Richard C. "Dick" Belloli Sr.

Richard C. (“Dick”) Belloli Sr. Convener and Chronicler, Father, Grandfather and Lions Club Lifetime Member Richard C. “Dick” Belloli passed away unexpectedly on March 7, 2021 in Kissimmee, Florida. A resident of Clinton Township, Michigan, and part-time resident of Kissimmee, Dick was 85 years old. As the honoree of the “Dick Belloli Fan Club,” Dick was an active convener of friends, family, business associates, and others. He organized and gathered nearly twenty separate groups of “chosen family” on a regular basis, including an annual family gathering in Port Austin, Michigan, now 35 years running, as well as the “Belloli Cousins” luncheon which has met 149 times since 2001. Dick had a pronounced interest in ancestry and genealogy. His parents, Joseph and Virginia, were among three Belloli brothers marrying three Oldani sisters, as both were from large families, Dick realized he had 57 first cousins and started chronicling the family connections. At his passing, Dick had recorded 1,235 family members spanning multiple generations. In 2010, he visited Ellis Island where his father had arrived on the La Lorraine in 1913. Later that year, he also traveled to Cuggiono, Italy, from where both Bellolis and Oldanis emigrated. While in Italy, Dick visited the resting place of St. Catherine of Siena in Rome, the namesake of his beloved parochial school on the eastside of Detroit. Dick graduated from St. Catherine’s in 1953 where he attended since kindergarten and had previously served as an altar boy. He served as the coordinator of his annual high school reunion for the last twenty years and maintained close friendships with many of his elementary and high school classmates throughout life. Dick attended the University of Detroit and later the summer banking program at the University of Michigan where he was class president. In 1968, he joined City National Bank of Detroit after a prior stint at NBD Bank. He rose to Vice President of the successor banks First of America and National City Bank. Many of his closest friends are from his tenure at CNB and they have vacationed together on Les Cheneaux Island since 1986. An avid traveler, Dick calculates that he visited 47 states. Lions Club International was central to his giving back. A Lifetime Member, Dick was active for more than 43 years, most recently with the Sterling Heights club. He was a proud recipient of the Melvin Jones Fellow award and had also received the Ralph Lynam Award. He was president of Troy Noon Lions Club for many years and convened more than 92 alumni luncheons of his former Northend Detroit club. He was particularly fond of the Lions Bear Lake Camp, at which a plaque is on display honoring his career in banking from his retirement in 1998. Dick also served on the Beaumont Silent Children Fund Advisory Board for two decades and chaired the Very Special Evening event for many years. Dick was able to accomplish these and so many other activities because he was an active chronicler of daily life. He maintained an enormous list of everyday activities, including attendees at family luncheons, visitors to his Florida home, and other goings-on. He recorded the 140 golf courses on which he played, as well as a list of every car he ever owned—Cadillacs being his favorite. He used his Palm Pilot software daily to stay organized which kept him on track to mail more than 300 birthday, wedding, anniversary and greeting cards annually. Dick Belloli was predeceased by his dear older brother Joseph “Bud” Belloli (Elizabeth “Betty” Belloli) and sisters Virginia “Ginny” (John) Carduck and Shirley Belloli. He will be missed terribly by his children, Joyce Belloli (Steve Jaynes), Janet (Lou) Garofalo, Sharon Gehle and his namesake, Richard C. (“Rick” and Lisa) Belloli Jr. as well as his nine grandchildren, Alan (Nichol), Emily (Jeremy), Jacklyn (Ryan), LeeAnn (Jesse), Angeline (Kyle), David (Nicole), Aaron, Suzanne (Richard), and Joel. Proud and adored great-grandfather of Kaila, Aiden, and Lyra, with two more on their way. A celebration for the many people touched by Dick's life will be held at a date later this summer. In the interim, Dick will be recognized with Visitation on Thursday, March 25th, from 2-9pm with a 7pm Rosary, at Wujek - Calcaterra & Sons, Inc., 36900 Schoenherr Rd at Metro Parkway (16 Mile). A private funeral service will take place on Friday, March 26th, 10:30am that will be Live Streamed via https://youtu.be/8RYdXyttqOU. Interment will be at Resurrection Cemetery. Please share memories of Dick at the “On-Line Guestbook” of WujekCalcaterra.com. In lieu of flowers, Dick has requested contributions to the Lions Bear Lake Camp, 3409 N. Five Lakes Rd, Lapeer, MI 48446-8333 (www.bearlakecamp.org).

Richard C. "Dick" Belloli Sr.

July 10, 1935 - March 7, 2021