Raymond Long John Martorano

Raymond “Long John” Martorano spent his life in Philadelphia, known to family and acquaintances as a husband and father who belonged to a large local family. Public memorial notices list his wife Evelyn (nee Pizza) and children George, Maryann Ross, Dolores Ferrari and Roxann Greenstone, and show that he was a grandfather and great‑grandfather whose family asked that donations be made in memory of his granddaughter Nicolina Ross. Those family details form the clearest, humane traces left in the public record: a man whose life included close family ties and whose loss prompted private funeral arrangements and condolences from relatives and friends.

In public accounts Martorano also appears as a long‑time local figure with decades of involvement in the city’s working‑class neighborhoods. Reporting and historical accounts describe him as an older member of Philadelphia’s organized‑crime milieu and note prior criminal convictions and longtime associations; those aspects are part of the documented record but do not define the everyday human relationships noted by his family’s obituary notice. The family‑published memorial framed him first in familial terms and arranged a private viewing and funeral, asking that those wishing to honor him consider donations to a charitable organization.

Because public sources emphasize different parts of his life — family remembrances on one hand and law‑enforcement and news accounts on the other — a respectful remembrance centers the verifiable human details: a husband of Evelyn, a father and grandfather, and a Philadelphia man whose passing in early 2002 was noted by both his family and by local press. For those who knew him as kin, those relationships and memories are the most lasting legacy. The public record is limited in personal anecdotes and private remembrances beyond the family notice; what is clear is that Raymond Martorano’s life mattered to people who called him husband, father and grandfather, and that his family chose to grieve and remember him in private while sharing these family names with the community.