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December 12, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM Thursday, December 15, 2011 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Albert C. Donofrio, Sr., age 68 of Hackettstown, formerly of Wayne, died Monday, December 12, 2011 at the Morristown Memorial Hospital.
He was born in Paterson, raised and lived in Wayne for many years. He graduated from Wayne Valley High School with the Class of 1962 and learned the Mechanic Trade at Lincoln Technical School in Union. He lived in Harford, PA for a few years, returning to Wayne from 2000 – 2007, before moving to Hackettstown four years ago.
Al was a mechanic his entire working life having originally worked at the D&D Garage in Pompton Lakes and later Wyckoff. He then took a position with the Township of Wayne’s Parks & Recreation Division, as a mechanic, where he worked for thirty years before retiring in 2007. He had a love of working with his hands and fixing just about anything. He was always helping friends, family, and neighbors diagnose problems, get the right parts and fix everything from cars to snow blowers.
He met the love of his life Nancy Keene at Wayne Valley High School. As high school sweethearts Nancy remembers their first date was a row boat ride along the Passaic River. Nancy lived on Peach Way and the Passaic River was just a block away from her childhood home. They fell in love and married on June 24,1967 at Saint James of the Marches RC Church, Totowa. As they honeymooned in Miami Florida, Community Fire Company #1, helped them by knocking down a small home on Park Lane in Wayne and when they returned the purchased a home from Premier Homes in Little Falls. They purchased the four bedroom model on display and Premier built the home on their location. Soon they filled all four bedrooms.
Al was a quiet man with a big heart. He had a dry sense of humor, was extremely patient and tough as nails at the same time. He had a love of the outdoors where he enjoyed his Honda motorcycle, boating, and many years ago a bicycle built for two with a child seat on the back.
Albert was the loving husband of forty-two years to Nancy(Keene) Donofrio; devoted father of Albert Donofrio, Jr and his wife Patti of Spartanburg, S.C., Charles Donofrio of Paterson, Frederick Donofrio and his wife Mary of Wayne; cherished grandfather of five grandchildren; loved brother of Anthony Donofrio of Wayne, Michael Donofrio and his wife Christine of Matthews, N.C., and Anna Marie Basciano of Wayne.
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Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM Thursday, December 15, 2011 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
December 12, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 10 AM Thursday, December 15, 2011 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Memorial Park, Totowa.
Albert C. Donofrio, Sr., age 68 of Hackettstown, formerly of Wayne, died Monday, December 12, 2011 at the Morristown Memorial Hospital.
He was born in Paterson, raised and lived in Wayne for many years. He graduated from Wayne Valley High School with the Class of 1962 and learned the Mechanic Trade at Lincoln Technical School in Union. He lived in Harford, PA for a few years, returning to Wayne from 2000 – 2007, before moving to Hackettstown four years ago.
Al was a mechanic his entire working life having originally worked at the D&D Garage in Pompton Lakes and later Wyckoff. He then took a position with the Township of Wayne’s Parks & Recreation Division, as a mechanic, where he worked for thirty years before retiring in 2007. He had a love of working with his hands and fixing just about anything. He was always helping friends, family, and neighbors diagnose problems, get the right parts and fix everything from cars to snow blowers.
He met the love of his life Nancy Keene at Wayne Valley High School. As high school sweethearts Nancy remembers their first date was a row boat ride along the Passaic River. Nancy lived on Peach Way and the Passaic River was just a block away from her childhood home. They fell in love and married on June 24,1967 at Saint James of the Marches RC Church, Totowa. As they honeymooned in Miami Florida, Community Fire Company #1, helped them by knocking down a small home on Park Lane in Wayne and when they returned the purchased a home from Premier Homes in Little Falls. They purchased the four bedroom model on display and Premier built the home on their location. Soon they filled all four bedrooms.
Al was a quiet man with a big heart. He had a dry sense of humor, was extremely patient and tough as nails at the same time. He had a love of the outdoors where he enjoyed his Honda motorcycle, boating, and many years ago a bicycle built for two with a child seat on the back.
Albert was the loving husband of forty-two years to Nancy(Keene) Donofrio; devoted father of Albert Donofrio, Jr and his wife Patti of Spartanburg, S.C., Charles Donofrio of Paterson, Frederick Donofrio and his wife Mary of Wayne; cherished grandfather of five grandchildren; loved brother of Anthony Donofrio of Wayne, Michael Donofrio and his wife Christine of Matthews, N.C., and Anna Marie Basciano of Wayne.
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