Paul C. DiSavino

November 27, 2020

Paul C. DiSavino, 105, passed of natural causes at the Glen in Willow Valley, Lancaster PA. Paul was born in Trani, Italy to his Americanized parents, while they were on a visit in 1915. He grew up in Union City, NJ, and served in the Signal Corps of the Army Air Corps in WWII. After the war, he worked in radio as Chief Engineer of WPAT in New York City. Seeing the future of radio would be in FM, he bought WLAE-FM a radio station in Hartford CT. The station, and especially its 'easy-listening' music format was his pride and joy. Some years later, he sold the station and set up Professional Audio Video, one of the early showrooms featuring equipment designed for the home recording studio. He always believed that the biggest waste would be to lead an uninteresting life, and lived accordingly. He designed and - almost singlehandedly - built the family home in Towaco NJ. He planted a grove of fruit trees, only to discover that the birds always beat him to the fruit. One of his joys was his forty-year battle with the mini-tractor he used to mow the lawn. (The tractor usually won.) His lifelong love of reading was sparked by the Horatio Alger books of his youth, and extended to an abiding love of Damon Runyon and P.G. Wodehouse. He was always interested in computers, and acquired his first iPhone at age 102. Paul follows his beloved wife Doris, to whom he was married for 67 years at the time of her death. He is survived by his son David DiSavino, of Lancaster, his daughter Liza DiSavino, of Berea Kentucky, and granddaughter Katherine DiSavino Mead of Los Angeles California.