Today’s obits: Mario Scuderi, salesman, businessman who ‘embodied the American dream’
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
His obituary describes him as someone who “embodied the American dream.”
He was born in Sicily in 1947 and came to America in 1963. His family settled on Syracuse’s North Side on Carbon Street, where he continued to live for the rest of his life.
He had paper routes and other odd jobs as a child and graduated from Tusculum University in Tennessee with a degree in history.
He worked for the Singer Company in sales for 25 years and then opened the Alteration Center, a tailor shop, with his wife on North Salina Street more than 30 years ago, according to his obituary.