Hilton Head Island
Joseph John Bellace
1936 — 2020
Joseph Bellace, Telecommunications Analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co, a longtime Little Falls, NJ resident and Hilton Head Island transplant, passed at 84. Growing up in South Philadelphia, Almonesson and Collingswood, NJ, the son of first-generation parents from Sicily, Joe Bellace always valued education. His parents, Rose and John Bellace never got a chance to attend high school, as they needed to work to help their families. Joe graduated Collingswood High School in 1954 and became the first in his family to go to college. After graduating from Bucknell University in 1960 with bachelor's degrees in economics and mechanical engineering, he accepted a position in RCA Corp. 's...