Birth: November 9, 1926 Death: August 12, 2024 Frances “Fran” Canepari Peragallo, 97, the wife of the late Leon J. Peragallo, passed peacefully and gently into the presence of Jesus in the company of her family, Tuesday, August 13, 2024, at the Jaffrey Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Fran was born and raised on a small farm on Foote Road in Glastonbury, CT in 1926.
The daughter of northern Italian immigrants, she understood the values of hard work and resourcefulness, which served as the foundation for her long and happy life. After graduating from Glastonbury High School, with a recommendation of her high school math teacher, she was specially selected to work as an engineering assistant in the “Wind Tunnel” at Pratt and Whitney Aircraft in Hartford, CT testing engines for the war effort. In 1949, Fran married Leon Peragallo, a returning airman in Europe, a gunner in a B-17 that was powered by Pratt & Whitney engines.
Fran and Leon raised their 3 children and spent 60 years of marriage on Spring St. Extension in Glastonbury. Once her children were older, she took a full-time job at Naubuc Elementary School as a Teachers Aide.
Fran was dedicated to the school children. It gave her great joy to be part of the team and make a difference in children’s lives. She would work late many nights preparing craft projects for the school children.
Fran, our “Mom”, “Grammie”, and “Big Grammie”, was a beautiful woman, but her inner beauty .