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September 8, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, September 11, 2011 from 2-6 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Monday, September 12, 2011 at the funeral home. Entombment at the East Ridgelawn Mausoleum in Clifton will follow.
Barbara Ann Descarfino (nee Levich), age 61 of Forest Lakes in Byram Township, New Jersey died peacefully on Thursday, September 08, 2011.
Barbara grew up in Clifton and graduated from Clifton High School with the class of 1967. It was right around that time when one of her school mates saw her at the Dairy Queen in Garfield and invited her to join him at the Clifton High School football game. Phil Descarfino felt like the luckiest guy in Clifton that day, as he cruised to the game in his Pontiac GTO with his new girlfriend. They were married on April 13, 1969 and enjoyed a honeymoon at Elbow Beach, Bermuda. There were more than three hundred newlywed couples there, all of which had been waiting for Lent to end so they could get married, including Barbara and Phil.
They first settled in Lyndhurst, then Clifton, before moving to Forest Lakes in Byram Township in 1977. Together they raised their daughter Christine there. Their family was complete with the addition of their faithful cats; Mugsy and Daisy.
Barbara had worked for Nabisco in East Hanover for a period of about ten years, retiring in 1988. She had been a secretary there, and also worked in the retail shop.
During their marriage, Barbara and Phil vacationed regularly to the Bahamas, Florida, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Thomas, and many more fabulous destinations. Barbara’s favorite place to visit, above all the others, was the Stroudsmoor Country Inn in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. With her Parkinson’s Disease advancing in recent years, the Stroudsmoor Inn was one of the few destinations she could still travel to and each time she left to come home, she would shed a tear imagining that it just might be her last time there.
Barbara enjoyed her home too and she was an excellent cook of both Italian and Slovakian foods. Her husband was a skilled gardener and he kept her supplied with plenty of fresh ingredients. On a few occasions he grew so much zucchini that she baked zucchini bread until it seemed to be up to their ears, but it was delicious none the less. She would always be feeding her family well and at Christmas time she would bake her famous cookies to share with everyone.
Her life changed with the arrival of her granddaughter, Emily Rose. Emily brought endless smiles to Barbara’s face and Barbara spoiled her at every turn. She simply adored her beautiful Emily Rose and there’s no question that her granddaughter brought her much needed strength and energy during her long struggle with Parkinson’s. Emily Rose was truly the light of her life for the past several years and brought her much needed joy.
Barbara is survived by her loving husband of forty two years; Philip, her daughter; Christine Bradford and her husband Brian of Oak Ridge, NJ, her granddaughter Emily Rose Bradford, two brothers; Thomas Levich of Wayne and Robert Levich of Las Vegas, Nevada, her aunt Marge Potosnack of Clifton, three devoted sister-in-laws; Joanne Gross and her husband Steven of Florida, Maryann Descarfino of Clifton, and Deborah Sessa and her husband Richard of Roseland, and her nephews and niece.
Donations in Barbara’s memory to support Parkinson’s disease research would be greatly appreciated. Please consider the National Parkinson Foundation, Gift Processing Center, PO Box 5018, Hagerstown, MD 21741-5018 or visit www.parkinson.org
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, September 11, 2011 from 2-6 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Monday, September 12, 2011 at the funeral home. Entombment at the East Ridgelawn Mausoleum in Clifton will follow.
September 8, 2011
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Sunday, September 11, 2011 from 2-6 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 10 AM on Monday, September 12, 2011 at the funeral home. Entombment at the East Ridgelawn Mausoleum in Clifton will follow.
Barbara Ann Descarfino (nee Levich), age 61 of Forest Lakes in Byram Township, New Jersey died peacefully on Thursday, September 08, 2011.
Barbara grew up in Clifton and graduated from Clifton High School with the class of 1967. It was right around that time when one of her school mates saw her at the Dairy Queen in Garfield and invited her to join him at the Clifton High School football game. Phil Descarfino felt like the luckiest guy in Clifton that day, as he cruised to the game in his Pontiac GTO with his new girlfriend. They were married on April 13, 1969 and enjoyed a honeymoon at Elbow Beach, Bermuda. There were more than three hundred newlywed couples there, all of which had been waiting for Lent to end so they could get married, including Barbara and Phil.
They first settled in Lyndhurst, then Clifton, before moving to Forest Lakes in Byram Township in 1977. Together they raised their daughter Christine there. Their family was complete with the addition of their faithful cats; Mugsy and Daisy.
Barbara had worked for Nabisco in East Hanover for a period of about ten years, retiring in 1988. She had been a secretary there, and also worked in the retail shop.
During their marriage, Barbara and Phil vacationed regularly to the Bahamas, Florida, Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Thomas, and many more fabulous destinations. Barbara’s favorite place to visit, above all the others, was the Stroudsmoor Country Inn in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. With her Parkinson’s Disease advancing in recent years, the Stroudsmoor Inn was one of the few destinations she could still travel to and each time she left to come home, she would shed a tear imagining that it just might be her last time there.
Barbara enjoyed her home too and she was an excellent cook of both Italian and Slovakian foods. Her husband was a skilled gardener and he kept her supplied with plenty of fresh ingredients. On a few occasions he grew so much zucchini that she baked zucchini bread until it seemed to be up to their ears, but it was delicious none the less. She would always be feeding her family well and at Christmas time she would bake her famous cookies to share with everyone.
Her life changed with the arrival of her granddaughter, Emily Rose. Emily brought endless smiles to Barbara’s face and Barbara spoiled her at every turn. She simply adored her beautiful Emily Rose and there’s no question that her granddaughter brought her much needed strength and energy during her long struggle with Parkinson’s. Emily Rose was truly the light of her life for the past several years and brought her much needed joy.
Barbara is survived by her loving husband of forty two years; Philip, her daughter; Christine Bradford and her husband Brian of Oak Ridge, NJ, her granddaughter Emily Rose Bradford, two brothers; Thomas Levich of Wayne and Robert Levich of Las Vegas, Nevada, her aunt Marge Potosnack of Clifton, three devoted sister-in-laws; Joanne Gross and her husband Steven of Florida, Maryann Descarfino of Clifton, and Deborah Sessa and her husband Richard of Roseland, and her nephews and niece.
Donations in Barbara’s memory to support Parkinson’s disease research would be greatly appreciated. Please consider the National Parkinson Foundation, Gift Processing Center, PO Box 5018, Hagerstown, MD 21741-5018 or visit www.parkinson.org
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