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January 23, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, January 27, 2012 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 10 AM funeral service will be held Saturday, January 28, 2012 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Armando “Art” J. Vitale age 86 of Franklin Lakes, formerly of Wayne, died peacefully on Monday, January 23, 2012 with his daughter Elaine by his side.
He was born and raised in Paterson and graduated from Eastside High School with the Class of 1944. After high school he got a job with the New Era Corporation as a machinist. He made machine parts for IBM and other equipment manufacturers. While working there he was drafted into the US Army and served during the Korean War. Upon completing his military service he once again worked for the New Era Corporation where he spent a total of 25 years working. After he worked as a machinist for the Sandvik Corporation in Fair Lawn before retiring in 1990 from Royal Master Grinders in Oakland.
Always constructing something, Art and his brother bought property next door to each other on Briggs Ave in Wayne. They both built homes on the property helping each other along the way. There were many family barbecue’s and bon fires between the two houses. And some will remember that he raised parakeets in the basement. Art started a nursery on the property which was eventually taken, along with the property the houses were built on, to be the Point View Reservoir in Wayne. Art used to say that during a drought you could still see the foundations they built. After the property was taken he purchased land and built a home in Franklin Lakes where he sold nursery stock from his yard for many years.
He and his late wife Alice(2011) loved to go the local high school footballs games both while their children attended and for many years after. They enjoyed a cup of coffee, a hot dog, and watching Ramapo, Indian Hills and Wayne Hills football for many years. Art was very sociable and loved being with people.
Art married Alice Van Houten on July 23, 1949 at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Paterson. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls and did some horseback riding into Canada. Horses were something Alice was very comfortable with – Armando not so much. They enjoyed sixty-two years of marriage before Alice’s passing last year. He was truly broken hearted when she passed and yearned to be together with her again.
He was the loving father of Joyce A. Riley and her husband John of Bloomsburg, PA, and Elaine M. Kaufman and her husband Benjamin of Hopewell Junction, NY; cherished grandfather of John Riley, Paul Riley and his wife Bryn Benford, David Kaufman and his wife Dianna Chan, Steven Kaufman and his wife Natalie Dolce, and Michael Kaufman; devoted great-grandfather of Gabriella Kaufman; loved brother of Jill Calabrese and her husband Nick of Weeki Wachee, FL, and the late Lena Marino, Joseph, Alex, and Guerino Vitale.
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Friends may visit with the family on Friday, January 27, 2012 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 10 AM funeral service will be held Saturday, January 28, 2012 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
January 23, 2012
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Friday, January 27, 2012 from 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
A 10 AM funeral service will be held Saturday, January 28, 2012 at the funeral home.
Interment will be in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Armando “Art” J. Vitale age 86 of Franklin Lakes, formerly of Wayne, died peacefully on Monday, January 23, 2012 with his daughter Elaine by his side.
He was born and raised in Paterson and graduated from Eastside High School with the Class of 1944. After high school he got a job with the New Era Corporation as a machinist. He made machine parts for IBM and other equipment manufacturers. While working there he was drafted into the US Army and served during the Korean War. Upon completing his military service he once again worked for the New Era Corporation where he spent a total of 25 years working. After he worked as a machinist for the Sandvik Corporation in Fair Lawn before retiring in 1990 from Royal Master Grinders in Oakland.
Always constructing something, Art and his brother bought property next door to each other on Briggs Ave in Wayne. They both built homes on the property helping each other along the way. There were many family barbecue’s and bon fires between the two houses. And some will remember that he raised parakeets in the basement. Art started a nursery on the property which was eventually taken, along with the property the houses were built on, to be the Point View Reservoir in Wayne. Art used to say that during a drought you could still see the foundations they built. After the property was taken he purchased land and built a home in Franklin Lakes where he sold nursery stock from his yard for many years.
He and his late wife Alice(2011) loved to go the local high school footballs games both while their children attended and for many years after. They enjoyed a cup of coffee, a hot dog, and watching Ramapo, Indian Hills and Wayne Hills football for many years. Art was very sociable and loved being with people.
Art married Alice Van Houten on July 23, 1949 at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Paterson. They honeymooned at Niagara Falls and did some horseback riding into Canada. Horses were something Alice was very comfortable with – Armando not so much. They enjoyed sixty-two years of marriage before Alice’s passing last year. He was truly broken hearted when she passed and yearned to be together with her again.
He was the loving father of Joyce A. Riley and her husband John of Bloomsburg, PA, and Elaine M. Kaufman and her husband Benjamin of Hopewell Junction, NY; cherished grandfather of John Riley, Paul Riley and his wife Bryn Benford, David Kaufman and his wife Dianna Chan, Steven Kaufman and his wife Natalie Dolce, and Michael Kaufman; devoted great-grandfather of Gabriella Kaufman; loved brother of Jill Calabrese and her husband Nick of Weeki Wachee, FL, and the late Lena Marino, Joseph, Alex, and Guerino Vitale.
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