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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 from 2-4 PM. A funeral service will be held at 4 PM on Saturday, immediately following the visiting hours.
Cheryl J. Giannetti (nee Conklin), age 49 of West Caldwell, died unexpectedly on Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. She had resided in Wayne before moving to W. Caldwell in 1993.
Cheryl had worked as a dispatcher for Metropolitan Trucking of Rochelle Park and later with Frederick Trucking of Paterson. More recently, she had worked at the Home Depot in Parsippany.
Cheryl grew up in Wayne and had graduated from Wayne Hills High School in 1984. She had a lot of fun times as a ‘flag twirler’ with the Wayne Hills Marching Band. Of course, Cheryl had fun just about everywhere she went; excitement was never far from her. In 1993 she married Bob Giannetti and although their marriage ended in divorce, she loved him dearly. They traveled often to Boca Raton where she could enjoy the beach, she loved Key West, and the Sea Shell on LBI was another favorite destination of theirs. She hosted Christmas Eve for many years at her home in West Caldwell. She was a very good cook, but she didn’t start out that way. No one would let her forget the “Peanut Butter Chicken” she prepared many years ago. It was so awful that it has remained as a running joke for more than twenty years among her family. Cheryl also loved to garden and she always had vegetables and flowers growing in her yard. In particular, she had a canna plant that her mother had divided and given to her years ago that she continued to grow year after year.
Cheryl was predeceased by her mother Joan Conklin in 2013 and is survived by her two sisters; Kathleen Shepard and her husband Michael of Wyckoff, Mindy Watts and her husband Rob of Lake Hopatcong, one brother; Bill Conklin and his wife Stephanie of Wayne, her Aunt Kathy and Uncle Bruce of Bloomingdale, many nieces and nephews, and her former husband; Robert Giannetti of West Caldwell.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Cheryl’s memory would be appreciated. Please consider the Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake Dr. W., Wayne, NJ, 07470, www.laurelwoodarboretum.org, or Phoenix House Foundation, 164 West 74th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10023, www.phoenixhouse.org.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 from 2-4 PM. A funeral service will be held at 4 PM on Saturday, immediately following the visiting hours.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 from 2-4 PM. A funeral service will be held at 4 PM on Saturday, immediately following the visiting hours.
Cheryl J. Giannetti (nee Conklin), age 49 of West Caldwell, died unexpectedly on Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. She had resided in Wayne before moving to W. Caldwell in 1993.
Cheryl had worked as a dispatcher for Metropolitan Trucking of Rochelle Park and later with Frederick Trucking of Paterson. More recently, she had worked at the Home Depot in Parsippany.
Cheryl grew up in Wayne and had graduated from Wayne Hills High School in 1984. She had a lot of fun times as a ‘flag twirler’ with the Wayne Hills Marching Band. Of course, Cheryl had fun just about everywhere she went; excitement was never far from her. In 1993 she married Bob Giannetti and although their marriage ended in divorce, she loved him dearly. They traveled often to Boca Raton where she could enjoy the beach, she loved Key West, and the Sea Shell on LBI was another favorite destination of theirs. She hosted Christmas Eve for many years at her home in West Caldwell. She was a very good cook, but she didn’t start out that way. No one would let her forget the “Peanut Butter Chicken” she prepared many years ago. It was so awful that it has remained as a running joke for more than twenty years among her family. Cheryl also loved to garden and she always had vegetables and flowers growing in her yard. In particular, she had a canna plant that her mother had divided and given to her years ago that she continued to grow year after year.
Cheryl was predeceased by her mother Joan Conklin in 2013 and is survived by her two sisters; Kathleen Shepard and her husband Michael of Wyckoff, Mindy Watts and her husband Rob of Lake Hopatcong, one brother; Bill Conklin and his wife Stephanie of Wayne, her Aunt Kathy and Uncle Bruce of Bloomingdale, many nieces and nephews, and her former husband; Robert Giannetti of West Caldwell.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Cheryl’s memory would be appreciated. Please consider the Laurelwood Arboretum, 725 Pines Lake Dr. W., Wayne, NJ, 07470, www.laurelwoodarboretum.org, or Phoenix House Foundation, 164 West 74th Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10023, www.phoenixhouse.org.
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