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January 18, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 9:15 AM from the funeral home, then to the Cathedral of Saint Michael The Archangel, 96 First Street, Passaic, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at St. Michael's Cemetery, South Hackensack.
Celia H. Glagola, age 99, of Wayne and formerly of Elmwood Park, passed into eternal rest on Saturday, January 18, 2014, just ten days before her one-hundredth birthday.
Celia was born in Passaic and grew up in Garfield. She was the oldest child of Adam and Cornelia (nee Kowalska) Czop and she had three younger brothers: John, Walter and Frank.
She enjoyed a happy childhood attending St. Joseph's Grammar School in Passaic and helping out in her father's foundry business where she developed a keen business sense of her own. As a child, one of her favorite activities was taking rides in the family car. Back then, it wasn't the norm for folks to have cars and her family's car had to be cranked with a real old-fashioned crank to start it up!
On Celia's regular walks to school, she would frequently see a truck from a baby store pass her by. She wasn't really interested in the truck, but the handsome driver caught her eye! Years later, when she went to the lake with her cousins, she got the chance to meet the driver of that truck. His name was Mike Glagola and the story is told that she tried on his ring that day and never gave it back! Mike and Celia were united in marriage on June 19, 1937 at St. Joseph's Church in Passaic. They honeymooned in Green Pond then made their first home together as newlyweds in Mike's parent's house in Garfield. A year later, in 1938, they moved across town to live with Celia's parents and they stayed in that home until 1962. During that time, Celia and Mike were blessed with their two children: Michael and Arlene. In 1962 they moved to Elmwood Park and enjoyed many happy times there until Mike's passing in 1978. Celia remained in Elmwood Park until 1998 when she was welcomed into the loving home of her daughter Arlene and husband George in Wayne.
Celia found great joy in being a homemaker, wife and mother. While Mike went to work, Celia's managed things on the home front! She was wise and helpful in guiding her children through adolescence into adulthood, always ready with advice about career paths they might want to consider. When they were grown and married, blessing her with grandchildren, she embraced being a grandmother, spending lots of time with her granddaughter Jennifer, taking care of her while Arlene was working, being a second mom, taking Jennifer to dance school and the park, teaching her how to roller skate, bake pies and cook. She equally enjoyed spending time with her son Mike's three children, visiting them in Richmond, Virginia. Celia invested herself in the lives of her son and daughter and all her grandchildren. She proudly was there for every one of their eighth grade, high school, and college graduations.
In her spare time, Celia loved baking apple and blueberry pies, knitting mittens, sweaters and even complete outfits for her family, reading novels - especially ones by Danielle Steel, or just staying up late to watch a movie on the Late Late Show. Sometimes she liked to cut up, being goofy with her daughter Arlene and granddaughter Jennifer doing silly dances in leotards together, but she also had a sophisticated elegance, always dressing with class.
Celia will be fondly remembered for the quiet, loving, warm, kind, patient and understanding woman that she was. She loved the company of family and for that, she will be greatly missed. She was always there when you needed her.
Surviving to mourn her loss is her dear daughter Arlene Zanias and husband George of Wayne; her dear son Michael, Sr. and wife Hannelore of Richmond, VA; her three adored grandchildren: Peter Glagola and wife Ariane, Michael Glagola, Jr. and wife Cristy, and Jennifer Zanias; her five cherished great-grandchildren: Alexandra, Adam, Clara, Jack and Henry; and her loving nieces and nephews.
Celia was predeceased by her beloved husband Michael in 1978, her adored granddaughter Karen Glagola Roberts in 2010, and her three brothers, John, Walter and Frank Czop.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Celia's name are asked to consider the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 (www.stjude.org) or the Cathedral of Saint Michael The Archangel.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 9:15 AM from the funeral home, then to the Cathedral of Saint Michael The Archangel, 96 First Street, Passaic, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at St. Michael's Cemetery, South Hackensack.
January 18, 2014
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at 9:15 AM from the funeral home, then to the Cathedral of Saint Michael The Archangel, 96 First Street, Passaic, where at 10:30 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Interment will follow at St. Michael's Cemetery, South Hackensack.
Celia H. Glagola, age 99, of Wayne and formerly of Elmwood Park, passed into eternal rest on Saturday, January 18, 2014, just ten days before her one-hundredth birthday.
Celia was born in Passaic and grew up in Garfield. She was the oldest child of Adam and Cornelia (nee Kowalska) Czop and she had three younger brothers: John, Walter and Frank.
She enjoyed a happy childhood attending St. Joseph's Grammar School in Passaic and helping out in her father's foundry business where she developed a keen business sense of her own. As a child, one of her favorite activities was taking rides in the family car. Back then, it wasn't the norm for folks to have cars and her family's car had to be cranked with a real old-fashioned crank to start it up!
On Celia's regular walks to school, she would frequently see a truck from a baby store pass her by. She wasn't really interested in the truck, but the handsome driver caught her eye! Years later, when she went to the lake with her cousins, she got the chance to meet the driver of that truck. His name was Mike Glagola and the story is told that she tried on his ring that day and never gave it back! Mike and Celia were united in marriage on June 19, 1937 at St. Joseph's Church in Passaic. They honeymooned in Green Pond then made their first home together as newlyweds in Mike's parent's house in Garfield. A year later, in 1938, they moved across town to live with Celia's parents and they stayed in that home until 1962. During that time, Celia and Mike were blessed with their two children: Michael and Arlene. In 1962 they moved to Elmwood Park and enjoyed many happy times there until Mike's passing in 1978. Celia remained in Elmwood Park until 1998 when she was welcomed into the loving home of her daughter Arlene and husband George in Wayne.
Celia found great joy in being a homemaker, wife and mother. While Mike went to work, Celia's managed things on the home front! She was wise and helpful in guiding her children through adolescence into adulthood, always ready with advice about career paths they might want to consider. When they were grown and married, blessing her with grandchildren, she embraced being a grandmother, spending lots of time with her granddaughter Jennifer, taking care of her while Arlene was working, being a second mom, taking Jennifer to dance school and the park, teaching her how to roller skate, bake pies and cook. She equally enjoyed spending time with her son Mike's three children, visiting them in Richmond, Virginia. Celia invested herself in the lives of her son and daughter and all her grandchildren. She proudly was there for every one of their eighth grade, high school, and college graduations.
In her spare time, Celia loved baking apple and blueberry pies, knitting mittens, sweaters and even complete outfits for her family, reading novels - especially ones by Danielle Steel, or just staying up late to watch a movie on the Late Late Show. Sometimes she liked to cut up, being goofy with her daughter Arlene and granddaughter Jennifer doing silly dances in leotards together, but she also had a sophisticated elegance, always dressing with class.
Celia will be fondly remembered for the quiet, loving, warm, kind, patient and understanding woman that she was. She loved the company of family and for that, she will be greatly missed. She was always there when you needed her.
Surviving to mourn her loss is her dear daughter Arlene Zanias and husband George of Wayne; her dear son Michael, Sr. and wife Hannelore of Richmond, VA; her three adored grandchildren: Peter Glagola and wife Ariane, Michael Glagola, Jr. and wife Cristy, and Jennifer Zanias; her five cherished great-grandchildren: Alexandra, Adam, Clara, Jack and Henry; and her loving nieces and nephews.
Celia was predeceased by her beloved husband Michael in 1978, her adored granddaughter Karen Glagola Roberts in 2010, and her three brothers, John, Walter and Frank Czop.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Celia's name are asked to consider the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, P.O Box 1000, Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142 (www.stjude.org) or the Cathedral of Saint Michael The Archangel.
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