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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Mausoleum, Totowa.
Charles Olivo, aged 93, of Wayne passed peacefully on Friday, March 13,2015.
He was born and raised in Passaic and lived there before moving to Wayne in 1957.
As a young boy of just eight years old he worked for the neighbors who owned LaPerla Foods in Passaic. He took vegetables they imported and boxed them for resale. Charles later found work at the General Motors Corporation in Linden where he worked as a foreman. Eventually he found work as a mason and plasterer, work he loved and would do for the rest of his life. Initially he worked for Local #2, Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers out of Paterson having later opened his own company R&O Plastering of Wayne. He enjoyed his work and considered it more of a hobby than work. Charles worked continuously on projects until he was about 80 years old, stopping because his health.
It was during his tenure at General Motors in Linden that he met his future wife, Mary Spinelli. The auto plant in Linden was transformed into an aircraft manufacturing facility during WWII and Mary was a “Rosie the Riveter” in the real sense of the phrase. Her job at the plant was riveting the planes together. They fell in love and married on June 25, 1944 at Saint Anthony’s RC Church in Elizabeth and honeymooned at Niagara Falls, NY. They had 57 years of a loving and devoted marriage until Mary’s passing on February 2, 2002.
Charles was an active parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church for many years. He was the mason who constructed the outdoor shrine of the Blessed Mother, and helped renovate the rectory during the years the late Msgr. James Rugel was the parish pastor. He also was a volunteer at the food tent at the church’s annual carnival. His dedication to his Catholic faith was also demonstrated by his membership of the Knights of Columbus Council #3801 in Pompton Lakes where he was a 3rd Degree Knight.
He will be remembered as a man who was dedicated and devoted to his family. When he was growing up in Passaic his parents, grand-parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins all lived within about a single mile of each other. Considering he was the third born of eight children, and with all the extended family so close by, family gatherings were important events. Family was very important to Charles as were his friends.
Charles was the loving husband of fifty-seven years to the late Mary Olivo (February 2, 2002); beloved father of Nancy Garofalo and her husband James of Wayne, John Olivo and his wife Adeline of Wayne; cherished grandfather of John, Charles, Daniel, Nicholas, and Michael Olivo, Lisa, Danielle, and William Garofalo; much loved great-grandfather of Mia, Nina, Anthony James, Giovanni, Luca, Robert Olivo, and James Byrne; dear brother of Angelina Lano of Elmwood Park, Norma Tamborini of Lodi, and Edith Folena and her husband Bruce of Barnegat, and brother of the late Josephine Princiotti, Louis Olivo, and Marie Raspa.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 or the CUMAC Food Pantry, PO Box 2721, Paterson, NJ 07509 would be appreciated.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Mausoleum, Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-8 PM on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 8:45 AM on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 from the funeral home then to Our Lady of the Valley RC Church, 630 Valley Road, Wayne where a 10 AM Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will be in Holy Sepulchre Mausoleum, Totowa.
Charles Olivo, aged 93, of Wayne passed peacefully on Friday, March 13,2015.
He was born and raised in Passaic and lived there before moving to Wayne in 1957.
As a young boy of just eight years old he worked for the neighbors who owned LaPerla Foods in Passaic. He took vegetables they imported and boxed them for resale. Charles later found work at the General Motors Corporation in Linden where he worked as a foreman. Eventually he found work as a mason and plasterer, work he loved and would do for the rest of his life. Initially he worked for Local #2, Bricklayers, Masons, and Plasterers out of Paterson having later opened his own company R&O Plastering of Wayne. He enjoyed his work and considered it more of a hobby than work. Charles worked continuously on projects until he was about 80 years old, stopping because his health.
It was during his tenure at General Motors in Linden that he met his future wife, Mary Spinelli. The auto plant in Linden was transformed into an aircraft manufacturing facility during WWII and Mary was a “Rosie the Riveter” in the real sense of the phrase. Her job at the plant was riveting the planes together. They fell in love and married on June 25, 1944 at Saint Anthony’s RC Church in Elizabeth and honeymooned at Niagara Falls, NY. They had 57 years of a loving and devoted marriage until Mary’s passing on February 2, 2002.
Charles was an active parishioner of Our Lady of the Valley RC Church for many years. He was the mason who constructed the outdoor shrine of the Blessed Mother, and helped renovate the rectory during the years the late Msgr. James Rugel was the parish pastor. He also was a volunteer at the food tent at the church’s annual carnival. His dedication to his Catholic faith was also demonstrated by his membership of the Knights of Columbus Council #3801 in Pompton Lakes where he was a 3rd Degree Knight.
He will be remembered as a man who was dedicated and devoted to his family. When he was growing up in Passaic his parents, grand-parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins all lived within about a single mile of each other. Considering he was the third born of eight children, and with all the extended family so close by, family gatherings were important events. Family was very important to Charles as were his friends.
Charles was the loving husband of fifty-seven years to the late Mary Olivo (February 2, 2002); beloved father of Nancy Garofalo and her husband James of Wayne, John Olivo and his wife Adeline of Wayne; cherished grandfather of John, Charles, Daniel, Nicholas, and Michael Olivo, Lisa, Danielle, and William Garofalo; much loved great-grandfather of Mia, Nina, Anthony James, Giovanni, Luca, Robert Olivo, and James Byrne; dear brother of Angelina Lano of Elmwood Park, Norma Tamborini of Lodi, and Edith Folena and her husband Bruce of Barnegat, and brother of the late Josephine Princiotti, Louis Olivo, and Marie Raspa.
In lieu of flowers memorial donations to the Wayne First Aid Squad, PO Box 2004, Wayne, NJ 07474 or the CUMAC Food Pantry, PO Box 2721, Paterson, NJ 07509 would be appreciated.
To view photos of a life well-lived please click here
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