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July 7, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 8:30 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley R.C. Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Antoinette Bruno, age 90 of Wayne, died peacefully on Sunday, July 7, 2013.
Antoinette was born and raised in Newark, NJ, the second of four children of Anthony and Anna Innacola.
As a young woman she worked as a seamstress for J&K Company in Newark. Antoinette met a handsome and enchanting young man named Dominick Bruno and, following their marriage on November 28, 1942, they moved to Nutley where they soon welcomed and raised their daughter Annette and their son Donald. Together, the family lived in Nutley for forty years until, following Dominick’s retirement, Antoinette and Dominick relocated to sunny, warm Margate FL and called that home for the next twenty years, from 1984 to 2004. The loving couple moved back to NJ, settling in Wayne where Antoinette had remained until the present. Dominick passed away in 2006. Together, He and Antoinette enjoyed 64 years of cherished matrimony together.
Antoinette’s love of cooking was a wonderful blessing to all of her family who enjoyed the delicious food she prepared. She was especially appreciated for her fish recipes and everyone loved Mommas Italian cookies and cheesecake. Her recipes will live on through her daughter Annette. If she wasn’t cooking, Antoinette also enjoyed knitting and, once again, her family was often the lucky recipients of the sweaters and baby blankets she made for her adored grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Knitting was an activity that could easily be combined with one of her other pastimes – rooting and cheering for her beloved New York Yankees. An avid fan of America’s team, Antoinette could often be heard asking or telling her kids things like “put the game on,” or, “what’s the score of the Yankee game,” or what time is the game on?” She especially loved Derek Jeter and former Yankee Nick Swisher! Who could blame her? Antoinette also missed very few episodes of “Days of Our Lives” and she got a kick out of watching “Housewives of NJ” because, after-all, she was a Jersey girl herself and she liked seeing familiar places in Jersey on the show. When Antoinette got out of her house, it was usually to attend a Bingo party or a tricky tray event or any other benefit fundraiser that St. Joseph’s Wayne Hospital was sponsoring. While living in Florida, she almost single-handedly helped that state’s lottery business increase its revenue every year. She loved to buy lottery tickets and she also loved going to casinos.
Antoinette’s easy going, accommodating demeanor and honest approach to life will be missed by all who loved her.
Surviving are her daughter Annette Guardabasco and husband Nicholas of Wayne, and her son Donald Bruno and wife Cynthia of Goose Creek, SC; six grandchildren: Michael, Michele, Nicholas, Jessica, Danielle, and Samantha; ten great-grandchildren: Jenna, Lance, Logan, Brayden, Amelia, Jack, Shayne, Kyle, Mila, and Michael; two sisters: Louise Pallanti of Wayne and Joyce Bollotta and husband Frank of North Miami Beach, FL. She was predeceased by her beloved husband of 64 years, Dominick in 2006, and her sister Florence Meola.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 8:30 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley R.C. Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
July 7, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 8:30 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of the Valley R.C. Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where at 9:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Antoinette Bruno, age 90 of Wayne, died peacefully on Sunday, July 7, 2013.
Antoinette was born and raised in Newark, NJ, the second of four children of Anthony and Anna Innacola.
As a young woman she worked as a seamstress for J&K Company in Newark. Antoinette met a handsome and enchanting young man named Dominick Bruno and, following their marriage on November 28, 1942, they moved to Nutley where they soon welcomed and raised their daughter Annette and their son Donald. Together, the family lived in Nutley for forty years until, following Dominick’s retirement, Antoinette and Dominick relocated to sunny, warm Margate FL and called that home for the next twenty years, from 1984 to 2004. The loving couple moved back to NJ, settling in Wayne where Antoinette had remained until the present. Dominick passed away in 2006. Together, He and Antoinette enjoyed 64 years of cherished matrimony together.
Antoinette’s love of cooking was a wonderful blessing to all of her family who enjoyed the delicious food she prepared. She was especially appreciated for her fish recipes and everyone loved Mommas Italian cookies and cheesecake. Her recipes will live on through her daughter Annette. If she wasn’t cooking, Antoinette also enjoyed knitting and, once again, her family was often the lucky recipients of the sweaters and baby blankets she made for her adored grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Knitting was an activity that could easily be combined with one of her other pastimes – rooting and cheering for her beloved New York Yankees. An avid fan of America’s team, Antoinette could often be heard asking or telling her kids things like “put the game on,” or, “what’s the score of the Yankee game,” or what time is the game on?” She especially loved Derek Jeter and former Yankee Nick Swisher! Who could blame her? Antoinette also missed very few episodes of “Days of Our Lives” and she got a kick out of watching “Housewives of NJ” because, after-all, she was a Jersey girl herself and she liked seeing familiar places in Jersey on the show. When Antoinette got out of her house, it was usually to attend a Bingo party or a tricky tray event or any other benefit fundraiser that St. Joseph’s Wayne Hospital was sponsoring. While living in Florida, she almost single-handedly helped that state’s lottery business increase its revenue every year. She loved to buy lottery tickets and she also loved going to casinos.
Antoinette’s easy going, accommodating demeanor and honest approach to life will be missed by all who loved her.
Surviving are her daughter Annette Guardabasco and husband Nicholas of Wayne, and her son Donald Bruno and wife Cynthia of Goose Creek, SC; six grandchildren: Michael, Michele, Nicholas, Jessica, Danielle, and Samantha; ten great-grandchildren: Jenna, Lance, Logan, Brayden, Amelia, Jack, Shayne, Kyle, Mila, and Michael; two sisters: Louise Pallanti of Wayne and Joyce Bollotta and husband Frank of North Miami Beach, FL. She was predeceased by her beloved husband of 64 years, Dominick in 2006, and her sister Florence Meola.
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