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Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, June 9, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Friday, June 10 from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Urban Club Rd., Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa.
Christine Ann Ciarlo (nee Miele), age 85 of Wayne, died peacefully on Saturday, June 4, 2016. She had been a resident of Wayne since 1964 and was well known due to her many years as a ‘lunch lady’ at Anthony Wayne and Schuyler Colfax middle schools.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, she moved to Passaic with her family as a young girl. She graduated from Passaic High School and soon thereafter met Carmine Ciarlo, a handsome Navy veteran, on a blind date. They dated for a few years before marrying on April 26, 1954 at St. Anthony’s RC Church, Passaic, followed by a car ride down to Miami Beach, Florida for their honeymoon. They settled in Bloomfield for a brief while, and then moved to Wayne in 1964. They had a “great” marriage that included ‘date night’ every Saturday, summers at Seaside Park, NJ, and many traditional Italian dinners on Sunday night at their house. They enjoyed more than thirty two years together before Carmine’s untimely passing in 1986.
Family was a priority to Christine and Sunday was always a special day where she would make homemade gravy and everyone would gather for dinner. She also enjoyed watching her favorite soap operas on TV, tending to her flower garden, and, of course, shopping! Shopping was among one of her favorite pastimes and walking was her favorite form of exercise – so enjoying long walks throughout all the stores in the mall made for a perfect day in her book! She loved talking too and often had friends over just to talk. Her sister Terry was her best friend and they seemed inseparable. Sadly, when Terry passed in 2009, Christine’s grief weighed heavy on her heart and she has missed her sister terribly ever since.
Several years after Carmine’s passing, Christine met Jim Boncore at a widower’s group and the two of them were blessed with a very close companionship for nearly ten years before Jim passed. Jim was a good man who brought happiness back to Christine’s heart. She devoted herself to being a fulltime grandmother after Jim died, and she loved every minute spent with her grandchildren. Naturally, time spent shopping for them was high on her list, or taking them to her favorite restaurant, China Paradise in Wayne, where she invariably ordered the pu-pu platter. Her family will surely cherish those special times with her forever, and they will miss her dearly.
Christine is survived by her three children; Patricia Allegretto of Wayne, Robert Ciarlo and his wife Krista of Little Falls, and Kim Petty and her husband Guy of Morganville, five grandchildren; Daniel, Christina, Alicia, Matthew, and Sophia, her brother; James Miele and his wife Linda of Irvine, CA, and nieces and nephews; David, Suzanne, James, Jason, PJ, Barbara, and Ralph. She was predeceased by her husband Carmine in 1986 and by her sister Theresa “Terry” Orrico in 2009.
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, June 9, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Friday, June 10 from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Urban Club Rd., Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa.
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Thursday, June 9, 2016 from 4-8 PM.
Funeral Services will be held at 9 AM on Friday, June 10 from the funeral home, then to Annunciation RC Church, Urban Club Rd., Wayne, where at 10 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Burial will follow at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Totowa.
Christine Ann Ciarlo (nee Miele), age 85 of Wayne, died peacefully on Saturday, June 4, 2016. She had been a resident of Wayne since 1964 and was well known due to her many years as a ‘lunch lady’ at Anthony Wayne and Schuyler Colfax middle schools.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, she moved to Passaic with her family as a young girl. She graduated from Passaic High School and soon thereafter met Carmine Ciarlo, a handsome Navy veteran, on a blind date. They dated for a few years before marrying on April 26, 1954 at St. Anthony’s RC Church, Passaic, followed by a car ride down to Miami Beach, Florida for their honeymoon. They settled in Bloomfield for a brief while, and then moved to Wayne in 1964. They had a “great” marriage that included ‘date night’ every Saturday, summers at Seaside Park, NJ, and many traditional Italian dinners on Sunday night at their house. They enjoyed more than thirty two years together before Carmine’s untimely passing in 1986.
Family was a priority to Christine and Sunday was always a special day where she would make homemade gravy and everyone would gather for dinner. She also enjoyed watching her favorite soap operas on TV, tending to her flower garden, and, of course, shopping! Shopping was among one of her favorite pastimes and walking was her favorite form of exercise – so enjoying long walks throughout all the stores in the mall made for a perfect day in her book! She loved talking too and often had friends over just to talk. Her sister Terry was her best friend and they seemed inseparable. Sadly, when Terry passed in 2009, Christine’s grief weighed heavy on her heart and she has missed her sister terribly ever since.
Several years after Carmine’s passing, Christine met Jim Boncore at a widower’s group and the two of them were blessed with a very close companionship for nearly ten years before Jim passed. Jim was a good man who brought happiness back to Christine’s heart. She devoted herself to being a fulltime grandmother after Jim died, and she loved every minute spent with her grandchildren. Naturally, time spent shopping for them was high on her list, or taking them to her favorite restaurant, China Paradise in Wayne, where she invariably ordered the pu-pu platter. Her family will surely cherish those special times with her forever, and they will miss her dearly.
Christine is survived by her three children; Patricia Allegretto of Wayne, Robert Ciarlo and his wife Krista of Little Falls, and Kim Petty and her husband Guy of Morganville, five grandchildren; Daniel, Christina, Alicia, Matthew, and Sophia, her brother; James Miele and his wife Linda of Irvine, CA, and nieces and nephews; David, Suzanne, James, Jason, PJ, Barbara, and Ralph. She was predeceased by her husband Carmine in 1986 and by her sister Theresa “Terry” Orrico in 2009.
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