{"id":199917,"date":"2026-03-13T14:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199917"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:24:52","slug":"bradley-celestino-pecchenino-1929-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199917","title":{"rendered":"Bradley Celestino Pecchenino\u00a01929 – 2026\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angels Camp, CA…Bradley Celestino Pecchenino\u00a0 January 16, 1929- March 10, 2026.\u00a0 Bradley Celestino Pecchenino passed away peacefully surrounded by loved ones at the age of 97 in Merced, California.\u00a0 He was born in Sonora, California to Celestino and Lillian Pecchenino.\u00a0 After graduating from college,\u00a0 Bradley\u00a0 was drafted\u00a0 into the US Army in 1950. Bradley was a Korean War Combat Veteran achieving the rank of sergeant First Class in the Second Infantry Battalion. Bradley was a squad leader on the front lines for two years.<\/p>\n

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He met the love of his life Wilma Jean Riedel and they married in 1953. Brad and Wilma were long time residents of Angels Camp. They operated\u00a0 Brad\u2019s Quality Meats in Altaville for over 40 years.\u00a0 They raised their family in Angels and were very active in the community, always looking to help out where needed.\u00a0 His hobbies included gardening, woodworking, racing homing pigeons.\u00a0 He enjoyed visits with his grandchildren and great grandchildren. He relocated to Merced about 15 years ago where he became an avid reader enjoying Louis Lamour stories and many westerns and mysteries.<\/p>\n

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We are grateful to his caregivers Jennett, Alma, Lupe, Eleanor and Eva for their enduring love and outstanding care in recent years.\u00a0 Thanks to Hinds Hospice for their expertise.<\/p>\n

He is survived by his brother Leonhardt and sister Celestine (Sheldon) and sons Bart (Julie), Dominic (Marianne), and Garth (Michelle) and his 7 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

In lieu of flowers please make donations to: Hinds Hospice Life Care 410 West Main Street Ste A Merced, CA 95340<\/p>\n

There will be a Rosary Recited at 1030 followed by\u00a0 Mass of Christian Burial\u00a0 to celebrate Bradley\u2019s life at Saint Patrick\u2019s Catholic Church Church Angels Camp March 21st at 10:30 am and a reception to follow at\u00a0 the Parish Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angels Camp, CA…Bradley Celestino Pecchenino\u00a0 January 16, 1929- March 10, 2026.\u00a0 Bradley Celestino Pecchenino passed away peacefully surrounded by loved ones at the age of 97 in Merced, California.\u00a0 He was born in Sonora, California to Celestino and Lillian Pecchenino.\u00a0 After graduating from college,\u00a0 Bradley\u00a0 was drafted\u00a0 into the US Army in 1950. Bradley was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angels-camp","category-featured","category-news","category-obituaries","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Brad-Pecchenino.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199919,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199917\/revisions\/199919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}