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Bob was born in Brooklyn, NY & moved to Hartford with his parents, Anthony & Caroline, & older brother Lucian. He attended Hall High School & Yale School of Music. Bob worked for insurance companies including Metlife and Aetna, until establishing an investment company – Grillo Financial Services, with son Paul.
A salesman at heart, he quipped his greatest sale was convincing Paul and Anna Mozzicato that he was fit to marry their only daughter Antoinette. Bob & Toni were happily married 61 years, lived in Tucson, AZ, West Hartford, CT, and Vero Beach, FL. He loved golf, travel, schmoozing with old friends and always making new ones. An accomplished pianist, he filled the home with music ranging from ragtime, Gershwin, and Debussy, to Beethoven. It seemed fitting that he lived one year for each of the 88 keys on a piano. Bob was predeceased by his parents, brother & wife Toni. He leaves 3 sons & their families — Paul Grillo & Heidi of Westerly, RI, daughters Caroline (Benoit) of West Hartford & her children Lucy and Marin, and Emily of Brooklyn, NY; Robert Grillo, Jr. & Susan of Essex, CT, children Alisa of Chicago, Evan from Essex, Anna from Madison; Nicole and Steffen Kutz from Unionville and their children Alex & Maya, and Ken Grillo and Joan of Burlington, VT and their daughter Julia. The family plans a private memorial service in the spring.
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