Services Set for Longtime Neighborhood Grocer
HERMOSA BEACH — Funeral services will be held today for longtime neighborhood grocer Frank Boccato, whose tiny market was a community centerpiece for nearly three decades. Boccato, 55, died Sunday of cancer.
Boccato’s customers rallied to assist him and help keep his store stocked when his illness prevented him for working at the market. “People are just devastated,” Hermosa Beach Mayor Robert Benz said last month of the grocer’s absence. “Frank was a guy you could rely on. And many people did.”
Customers told The Times last month that Boccato won the community’s heart by providing jobs for hundreds of local teenagers during his 28 years in business and for routinely slipping free fresh fruit into the shopping bags of senior citizens who he feared were not eating properly.
Services will be held at 11:30 a.m. today at the Chapel of the Risen Christ, Holy Cross Cemetery, 5835 W. Slauson, Culver City, family members said.
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