John Gotti

:Alternate use: John Gotti Agnello of Growing Up Gotti

Death

Gotti died of throat cancer at 12:45 PM on June 10, 2002 at the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, to which he had been transferred once the cancer was diagnosed.

Related Topics:
Cancer - June 10 - 2002 - Springfield, Missouri

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Following his death, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York decided that John Gotti would not be permitted a Mass of Christian Burial, or a Funeral Mass before burial. The Chancellor of the Diocese, Father Andrew Vaccari, had said that a Mass for the Dead would be permitted for Gotti at some point after the burial. The family was permitted to have Gotti buried at the mausoleum located at St. John's Cemetery in the Queens, New York. The Catholic Church in the past had denied funeral masses to other mobsters, such as Carmine Galante, and former Gambino boss "Big Paul" Castellano. But unlike Galante and Castellano, Gotti was granted a burial within a Catholic cemetery.

Related Topics:
Roman Catholic - Diocese - Queens, New York - Carmine Galante - "Big Paul" Castellano

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