It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Vito Rigillo due to complications arising from stomach cancer, on Saturday June 3rd 2017 at the Trillium Health Centre. Born in 1947 in San Agata, Italy, to Carmelo Rigillo (deceased) and Carmina Toto (deceased), Vito and his parents and sister Olympia left Italy for Switzerland, immigrating to Toronto to join his sister Rosa (deceased) and her husband Rocco (deceased) in the late 1960s. He decided to pursue a career in hairdressing in Canada while working with his brother-in-law Rocco fixing the roof of a hair salon in Toronto on a hot day. When he looked down through the hole, he felt the cool air conditioning hit his face, and saw a hairdresser cutting the hair of a beautiful woman -- he had found his calling. While he loved hairdressing, he also had a passion for ancient history, and always wished he could have become a history professor. He married his wife Patricia (deceased), also a hairdresser at the time, in Toronto in 1980. They had their daughter Nicole in 1981 and their son Michael in 1983, and worked incredibly hard to give all the best things to their children, who miss them both very deeply. Vito was always smiling, as you can see in his photos, and as the wrinkles on his face always showed. He loved spending days at the beach or at the pool, growing vegetables and hot chili peppers in his garden, peeking in the windows of the local hair salons (which always embarrassed Patricia), and taking a very long time to eat dinner – he was always the last one to finish, and always put up with us teasing him for it. He will be sadly missed by Nicole (and Ravi) and Michael (and Diosbel), his sister Olympia (and Fidel), nieces and nephews Mary (and Tony) Lina, Lisa, Carlo, Nick, Mike, Melissa, Stefano, and Matteo. He will be especially missed by the Kumar family, who welcomed him as a member of their family over four decades.

A viewing will be held on Friday June 9th from 4pm to 8pm and a funeral service on Saturday June 10th from 10:00 am (burial to follow) at the Meadowvale Funeral Centre (full details under the funeral tab). Following the funeral, Vito’s brother-in-law Sonny and his wife Bozena and daughter Jacqueline have kindly invited guests to a lunch at their home at the following address:

536 Amarone Court
Mississauga, Ontario
L5W-OA7

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