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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM from the funeral home on Thursday, March 17, 2016 then to Saint Marys RC Church, 19 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Bessie Chianese, age 96, of Wayne passed Saturday, March 12, 2016.
She was born in the Manhattan, New York on 102nd Street and raised on Wheeler Avenue in the Bronx. She graduated from Saint Helena’s High School in the Bronx with the Class of 1937.
Bessie met a cute man named Anthony Chianese through her father. Anthony would walk his dog past their home and he would stop and chat with her father. They married on April 13, 1941 at Blessed Sacrament Church in the Bronx. They honeymooned at the famed Mount Airey Lodge in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania and enjoyed fifty-two years of a loving and seemingly effortless marriage before Anthony’s passing in 1993.
In the early 1950’s Anthony bought property in the wilderness, according to those in the Bronx, known as Oakland, New Jersey. He, with the help of his brother’s, built a family home complete with a bomb shelter at 19 Pawnee Avenue in the township. They lived in Oakland, where they raised their daughter Rita. They then moved to Wayne for twelve years, before moving to Century Village in West Palm Beach, Florida for their retirement years. A few years after Anthony’s passing Bessie moved Wayne, New Jersey where she has lived with her daughter Rita for the last twenty years.
Bessie was a quiet, caring person who up until a week before her passing was completely self-sufficient. She enjoyed crocheting and knitting sweaters for family Christenings, reading Stephen King books, and kept her mind in tip top shape with word find books. She loved to cook and massive family meals at their Oakland home, where all Bessie and Anthony’s Bronx based family would gather on weekends and holidays, will forever be fondly remembered. Her special touch in the kitchen, where meatballs with raisins, braciola, artichokes, meat loaf, and pork chops were lovingly made, will be greatly missed. Bessie was always fastidious about her appearance, dressed to the 9’s, and had a standing Saturday hair appointment for as long as anyone can remember. She was blessed to have two cousins known within the family as aunt “Vi” and aunt “Geri” who were a huge part of Bessie’s life. They were both considered more like sisters than cousins to Bessie and will always be lovingly remembered. They would get together with Bessie and reminisce about the old days much to the delight of the rest of the family.
Bessie was the loving wife of the late Anthony Chianese (1993); devoted mother of Rita Carey of Wayne and her late husband William K Carey (1995); cherished grandmother of Robyn Vasquez, her husband Wilfredo, and their children Munson and Mason; much loved cousins Violet “Aunt Vi” Morano of Wayne, and Gilda “Aunt Geri” Dellaquila of North Haledon.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, 44 Middle Ave, second floor, Summit, NJ 07901 would be appreciated, www.komen.org.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM from the funeral home on Thursday, March 17, 2016 then to Saint Marys RC Church, 19 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:30 AM from the funeral home on Thursday, March 17, 2016 then to Saint Marys RC Church, 19 Pompton Ave., Pompton Lakes where a 9:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Interment will be in Christ the King Cemetery, Franklin Lakes.
Bessie Chianese, age 96, of Wayne passed Saturday, March 12, 2016.
She was born in the Manhattan, New York on 102nd Street and raised on Wheeler Avenue in the Bronx. She graduated from Saint Helena’s High School in the Bronx with the Class of 1937.
Bessie met a cute man named Anthony Chianese through her father. Anthony would walk his dog past their home and he would stop and chat with her father. They married on April 13, 1941 at Blessed Sacrament Church in the Bronx. They honeymooned at the famed Mount Airey Lodge in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania and enjoyed fifty-two years of a loving and seemingly effortless marriage before Anthony’s passing in 1993.
In the early 1950’s Anthony bought property in the wilderness, according to those in the Bronx, known as Oakland, New Jersey. He, with the help of his brother’s, built a family home complete with a bomb shelter at 19 Pawnee Avenue in the township. They lived in Oakland, where they raised their daughter Rita. They then moved to Wayne for twelve years, before moving to Century Village in West Palm Beach, Florida for their retirement years. A few years after Anthony’s passing Bessie moved Wayne, New Jersey where she has lived with her daughter Rita for the last twenty years.
Bessie was a quiet, caring person who up until a week before her passing was completely self-sufficient. She enjoyed crocheting and knitting sweaters for family Christenings, reading Stephen King books, and kept her mind in tip top shape with word find books. She loved to cook and massive family meals at their Oakland home, where all Bessie and Anthony’s Bronx based family would gather on weekends and holidays, will forever be fondly remembered. Her special touch in the kitchen, where meatballs with raisins, braciola, artichokes, meat loaf, and pork chops were lovingly made, will be greatly missed. Bessie was always fastidious about her appearance, dressed to the 9’s, and had a standing Saturday hair appointment for as long as anyone can remember. She was blessed to have two cousins known within the family as aunt “Vi” and aunt “Geri” who were a huge part of Bessie’s life. They were both considered more like sisters than cousins to Bessie and will always be lovingly remembered. They would get together with Bessie and reminisce about the old days much to the delight of the rest of the family.
Bessie was the loving wife of the late Anthony Chianese (1993); devoted mother of Rita Carey of Wayne and her late husband William K Carey (1995); cherished grandmother of Robyn Vasquez, her husband Wilfredo, and their children Munson and Mason; much loved cousins Violet “Aunt Vi” Morano of Wayne, and Gilda “Aunt Geri” Dellaquila of North Haledon.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, 44 Middle Ave, second floor, Summit, NJ 07901 would be appreciated, www.komen.org.
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