 2009, Doraville, DeKalb, Georgia, USA (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F1886	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Mar 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Emma Pearl Gramlich,   b. 8 May 1917, Lewisville, Monroe, Ohio, USA d. 8 Mar 1978, Bellaire, Belmont, Ohio, USA (Age 60 years)  Other Partners: Michael Zlate
  Marriage	5 Oct 1940	Belmont, Ohio, USA   [1]
  	Witness Role: Bride: [I2055] Emma Pearl GRAMLICH Witness Role: Groom: [I909] Otto COSTA
  Children	+ 1. Sandra Kay Costa,   b. 30 Jan 1944, Belmont, Ohio, USA d. 28 Oct 1980, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 36 years) + 2. Living
  Family ID	F645	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 8 May 1917 - Monroe, Ohio, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Reference

  Carl Jón Denbow. "Otto Costa". Hillbillies & Vikings. https://jonandjohn.org/getperson.php?personID=I909&tree=tree1 (accessed April 28, 2025).