Rose Barbero

Rose Barbero
Longtime Chambersburg resident and well-known
Italian baker Rose Piccirilli Barbero created recipes for
Italian baked goods at Barbero's Bakery on Conrad Street ,
moved to Trenton from Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1938 when she
was 23 to marry Angelo Barbero. The couple lived on Conrad
Street for more than 60 years before moving to Hamilton.
Born in Montemarano, a village in Southern Italy near Naples,
Barbero came to the United States during the Great Depression.
While in Brooklyn, she worked as a seamstress and manager in
the New York City garment district.

After coming to Trenton, she worked in the city's dress shops
before taking over as the corporate secretary and cook of Barbero
Bakery Inc. when her husband took over the family business in
the late 1950s, her grandson said. ''She was involved in many
of the duties at the bakery,'' her grandson Steven Spirito
said. ''She worked the counter, baked menu items and came up
with new types of specialties. In essence, she became the
matriarch of the bakery.''She is credited with being one of
the creative influences behind the bakery's original Italian
goods. Her husband Angelo served as president of the popular
bakery and her brother-in-law, Gerard Barbero, served as vice
president for many years. The bakery, which still has its
plant at 61 Conrad St., now has two satellite stores in
Hamilton.
Angelo Barbero took over the family business in the early
1960s as its third generation owner. A son, Gerard A. Barbero
of Robbinsville, now runs the still- thriving business.
Angelo and Rose Barbero moved to Hamilton in 2001 but their
heart would always be in Chambersburg, Spirito said.''Their
life was Conrad Street and the bakery in Chambersburg,'' he said.

UPDATE
Noel Vento adds........
As a young kid, one of my tasks was going to Barbero's to
get a dozen "torpedo" rolls for my mother. Now I live in
California, there is no such thing as a "torpedo" roll.
Nothing even close! Thank you Rose for the memories!
Your bakery "rocks on" in my childhood memories!