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January 31, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, February 6, 2009 at 10 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Benjamin Colavita age 94 of Toms River on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at Community Hospital’s Van Dyke Hospice while receiving the loving care of his family. He had lived a full and wonderful life and it was time for God to call him peacefully home.
He was born on Cedar Street in Paterson at home. It was the custom of that day mother’s delivered their babies at home. He lived many years in Hawthorne before moving to Toms River thirty years ago.
Ben spent his formative years in Paterson and, as was the economic atmosphere, of the day as soon as he was able he went to work to help support his family.
He was a parishioner of Saint Maximilian Kolbe RC Church in Toms River and previously he had been a member of Saint Anthony’s RC Church in Paterson and while living in Hawthorne Saint Anthony’s RC Church in Hawthorne.
He was a truck driver for Union Local 560 in Union City and was a hard worker.
Ben was gifted with an extraverted personality and was always active socially playing cards, challenging folks to a good game of pool at which he was especially adept. He loved to go deep sea fishing and to the beach. By nature he was very popular with the ladies and loved to dance. He also served on the volunteer staff at Community Hospital in Toms River.
He leaves his family with many fond memories of a wonderfully dedicated husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and a good provider for his family.
Dad was at a social gathering in 1936 and met Anna Mikuska who soon became his bride. They had sixty-three years of “loving marriage” together until Anna’s passing in 1999.
Surviving are one son Joseph Colavita and his wife Angela of Wayne; two daughters Barbara Donohue and her husband Tom of Doylestown, Pennsylvania and Marlene DeGennaro of West Milford; eight grandchildren Michael Colavita, Christine Hawn, Melissa Escudero, Karen Connolly, Thomas Donohue, Lorie Tolchinsky, Stephen and Michael DeGennaro and four great grandchildren Allison and Erin Connolly, Ethan Hawn and Lila Tolchinsky.
Ben was the last survivor of a family of eight children. His brother Frank Colavita, sisters Nancy Mingione, Frances Schwartz, Rose Ballelli, Nellie DePhillips, Lucy Gannelli and Josephine Buckman all predeceased him.
Those wishing to make a donation in memory of Benjamin Colavita are asked to consider The St. Jude's Childrens Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place Memphis, Tennessee 38105-2729
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Funeral services will be held Friday, February 6, 2009 at 10 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
January 31, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Friday, February 6, 2009 at 10 AM from the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne then to Our Lady of Consolation RC Church, Wayne where at 11 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Thursday from 2-4, 7-9 PM.
Benjamin Colavita age 94 of Toms River on Saturday, January 31, 2009 at Community Hospital’s Van Dyke Hospice while receiving the loving care of his family. He had lived a full and wonderful life and it was time for God to call him peacefully home.
He was born on Cedar Street in Paterson at home. It was the custom of that day mother’s delivered their babies at home. He lived many years in Hawthorne before moving to Toms River thirty years ago.
Ben spent his formative years in Paterson and, as was the economic atmosphere, of the day as soon as he was able he went to work to help support his family.
He was a parishioner of Saint Maximilian Kolbe RC Church in Toms River and previously he had been a member of Saint Anthony’s RC Church in Paterson and while living in Hawthorne Saint Anthony’s RC Church in Hawthorne.
He was a truck driver for Union Local 560 in Union City and was a hard worker.
Ben was gifted with an extraverted personality and was always active socially playing cards, challenging folks to a good game of pool at which he was especially adept. He loved to go deep sea fishing and to the beach. By nature he was very popular with the ladies and loved to dance. He also served on the volunteer staff at Community Hospital in Toms River.
He leaves his family with many fond memories of a wonderfully dedicated husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and a good provider for his family.
Dad was at a social gathering in 1936 and met Anna Mikuska who soon became his bride. They had sixty-three years of “loving marriage” together until Anna’s passing in 1999.
Surviving are one son Joseph Colavita and his wife Angela of Wayne; two daughters Barbara Donohue and her husband Tom of Doylestown, Pennsylvania and Marlene DeGennaro of West Milford; eight grandchildren Michael Colavita, Christine Hawn, Melissa Escudero, Karen Connolly, Thomas Donohue, Lorie Tolchinsky, Stephen and Michael DeGennaro and four great grandchildren Allison and Erin Connolly, Ethan Hawn and Lila Tolchinsky.
Ben was the last survivor of a family of eight children. His brother Frank Colavita, sisters Nancy Mingione, Frances Schwartz, Rose Ballelli, Nellie DePhillips, Lucy Gannelli and Josephine Buckman all predeceased him.
Those wishing to make a donation in memory of Benjamin Colavita are asked to consider The St. Jude's Childrens Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place Memphis, Tennessee 38105-2729
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