Joe Petitti

PRICE-It is with enormous dismay that the family of Joe Petitti announce his departure from this world and has left for a new. Joe passed from this world to be with our Heavenly Father September 4, 2017 at 5 p.m.
Joe will be proudly and lovingly remembered by his sister, Nelia, her children and grandchildren, his many friends and community individuals, his Daughters Marie Petitti, twins JoLynn and JoAnn Petitti along with JoAnn’s children, his youngest daughter Teresa Petitti and her three children.
Joe’s long established presence, his kind gestures, his funny remarks and assistance to those in need will be greatly missed by so many people who knew him. He had so many very special relationships through-out the city of Price, Utah and the American and Utah horse community. He earned a legacy never to be forgotten.
Joe was blessed to Italian born Migrants, John and Margaret Petitti, April 15, 1927 at 3:25 p.m. in Wattis, Utah. Joe Petitti established determination and legacy in his heart at a very early age by watching and learning from his parents who, after traveling from their homeland of Italy in the early 1920’s, became the proud owners of PETITTI MERCANTILE CO. in Wattis, Utah. John was a proud Store Keeper and Margaret (Marie, the name she preferred to live by) raised chickens so they could sell eggs to their shoppers, assisted in many other ways and eventually becoming a proud House Wife to John and Mother to Joe and his younger sister, Nelia Petitti.
The Petitti family eventually moved to Price, Utah where John and Marie established their homestead in 1936. This homestead would be the land Joe would grow, learn, play, hunt, and eventually develop a vast love, a trust and knowledge of quarter horses. Joe Petitti began his horse breading skills in the early 1980’s. During this time he came to breed and raise a gorgeous dame he named Easy Winds. Easy Winds gave way to a heritage of gildings and mares that would land Joe as an icon in the world of horse breeding and racing. Some of his proudest racers, Bring Me Diamonds, Legacy Lane, Go For Diamonds, Valiant Diamonds and Striking Diamonds just to name a few. It is through these amazing horses, their descendants, breeder assistances, trainers, owners, riders and friends that will forever continue and talk about the legacy left but not forgotten by Joe Petitti.
Family, friends and community individuals are all invited to say fair wells and to remember this man of such fortune and achievement on the 9th day of September, 2017 at 9 a.m. at Mitchell Funeral Home in Price, Utah. Military Honors will follow in the Cliffview Cemetery at 10:00 a.m. After the services all may join for luncheon and social at the Price City South Park located near his beautiful and beloved home in Price, Utah. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are welcome daily and may share memories of Joe online at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net.