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Friends may visit with the family from 4-9 PM on Thursday, January 5, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:15 AM from the funeral home on Friday, January 6, 2016 then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church (directly across the street from the funeral home) where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
Antoinette “Nettie” M. Napoli (DeLucia) age 89, of Wayne for over sixty years, passed Friday, December 30, 2016.
She was born in New York City and when she was a child the family moved to 2304 East 14th Street in Brooklyn. She graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School with the Class of 1945. Once out of high school Nettie worked for a short time as a secretary at a Wall Street firm. She then worked in a secretarial capacity for the Java Pacific Steamship Company’s New York offices as well.
Nettie was introduced to a cute man named Nunzio “Paul” Napoli by one of her high school friends, Anita, whose husband had a friend from his military service days that was searching for a “nice girl.” They had dinner at Anita’s home and it was love at first sight. They dated for only six months before Paul proposed marriage. Nettie and Paul married on June 14, 1952 at Our Lady of Grace Church in Brooklyn and honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York. After they married Paul and Nettie moved to Passaic, New Jersey for a short time and then settled into a home on Thomas Terrace in Wayne where they began raising their family. They had a loving and devoted marriage of only twenty years before Paul’s passing in 1972.
After Paul’s passing Nettie found herself as a single mom with three children. She quickly found work at the US Post Office in the Mountain View Section of Wayne having later worked again as a secretary for the Yardley Fragrance Company in Totowa. Nettie again changed professions and became an Independent Representative for the Nova Energy Saving Products Company in Totowa. She sold things like energy saving shower heads to commercial establishments like hotels as well as to individual consumers. Her strong work ethic and dedication to her family enabled her to provide not only food and clothing for her three children but she was also able to put them through college as well.
Nettie will be remembered as a thoughtful, generous, caring person whose delicious cannoli’s can never be duplicated. She loved dancing with her husband Paul and kept it up for many years after his passing. She also had a special place in her heart for animals. She was a long time supporter of the FOWA (Friends of Wayne Animals) and loved her two rescue dogs Patton and Trixie with all her heart. A true nature lover she also supported the Laurelwood Arboretum in Wayne for many years as well. Nettie was a long time member and past-president of the Wayne Women’s Club back when they initiated special parking consideration for handicapped individuals and began the townships recycling program. She also cherished the many friendships she made at the Parents without Partners organization in Wayne. She also loved to attend plays at the Papermill Playhouse and visits to the Borgata Hotel in Atlantic City.
Nettie was the loving wife of the late Nunzio “Paul” Napoli (1972); devoted mother of Celeste Jakubek of Wawayanda, NY and her late husband Edward, Paul Napoli and his wife Roberta of Rockaway Township, and Diane Errichiello and her husband Dennis, DMD of Cliffside Park; cherished grandmother of Nicholas Napoli and his wife Paula and Michael Napoli and his wife Christina; much loved great-grandmother of Isabella, Owen, and Paige Napoli; loved sister of Liberato DeLucia and his wife Nancy of Yarmouth Port, MA, the late Louisa Sheldon and her surviving husband Herbert, and Anna Ramsey of Wyckoff and her late husband James.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-9 PM on Thursday, January 5, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:15 AM from the funeral home on Friday, January 6, 2016 then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church (directly across the street from the funeral home) where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-9 PM on Thursday, January 5, 2017 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:15 AM from the funeral home on Friday, January 6, 2016 then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church (directly across the street from the funeral home) where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
Antoinette “Nettie” M. Napoli (DeLucia) age 89, of Wayne for over sixty years, passed Friday, December 30, 2016.
She was born in New York City and when she was a child the family moved to 2304 East 14th Street in Brooklyn. She graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School with the Class of 1945. Once out of high school Nettie worked for a short time as a secretary at a Wall Street firm. She then worked in a secretarial capacity for the Java Pacific Steamship Company’s New York offices as well.
Nettie was introduced to a cute man named Nunzio “Paul” Napoli by one of her high school friends, Anita, whose husband had a friend from his military service days that was searching for a “nice girl.” They had dinner at Anita’s home and it was love at first sight. They dated for only six months before Paul proposed marriage. Nettie and Paul married on June 14, 1952 at Our Lady of Grace Church in Brooklyn and honeymooned at Niagara Falls, New York. After they married Paul and Nettie moved to Passaic, New Jersey for a short time and then settled into a home on Thomas Terrace in Wayne where they began raising their family. They had a loving and devoted marriage of only twenty years before Paul’s passing in 1972.
After Paul’s passing Nettie found herself as a single mom with three children. She quickly found work at the US Post Office in the Mountain View Section of Wayne having later worked again as a secretary for the Yardley Fragrance Company in Totowa. Nettie again changed professions and became an Independent Representative for the Nova Energy Saving Products Company in Totowa. She sold things like energy saving shower heads to commercial establishments like hotels as well as to individual consumers. Her strong work ethic and dedication to her family enabled her to provide not only food and clothing for her three children but she was also able to put them through college as well.
Nettie will be remembered as a thoughtful, generous, caring person whose delicious cannoli’s can never be duplicated. She loved dancing with her husband Paul and kept it up for many years after his passing. She also had a special place in her heart for animals. She was a long time supporter of the FOWA (Friends of Wayne Animals) and loved her two rescue dogs Patton and Trixie with all her heart. A true nature lover she also supported the Laurelwood Arboretum in Wayne for many years as well. Nettie was a long time member and past-president of the Wayne Women’s Club back when they initiated special parking consideration for handicapped individuals and began the townships recycling program. She also cherished the many friendships she made at the Parents without Partners organization in Wayne. She also loved to attend plays at the Papermill Playhouse and visits to the Borgata Hotel in Atlantic City.
Nettie was the loving wife of the late Nunzio “Paul” Napoli (1972); devoted mother of Celeste Jakubek of Wawayanda, NY and her late husband Edward, Paul Napoli and his wife Roberta of Rockaway Township, and Diane Errichiello and her husband Dennis, DMD of Cliffside Park; cherished grandmother of Nicholas Napoli and his wife Paula and Michael Napoli and his wife Christina; much loved great-grandmother of Isabella, Owen, and Paige Napoli; loved sister of Liberato DeLucia and his wife Nancy of Yarmouth Port, MA, the late Louisa Sheldon and her surviving husband Herbert, and Anna Ramsey of Wyckoff and her late husband James.
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