By Rebecca Goodman
Enquirer staff writer

Paul D. Angelo, former Green Township police chief and security officer for Hamilton County courts, died July 9 at Sabal Palms Health Care Center in Largo, Fla. The Clearwater, Fla., resident was 88.

Born in Cincinnati in 1916, he was the fourth of Paul and Mary Lingrosso Angelo's 10 children. The family lived on Boone Street in Walnut Hills. His father died when Mr. Angelo was 13, when his mother was pregnant with the couple's last child. It was the year of the stock market crash that precipitated the Great Depression.

Mr. Angelo had dreams of becoming a professional baseball player, but helping his mother support the family was more important so he and two brothers - Alex and Albert - traveled to California, where they built roads for President Franklin Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps program.

"The money was actually sent back to my grandmother, with very little money left for them," said Mr. Angelo's daughter, Loma Angelo of Dent.

He joined the Army when the United States entered World War II and decided to make a career of it. He married Verdie Jane Rogers in 1946 and she traveled with him as he worked as an Army cook in Germany - where two of their six children were born - and France, where a third was born.

The family moved to Cincinnati, where Mr. Angelo was a recruiter until his retirement from the Army in 1962.

Mr. Angelo was chief of police for Green Township during the 1960s and worked in security for Hamilton County and Providence Hospital until 1981.

He also took private security jobs.

"He guarded Jayne Mansfield when she came to town," his daughter said. "He was in love with her. He's got a picture of her with him that was one of his prized possessions."

Mr. Angelo retired in 1981 and moved to Clearwater in 1985.

In addition to his wife and daughter, survivors include three other daughters, Paula Peterson of St. Clair Shores, Mich., Mary Moore of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Anna Lisa Angelo of Clearwater; two sons, Paul D. Angelo of Independence and Antonio Angelo of St. Petersburg; two sisters, Marie Castellini of Beechmont and Edith Lentsch of Huber Heights, Ohio; and a brother, Victor Angelo of Finneytown.

Services have been held. Burial was at St. Joseph (new) Cemetery in Price Hill.

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