A LIFE REMEMBERED: Derby man was friends with everybody

By Tom Veilleux
Register Staff
DERBY — Lifelong resident and veteran mailman Louis “Neni” Gaetano had an unusual reunion with a former customer a couple of years ago.
“My dad had to go to the ER at Yale because he wasn’t feeling well,” said a son, Glenn Gaetano of Shelton.
“In the emergency room, there was a Filipino nurse on duty. She came up to him and immediately recognized him. She said she had first met him many years ago at Griffin Hospital, when she was one of six Filipino nurses who had just been hired by the hospital.
"He would deliver letters to these nurses from home, and she said they were all homesick and anxiously waited for those letters. She added, ‘Louie, you were such a friend. We didn’t know anyone else but you, and every day you brought us news from home.’ "

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