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Tailor owned Butler store for 65 years

Even as he was aging and his health was failing, Frank Cicco Sr. continued to work as much as he could at his store, Frank N. Cicco Custom Tailor.

“He worked up until he couldn’t. Most tailors, they don’t retire,” said his son, Larry Cicco of Cranberry Township.

Cicco, 87, of Butler died Friday at the VNA Inpatient Hospice.

He owned his West North Street tailor shop for about 65 years. His grandfather, Fedele Cicco, started the business in 1910 in Butler.

Larry Cicco worked with his father at the store since the early 1980s.

He said his father had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 2013, and the treatments took a toll on his body. He said he and his brother, Frank Cicco Jr., had mostly been running the store for the past year, and their father came in to help out when he could.

Larry Cicco said the business will continue.

He said customers would come from all over the greater Pittsburgh area, and many people who moved out of the area to other states would continue to buy clothing from the store.

His father was the president of the Custom Tailors and Designers Association of America from 1989 to 1990.

Cicco also was active outside the store.

Larry Cicco said his father would provide some donations to programs at the Butler YMCA and Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Butler County, where Larry and his brother are active.

Ray Lassinger, who owns the Mansion in Penn Township and Associated Ceramics in Sarver, said, “They don’t come any finer than Frank. Always a gentleman. And a pretty good golfer.”

Lassinger also bought clothing from Cicco, including an Elvis Presley inspired suit at one time.

Funeral arrangements for Cicco are handled by the Martin Funeral Home, Butler.

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