
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, July 10, 1990                   TAG: 9007100220
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: NEDERLAND, TEXAS                                LENGTH: Short

YOUNGEST OF MALE QUADRUPLETS DIES

Bernard Perricone, the youngest of the world's first documented male quadruplets to survive, died at age 60.

Perricone died Sunday at a Nederland hospital after a heart attack, said his brother Donald.

Bernard, Donald, Anthony and Carl Perricone were born Halloween night, 1929, in a Beaumont farmhouse without electricity. Their parents, immigrants from Italy, already had five sons and had hoped for a girl.

The Perricone quads were only the second documented quadruplets in the country.

All four served in the same unit of the Army for seven months in Korea after receiving special permission arranged by then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson. Army policy normally prohibits brothers from serving in the same unit.

by CNB