Portage County laid to rest local journalist and historian Roger Di Paolo who died June 18 after a two-year battle with cancer. Family and friends filled the Kent State Newman Center on Thursday afternoon to honor Di Paolo’s life and celebrate his legacy and accomplishments.
Following the funeral mass, local residents gathered along state Route 59 on lawn chairs and grassy yards to watch the funeral procession. Two Clydesdale horses — the largest in Portage County, according to the funeral director — pulled Di Paolo’s casket inside an 1875 hearse from the Rockford Carriage Company, now owned by Billow Funeral Homes.
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