{"id":93914,"date":"2020-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/?p=93914"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T15:59:29","slug":"robert-j-lavorgna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/2020\/05\/18\/robert-j-lavorgna\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert J. LaVorgna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Joseph LaVorgna, 95, of Hernando, FL passed away May 18, 2020 at The Grove Health &amp; Rehab in Hernando. He was born in Paterson, NJ on April 9, 1925 to the late Patrick and Maria (Cielo) LaVorgna.<\/p>\n<p>Robert was a bakery manager for Grand Union Company for many years, first in New Jersey, and then transferred to Miami, Fl to oversee the opening of a new bakery plant. He served our country honorably in the U.S. Navy during WWII.<\/p>\n<p>He arrived in this area in 2004, coming from Tamarac, FL and was Catholic by faith. Robert was a very avid tennis player who continued playing into his 90&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by 7 siblings. Survivors include his loving wife Helen LaVorgna of Hernando, children Robert P. LaVorgna of Hernando, Gay Couch and her husband Jack of Jacksonville, FL. granddaughter Katie Commissaris and great-granddaughter Penelope Commissaris.<\/p>\n<p>Robert&#8217;s urn will be laid to rest with military honors at Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell, FL at a later date. Cremation with Care arrangements under the care of Chas. E. Davis Funeral Home with Crematory, Inverness, FL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Joseph LaVorgna, 95, of Hernando, FL passed away May 18, 2020 at The Grove Health &amp; Rehab in Hernando. He was born in Paterson, NJ on April 9, 1925 to the late Patrick and Maria (Cielo) LaVorgna. Robert was a bakery manager for Grand Union Company for many years, first in New Jersey, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":103924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115336,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93914\/revisions\/115336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chasdavis.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}