Salvatore Vetri, formerly of Rydal, a retired jeweler and real estate broker, died on November 22 at 87, writes Michael Klein for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Vetri and his wife Barbara were married for 63 years. They moved to Rittenhouse Square after raising their family in Rydal.

Vetri was the father of Marc Vetri, a James Beard Award-winning chef, Risa Vetri Ferman, a Montgomery County Common Pleas Court judge, and Adam Vetri, a Los Angeles-based producer and director.

Vetri owned the Crown Jewels and Dazzles jewelry stores with 35 storefronts and kiosk locations throughout the region.

After he decided to sell the business and retire in 1994, “he just totally ingrained himself in his kids’ lives,” said Jeff Benjamin, Marc Vetri’s business partner.

This included nearly two decades of cooking pre-shift meals for the staff at Vetri’s restaurant and helping with the Vetri Community Partnership nonprofit.

Earlier this year, Marc Vetri and Benjamin opened Pizzeria Salvy at Comcast Technology Center. The eatery is named in his father’s honor and its logo bears a pair of thick-templed glasses, a Sal Vetri trademark.

Read more about Salvatore Vetri in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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