Charles “Charlie” G. Ruocco, born Nov. 17, 1919, died Jan. 31, 2017.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, one of three siblings to Italian immigrants. The family journeyed to San Francisco then to Redwood City where he learned the barber trade.
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