From Canon City Record Nov. 4, 1998:
Helen M. Trabucco
Helen M. Trabucco, 82, formerly of Florence, died Nov. 2, 1998, in Phoenix, Ariz. She was born Jan. 8, 1916 in Canon City, to James Thomas and Florence M. (Chilvers) McDowell.
Mrs. Trabucco owned and operated Helen’s Kitchen in Florence. She worked as a cook at the Capri Restaurant and several other restaurants in the area. Meris Trabucoo loved cooking, fishing and the Denver Bronco’s.
She especially loved to go dancing and do the jitterbug.
Mrs. Trabucco was Catholic by faith. She was a devoted mother and grandmother who loved cooking family meals that were usually large enough to feed an entire neighbornood.
She is survived by children: Nina Billinger, Joann Graham, Harley McDowell; grandchildren: Debbie, Pamela, Jeffrey, Elizabeth, Jennifer, Angela, Martin, Michelle, Renee; great-grandchildren Johnathan, Melony, Ian, Emily, Haile, Luke; and great-great-grandchildren Sum-mer and Elijah.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Pete Trabucco.
Visitation will be held from noon to 12:45 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 5. Graveside services will follow at 1 p.m. at Union Highland Cemetery in Florence with Father Michael Murray, OSB, officiating.
Services are under the direction of Charles Anthony Funeral Home in Florence.

TRABUCCO: Italian: metonymic occupational name for a trapper, from Old Italian trabucco ‘trap’, ‘pitfall’, Sicilian trabbuccu ‘(mouse)trap’. Source: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press

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Burial: 09 Mar 1976, Lot 1078 Block 70

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He had rheumatoid arthritis at age 60. And he had a heart attack.

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The Historical Research Center Family Name History - Trabucco
The origin of the Italian surname Trabucco should be placed between the fifteenth and sixteenth century; the surname in fact is the same name of a weapon, the “trabucco” or the “blunderbuss” which was invented and used around that period. The final letter “o” of the surname denotes the plural form,illustrating the process of the surname having been passed on from one generation to the next. The “trabucco” does not exist anymore in Italian, instead is used the term “trabocchetto”, which has the same origin, plus the suffix “-etto” and which means “trap” or “pitfall”. The surname Trabucco,deriving from the name of a weapon, indicates that the original bearer was a soldier, or maybe a hunter, and the name must be considered or occupational origin. In the Middle Ages the pattern serving as a basis for fixed Italian surnames was based on paternity., the name of the father being the reference for identification, but before the advent of a structured system of surnames, a man was most conveniently identified by his occupation or trade.
As the closest variant to the surname Trabucco, the “Dizionario Storico Blasonico”, a compilation of the Italian nobility, mentions two families by the name of Trabucco, one from Sicily and one from Piedmont. The earliest references to the surnames, mention the family from Piedmont as rich landownersin the fourteenth century. Later, one Gian-Antonio di Bernardino Trabuccowas the minister for the finances of the kingdom of Savoy.
BLAZON OF ARMS: Per pale counterfessy argent and gules; overall a pale of the first; as chief or charged with an eagle displayed sable.
CREST: The eagle as in the arms.
ORIGON: Italy15

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