Passings: Gianluca Marcolini
Gianluca Marcolini, 41, of Grazzana, Italy-based Marcolini Marmi S.P.A., of injuries sustained in a plane crash near Tollara, Madagascar, on Oct. 26. The crash of the chartered twin-engine Cessna 425, shortly after takeoff, killed five other people, including Italian stone merchants Angelo Corvini, 53, of block-trading company P.N.S. and Elvezio Domeniconi, 56.
Marcolini is survived by his spouse, Ballini Chiara, an architect, and their three-year-old son Giovanni Marcolini. Services were held on Oct. 31 at the church of Santa Elisabetta in Grezzana, with entombment at the family grave in the Grezzana cemetery.