Claire Macaluso

Claire Macaluso, age 91, of Wayne, passed Sunday, February 5, 2023.

She was born to Dominick and Rose Crudele at the family home on Van Riper Avenue in Clifton where she was also raised. Claire graduated from Clifton High School with the Class of 1949.  She has lived in Wayne for the past sixty years.

Claire met her future husband Pasquale Macaluso when they were just children.  They eventually fell in love and married on June 20, 1954.  When Claire and Pasquale first married they lived in a two family home on Sheridan Avenue in Clifton where her parents lived downstairs and they lived upstairs. They moved to Wayne in 1963 and have lived there ever since. 

Claire was dedicated to her Catholic faith and was a founding parishioner of Our Lady of Consolation Church in Wayne.

For many years Claire was the School Nurse at the Ryerson Elementary School in Wayne. When she retired from nursing she continued to volunteer at the school for several more years.

Claire was very social and enjoyed lunch trips out with friends, reading novels, watching movies on the Lifetime Channel, and was always watching the news. For many years she enjoyed traveling and has been to destinations at the Jersey Shore, the Carolinas, Italy, and Puerto Rico to name a few.

She was the loving wife of the late Pasquale Macaluso (d. 2001); devoted mother of Robert Macaluso of Wayne, and the late Diane D’Angelo (d. 2008) and her surviving husband Gregory of Branchburg.  She was predeceased by her siblings Emily, Josephine, Violet, and Louis.