Aldo J. Fortuna

DOVER -- Aldo J. Fortuna of Dover, NH, a retired college professor who was born in Berlin to Louis and Maria Fortuna of 50 Green Street, died quietly on January 14, 2012. He won the Brown Company Scholarship  in 1953 and attended the University of New Hampshire where he earned a BA in English Literature and was given a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship in teaching and took his Master's Degree in English Literature at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. He taught at Loyola, Holy Cross and Southern Illinois Universities.

Aldo left teaching to create a successful sales program for a major optics company and became the international sales manager and  sales for the US military for whom he designed binoculars  that were used by the United States Marine Corps in the seventies.

Aldo retired to Dover to care for his mother until her death in 1994. He continued his literary pursuits and when he died, he was researching and writing on an annotation of James Joyce's "A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".

Aldo was predeceased by his parents and is survived by his wife Beverly of Miami, Fla.; ex wife Diane; sons Demi (Susan), and Davin( Caroline); grandchildren, Matthew, Ely, Edwin all of Stony Brook, NY, and stepdaughter Lydia of Boco Raton, Fla.; brothers Louis (Nancy) of Bonita Springs, Fla., George (Cynthia) of Nashua, NH Albert (Patricia) of Union, Me., and his sister Frances (Joseph) of Dover.

The family is planning a simple service in the spring in his home town of Berlin to honor his final wishes to have his ashes scattered on the graves of his parents.