Anthony L. Tony Dibiasio

Anthony L. (Tony) DiBiasio of Portsmouth, RI, and former "Spy in the Sky" radio and TV traffic and weather reporter, passed away on December 11, 2015 at Rhode Island Hospital. He was the husband of Nancy (Nashka) DiBiasio and the father of Daniel Tony DiBiasio Sr., father-in-law of Josephine DiBiasio, grandfather of Daniel Tony DiBiasio, Jr., Anthony Charles DiBiasio, and uncle to twenty-one nieces and nephews. He was the brother of Ernest DiBiasio, Pauline Forlingieri, Hilda Sabatino, Anita Annette DiBiasio, and Eileen Lee Wilburn.Born May 31, 1937 in Providence, R.I., he was a graduate of Brown University and was an Air Force and Marine Corps veteran. He was a commercial pilot and flight instructor whose flying career began with his first solo flight on St. Patrick's Day 1960. He accumulated more than 13,000 hours of flight time in military and civilian aircraft of many types. He really liked being a pilot and was pretty darn good at ita"most of the time. At other times he was just very lucky. He said that he was fortunate in his life to have done most all the things he had wanted to do. During his lifetime of work until the late-nineties, when he retired, he worked successfully at varied careersa"many simultaneously. They included: Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) Insurance; Cranston City Councilman; owner and chief pilot of the Spy In The Sky Aviation Company and of the Airborne Traffic Watch Company and trafficspy.com; pilot/traffic reporter for several radio and TV stations in three states; freelance writer/photographer with more than 200 articles published in local and national publications; restaurant critic for the Ocean State Business Magazine; radio talk show host on WHJJ and WPRO; weather reporter on WPRI TV12, WLNE TV6 and for WJAR TV 10, adjunct faculty at CCRI, Warwick. He was a past member of Big Brothers of Rhode Island, The National Broadcast Pilots Association, the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), the Providence Art Club, the Chaine des Rotisseurs, and several softball, golf and tennis leagues in RI and AZ. He was a Red Sox sufferer since 1947 and proud of it."I have spent a lifetime making up my mind to be more than the measure of what I thought others could see, It's taking me so long and now that I know I believe all that I do or say is all I ever will be too far and too high and too deep ain't to much to be" (From an old Billy Joe Shaver CW song)Funeral Services will be private.