The family of Antonio "Tony" Ramos announces his passing from this life to eternal peace with Our Lord on September 13, 2024.

Tony was the founder of New England Stone, Granites of America, Georgia Stone; a testament of what can be built and achieved with raw intelligence, God-given talent, and purest passion. The heart of a true artist, the brain of an engineer and inventor, Mr. Ramos began hand carving hundreds of statues before he built his empire.

A titan of the granite industry, Tony hand carved pieces for the Christian Science Church in Boston, MA and the AT&T Building in NYC. Mr. Ramos quarried and fabricated his Kershaw® granite and personally set the first stone of the National WWII Memorial. Tony quarried and cut his granites to build the Mellon tower Philadelphia, PA; 383 Madison Ave., NYC; Time Warner Center, NYC.

A true American Dream, Mr. Ramos was given nothing and built everything. He rose to own 19 granite quarries and build the greatest granite structures of our nation. Tony's legacy is written in stone.

Tony is forever adored by his wife Ann Marie Ajami and their daughter Toni; his daughters Christina Whatmough, Angela Conte of his prior marriage to Christina Vallone.

His daughter Toni is writing his biography and asks that anyone who knew her father contact her to share their story.

His family welcomes all to celebrate Tony's life with Mass at 10:00 A.M. at Our Lady of Fatima Church (1 Fatima Dr. Cumberland, RI 02864) on Friday September 20 followed by a repast.

His family requests donations be made in Mr. Ramos' name to St. Jude's Children's Hospital or Shriner's Children's Hospital in lieu of flowers.