Angela Rose Centrelli (Moschetto) age 100, passed in the comfort of her home on her 100th birthday, March 28, 2018.

In 1918, the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution established Prohibition. Because of WWI women were scheduled to march in the New York City Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. The US Congress approved Daylight Savings Time, the Red Baron was killed, and in Paterson, New Jersey Angela Centrelli was born in the family home at 356 E27th Street in Paterson to Frank and Rose Moschetto. When Angela was just eight years old her mother passed away and she, with her two sisters were sent to live at the Mary Help of Christians Home in Haledon, New Jersey. Her brother Patsy was sent to live with an aunt. After about four years her father signed the girls out and brought them home along with their brother.  Now reunited, Angela, at age twelve, was given responsibilities of cleaning the house, cooking, and looking after  her two sisters, and brother while her father and uncle were working at their shoe repair shop.  During her formative years she saw one of the neighborhood boys dressed for his first communion and thought to herself that he was cute.  That boy, Richard Centrelli Jr., and Angela would begin dating in their late teens and married on June 21, 1942 at St. Joseph's Church in Paterson.  They honeymooned at the Taft Hotel in New York City.  Once married Angela continued to live with her father and siblings as Richard in the US military was sent to do battle in the Pacific seeing action on the island of Tinian and others in the Mariana islands. During WWII Angela worked at the Barbizon Company on River Street in Paterson where she started sewing women’s slips and soon she was sewing parachutes for the war effort. During his four years of service they were able to spend three months together when she joined Richard in Mississippi.  After the war Richard was discharged from the service and they first resided in a small apartment in the Bunker Hill area of Paterson, then moving to 56 Sassafras Street in Paterson, NJ. A few years later the couple purchased a 3 family home on North York Street just a few doors away. Several years later they purchased a new home in Wayne. NJ.

Angela will be remembered as a loving person who had many friends, never had a bad word to say about anyone. She loved people, was happy, always smiling, and left a legacy of making other’s feel good.  She was meticulous about her appearance, went to the beauty parlor once a week, always had on a dress and makeup before she would venture out. She was an excellent Italian cook whose pasta, sauce, and meatballs will never be forgotten.

Angela was the loving wife of the late Richard Centrelli Jr., (2015); devoted mother of Richard P. Centrelli and his wife Sheryl of Wayne, and Diane Bush and her husband Robert of Wayne; dear sister of the late Lillian Larusso, Pat Moschetto, and Connie Chianchiano; cherished grandmother of Danielle Bush, Lynn (George) Mcteague,  Kimberly (Kevin) Lonsinger, and Kristy Centrelli-Fernand; much loved great-grandmother of Evan, Emma, Cole, Isabella, Alexandra, Ryan, and Connor; she was dearly loved by several nieces and nephews.