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July 19, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, July 22, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 9:00 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation R.C. Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, where at 10:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Ciriaco Sabia, age 84 died peacefully on Friday, July 19, 2013.
Ciriaco was born in Serino, Italy. He grew up and went to school with a sweet girl named Giuseppa Rizzo. They married on August 13, 1950 in their hometown of Serino. Following marriage Ciriaco moved to Venezuela where he worked for three years before coming back to his hometown in Italy. Soon after his return Ciriaco and Giuseppa were blessed with a son whom they named Carmine and then a daughter whom they named Laura.
In 1963, Ciriaco and Giuseppa and the children joined his parents and two brothers in the United States. They settled in Paterson and Ciriaco quickly took a job as a machine operator in one of the many dye houses that were so prevalent in Paterson in that day. Ciriaco faithfully provided for his family working as a machine operator for 31 years until retiring in 1994 at the age of 65 from Baltic Dye Company of Passaic.
In 1991, Ciriaco and Giuseppa moved to Wayne where he remained until the present. He loved tending to and enjoying the big vegetable garden that he kept in the back yard. If there was a vegetable, Ciriaco grew it – beans, peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, carrots, pumpkins to name a few! He and some of his fellow gardening friends would get together and compare the tomatoes that they grew. Eventually they began to playfully refer to themselves as the “Tomato Club.” Besides his wife, family and garden, Ciriaco also loved making wine. He’d go buy the grapes at the local fruit stands on Railroad Avenue in Paterson and typically, he made about two barrels a year. Like his tomatoes, he and his friends would “fight” for best-wine bragging rights. In later years, through the magic of cable television, Ciriaco enjoyed watching Italian programs.
Surviving are his beloved wife of almost 63 years, Giuseppa; his son Carmine Sabia and wife Joanne of Wayne and his daughter Laura Simonelli also of Wayne; his four grandchildren: Michael, Robert, Jaclynn and Diana; and his two brothers: Giuseppe Sabia and wife Christina of Wayne and Antonio Sabia and wife Maria of Totowa.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Ciriaco’s name are asked to consider the National Kidney Foundation, 30 East 33rd Street, New York, NY 10016 (www.kidney.org).
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Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, July 22, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 9:00 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation R.C. Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, where at 10:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
July 19, 2013
Services
Friends may visit with the family at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne, on Monday, July 22, 2013 from 2-4 & 7-9 PM.
Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 9:00 AM from the funeral home, then to Our Lady of Consolation R.C. Church, 1799 Hamburg Turnpike, Wayne, where at 10:00 AM a Funeral Mass will be offered. Entombment will follow at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Totowa.
Ciriaco Sabia, age 84 died peacefully on Friday, July 19, 2013.
Ciriaco was born in Serino, Italy. He grew up and went to school with a sweet girl named Giuseppa Rizzo. They married on August 13, 1950 in their hometown of Serino. Following marriage Ciriaco moved to Venezuela where he worked for three years before coming back to his hometown in Italy. Soon after his return Ciriaco and Giuseppa were blessed with a son whom they named Carmine and then a daughter whom they named Laura.
In 1963, Ciriaco and Giuseppa and the children joined his parents and two brothers in the United States. They settled in Paterson and Ciriaco quickly took a job as a machine operator in one of the many dye houses that were so prevalent in Paterson in that day. Ciriaco faithfully provided for his family working as a machine operator for 31 years until retiring in 1994 at the age of 65 from Baltic Dye Company of Passaic.
In 1991, Ciriaco and Giuseppa moved to Wayne where he remained until the present. He loved tending to and enjoying the big vegetable garden that he kept in the back yard. If there was a vegetable, Ciriaco grew it – beans, peppers, zucchini, cucumbers, carrots, pumpkins to name a few! He and some of his fellow gardening friends would get together and compare the tomatoes that they grew. Eventually they began to playfully refer to themselves as the “Tomato Club.” Besides his wife, family and garden, Ciriaco also loved making wine. He’d go buy the grapes at the local fruit stands on Railroad Avenue in Paterson and typically, he made about two barrels a year. Like his tomatoes, he and his friends would “fight” for best-wine bragging rights. In later years, through the magic of cable television, Ciriaco enjoyed watching Italian programs.
Surviving are his beloved wife of almost 63 years, Giuseppa; his son Carmine Sabia and wife Joanne of Wayne and his daughter Laura Simonelli also of Wayne; his four grandchildren: Michael, Robert, Jaclynn and Diana; and his two brothers: Giuseppe Sabia and wife Christina of Wayne and Antonio Sabia and wife Maria of Totowa.
In lieu of flowers, those planning an expression of sympathy in Ciriaco’s name are asked to consider the National Kidney Foundation, 30 East 33rd Street, New York, NY 10016 (www.kidney.org).
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