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Carolyn Catherine Deni, age 108 of Cedar Grove and formerly of New York City, was born in Hebron Ct. on Jan. 20, 1907. Her parents, Maria (Noto) and Pasquale Deni, emigrated from Sicily. Carolyn was the eldest of their nine children.
The family moved to Holyoke, MA shortly after Carolyn’s birth, where she lived and worked until she moved in the 1950's to Manhattan. She occupied her studio apartment at Tudor City until she was 99 years old.
While in Manhattan, Carolyn worked as a department store buyer and a sales representative for a stationary distributor. She was passionate about oil and water color painting and enjoyed music, but her lifelong love was following women’s fashion. She was fond of wearing leopard prints and accessorizing with a wardrobe of hats and scarves. Her Catholic faith was of primary importance to her, and she attended mass daily.
During the last nine years of her life, Carolyn happily resided at St. Vincent’s Nursing Home in Cedar Grove, NJ where she was much loved and well cared for. She was known to all as “Shoo-Shoo Baby” and “the lady with the hats.” She won many St. Vincent’s talent contests with enthusiastic renditions of her signature song, Darktown Strutters’ Ball.
She was predeceased by her parents and all siblings, and leaves behind several nieces and nephews, as well as members of her “adopted” family of close friends and caregivers. She will be laid to rest in Holyoke, MA. at a private service.
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Carolyn Catherine Deni, age 108 of Cedar Grove and formerly of New York City, was born in Hebron Ct. on Jan. 20, 1907. Her parents, Maria (Noto) and Pasquale Deni, emigrated from Sicily. Carolyn was the eldest of their nine children.
The family moved to Holyoke, MA shortly after Carolyn’s birth, where she lived and worked until she moved in the 1950's to Manhattan. She occupied her studio apartment at Tudor City until she was 99 years old.
While in Manhattan, Carolyn worked as a department store buyer and a sales representative for a stationary distributor. She was passionate about oil and water color painting and enjoyed music, but her lifelong love was following women’s fashion. She was fond of wearing leopard prints and accessorizing with a wardrobe of hats and scarves. Her Catholic faith was of primary importance to her, and she attended mass daily.
During the last nine years of her life, Carolyn happily resided at St. Vincent’s Nursing Home in Cedar Grove, NJ where she was much loved and well cared for. She was known to all as “Shoo-Shoo Baby” and “the lady with the hats.” She won many St. Vincent’s talent contests with enthusiastic renditions of her signature song, Darktown Strutters’ Ball.
She was predeceased by her parents and all siblings, and leaves behind several nieces and nephews, as well as members of her “adopted” family of close friends and caregivers. She will be laid to rest in Holyoke, MA. at a private service.
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