Salvatore J. “Sam” Ciociola, a retired electrician and mechanic who later founded a waterfront line handling company, died Sunday of complications from an infection at his Lutherville home. He was 95.

The son of Salvatore J. Ciociola, a businessman who owned the Haven Inn, and Congetta Ciociola, a homemaker, who were Italian immigrants, Salvatore Joseph Ciociola was born in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown. He was a graduate of St. Mary's School and drove a truck before entering the Army during World War II.

After his father's death, he was discharged from the Army to support his widowed mother and worked for the old Baltimore Transit Co. operating trackless trolleys.

He then became an electrician at Edgewood Arsenal and after joining the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 28, he worked in commercial construction for Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Riggs Distler & Co.

After the demise of IBEW Local 28, he returned to Edgewood Arsenal, and in the early 1960s, he sold the Haven Inn.

Mr. Ciociola joined the International Longshoremen's Association and worked as a longshoreman at the Dundalk Marine Terminal and later as a mechanic for John T. Clark & Son of Maryland before retiring in 1990.

He then established All Marine Moorings, a line handling company, donating his services to the Operation Sail program in Baltimore harbor, family members said.

In 2000, he founded Baltimore Line Handling Co. which he operated until 2014. The business is now operated by his daughter, Shawn Ciociola of Lutherville.

Mr. Ciociola was an avid fan of the Baltimore Colts and had been a season ticket holder at old Memorial Stadium. He also enjoyed traveling and had visited Italy six times, family members said.

He was a communicant for 59 years of Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church, Baltimore and Ware avenues, Towson, where a Mass of Christian burial will be offered at 10 a.m. today.

In addition to his daughter, Mr. Ciociola is survived by his wife of 66 years, the former Mitzy Mrozinski; three sons, Francis Ciociola of Baltimore, Patrick Ciociola of Phoenix, Baltimore County, and Christopher Ciociola of Timonium; eight grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren.

—?Frederick N. Rasmussen