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Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, January 16, 2016 from 9:30 to 11:00 AM, followed immediately by a Funeral Service in the chapel of the funeral home at 11:00 AM.
Aldo Fabbro, age 88, of Wayne, passed away on Monday, January 11, 2016.
Born in New York City, he was raised in the Bronx where he graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1943. He went on to City College where he earned his bachelors degree in engineering. While attending City College, Aldo took a year off from school to serve in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1945. He later graduated from New York University with a master’s degree in engineering.
Aldo met his wife Vilma (nee Marcolina) in 1949 while at a fundraiser for the Bronx Rebels baseball team on which Aldo played catcher. They fell in love, eventually marrying in 1953 at Holy Cross Church in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, PA. After living initially for four years in Hackensack, Aldo and Vilma moved to Wayne where they remained in the same home for the past fifty-nine years.
After beginning his engineering career with Curtiss Wright Corporation in 1953, Aldo soon joined Reaction Motors, Inc. (RMI) where he helped design the liquid fueled rocket engines for the first hypersonic aircraft, the X-15. In the 1970’s he returned to Curtiss Wright where he remained until retiring in 1993. In his spare time, Aldo was a Master Gardener and also enjoyed playing golf.
Surviving is Aldo’s beloved wife of sixty-two years, Vilma; dear son Richard and wife Cecilia of Scarsdale, NY; dear daughters: Janet and husband Robert Pescinski of Hillsborough, NJ, and Suzanne and husband Donald Knezick of Columbus, NJ; and seven cherished grandchildren: Adriana, Rebecca, Janina, Krystian, Marcus, Thomas, and Steven. He was predeceased by his sister Yole Martin.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Aldo’s name are asked to consider St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 (www.stjude.org).
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, January 16, 2016 from 9:30 to 11:00 AM, followed immediately by a Funeral Service in the chapel of the funeral home at 11:00 AM.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, January 16, 2016 from 9:30 to 11:00 AM, followed immediately by a Funeral Service in the chapel of the funeral home at 11:00 AM.
Aldo Fabbro, age 88, of Wayne, passed away on Monday, January 11, 2016.
Born in New York City, he was raised in the Bronx where he graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1943. He went on to City College where he earned his bachelors degree in engineering. While attending City College, Aldo took a year off from school to serve in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1945. He later graduated from New York University with a master’s degree in engineering.
Aldo met his wife Vilma (nee Marcolina) in 1949 while at a fundraiser for the Bronx Rebels baseball team on which Aldo played catcher. They fell in love, eventually marrying in 1953 at Holy Cross Church in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, PA. After living initially for four years in Hackensack, Aldo and Vilma moved to Wayne where they remained in the same home for the past fifty-nine years.
After beginning his engineering career with Curtiss Wright Corporation in 1953, Aldo soon joined Reaction Motors, Inc. (RMI) where he helped design the liquid fueled rocket engines for the first hypersonic aircraft, the X-15. In the 1970’s he returned to Curtiss Wright where he remained until retiring in 1993. In his spare time, Aldo was a Master Gardener and also enjoyed playing golf.
Surviving is Aldo’s beloved wife of sixty-two years, Vilma; dear son Richard and wife Cecilia of Scarsdale, NY; dear daughters: Janet and husband Robert Pescinski of Hillsborough, NJ, and Suzanne and husband Donald Knezick of Columbus, NJ; and seven cherished grandchildren: Adriana, Rebecca, Janina, Krystian, Marcus, Thomas, and Steven. He was predeceased by his sister Yole Martin.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Aldo’s name are asked to consider St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 (www.stjude.org).
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