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Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 from the funeral home then to Saint Marys RC Church, 15 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where at 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Angelina “Bebe” DeGrezia, age 101 passed peacefully at home on Friday, February 12, 2016.
She was born at the family home in Paterson and lived in Paterson for sixty-four years before moving to Wayne in 1978. Bebe graduated from Central High School in Paterson with the Class of 1932. She continued her education at Saint Joseph’s School of Nursing in Paterson where she received her certification as a Registered Nurse in 1935.
Bebe worked as a Registered Nurse for Saint Josephs Hospital in Paterson for many years. She also had several fondly remembered years working at the Van Dyk Nursing Home in Ridgewood before retiring in 1980.
She was a member of the Nurses Association Alumni of Saint Josephs Hospital, a former parishioner of Saint Anthonys RC Church in Paterson, a former parishioner of Saint Georges RC Church in Paterson and their Rosary Society, and was currently a parishioner of Saint Marys RC Church in Pompton Lakes.
As a young girl in Paterson she spied a cute barber at the local barber shop. She would repeatedly walk past the window to sneak a peak at this cute man until he realized what was going on. They met, dated, and Frank had to wait three years to marry Bebe as she was determined to be a nurse for at least that long before she married.
Frank proposed marriage on Valentine’s Day of 1938 and they married on September 18, 1938 at Saint Anthony’s RC Church in Paterson. They were truly in love, were always holding hands, hugging each other from behind, and even at age 80 Bebe was seen sitting on Frank’s lap. They had a loving and devoted marriage of sixty-three years before Frank’s passing in 2001.
She will be remembered as a giving, helpful, look for the good in other people, type of person. She was truly a nurse deep down in her heart and always taught that you can get more with a smile than a frown. She could often be heard saying “take the good times when you can,” and loved to sing the song You are My Sunshine.
Bebe was the loving wife of the late Frank DeGrezia (2001); she was the loving mother of Frank DeGrezia and his wife Harriet of South Seaside Park, JoAnn Orzo and her husband Joseph of North Haledon, Linda Kearney and her husband John of Wayne, and Nancy Mustrat and her husband Sam of Wayne; she was the cherished grandmother of eleven grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St Jude Children's Research Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 or the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 from the funeral home then to Saint Marys RC Church, 15 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where at 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 from 4-8 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 from the funeral home then to Saint Marys RC Church, 15 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where at 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Totowa.
Angelina “Bebe” DeGrezia, age 101 passed peacefully at home on Friday, February 12, 2016.
She was born at the family home in Paterson and lived in Paterson for sixty-four years before moving to Wayne in 1978. Bebe graduated from Central High School in Paterson with the Class of 1932. She continued her education at Saint Joseph’s School of Nursing in Paterson where she received her certification as a Registered Nurse in 1935.
Bebe worked as a Registered Nurse for Saint Josephs Hospital in Paterson for many years. She also had several fondly remembered years working at the Van Dyk Nursing Home in Ridgewood before retiring in 1980.
She was a member of the Nurses Association Alumni of Saint Josephs Hospital, a former parishioner of Saint Anthonys RC Church in Paterson, a former parishioner of Saint Georges RC Church in Paterson and their Rosary Society, and was currently a parishioner of Saint Marys RC Church in Pompton Lakes.
As a young girl in Paterson she spied a cute barber at the local barber shop. She would repeatedly walk past the window to sneak a peak at this cute man until he realized what was going on. They met, dated, and Frank had to wait three years to marry Bebe as she was determined to be a nurse for at least that long before she married.
Frank proposed marriage on Valentine’s Day of 1938 and they married on September 18, 1938 at Saint Anthony’s RC Church in Paterson. They were truly in love, were always holding hands, hugging each other from behind, and even at age 80 Bebe was seen sitting on Frank’s lap. They had a loving and devoted marriage of sixty-three years before Frank’s passing in 2001.
She will be remembered as a giving, helpful, look for the good in other people, type of person. She was truly a nurse deep down in her heart and always taught that you can get more with a smile than a frown. She could often be heard saying “take the good times when you can,” and loved to sing the song You are My Sunshine.
Bebe was the loving wife of the late Frank DeGrezia (2001); she was the loving mother of Frank DeGrezia and his wife Harriet of South Seaside Park, JoAnn Orzo and her husband Joseph of North Haledon, Linda Kearney and her husband John of Wayne, and Nancy Mustrat and her husband Sam of Wayne; she was the cherished grandmother of eleven grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to St Jude Children's Research Hospital, PO Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 or the Wayne Memorial First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 would be appreciated.
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