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- Joe Negri died on May 30 at age 99 in Scott Township, Pennsylvania.
- He was known as Handyman Negri and appeared in 331 episodes of PBS’s Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood from 1968 to 2001.
- Negri taught guitar for 50 years at Pittsburgh universities, performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Tony Bennett and Wynton Marsalis, and is survived by wife Joan and daughters Lisa, Laurie and Gia, with funeral donations directed to Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
